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Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX Get Release Dates
Disney has confirmed that Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX have a release dates. In the annual shareholders letter, CEO Bob Iger had this to say on the subject:
“As one of the few people allowed to visit the set during filming… and one of the fewer who’s seen most of the footage… I can assure the millions of ‘Star Wars’ fans who have spent the last decade hoping for a new movie this one will be worth the wait. And it’s only the beginning of a new era of exceptional ‘Star Wars’ storytelling; next year we’ll release our first standalone movie based on these characters, followed by ‘Star Wars: Episode VIII’ in 2017, and we’ll finish this trilogy with ‘Episode IX’ in 2019.”
For those of you counting at home, that is 2 years apart for each film, instead of the traditional 3 years. This is great news as I am significantly older now and far less patient.
Pretty much everyone by now knows and has heard Disney’s intention to release a Star Wars Film every year starting with Episode VII, with the first of these stand alone films coming at us December 16th, 2016. Still no word yet on what the Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) directed project will use for its subject matter. It should be noted that in the shareholder letter Iger said “this trilogy,” could it mean that one of the post Episode IX projects is a trilogy of some sort? Can we please get a Boba Fett trilogy…PLEASE?!
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Darren Schram is the manager extraordinaire of Sky High Comics in San Marcos, Ca. He started out reading GI Joe comics when he was a kid, moving on to collecting Star Wars comics exclusively, while reading the occasional title off the rack in a local drug store...just to "check in" with the comic world. Darren did a graceful high dive into the comic book pools deep end just over a decade ago. Now it isn't a question of what is he reading, but more..what isn't he reading? He is what he calls a "multi-denominational geek", with exceptional geek cred in Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica, that award him his self appointed elite status. He also once "scissor kicked Angela Lansbury."
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