Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
There’s a Snoke action figure, and hilarity has ensued. I’m sorry, but not really. (Thanks, Heath!)
→ StarWars.com has added/updated some databank entries for The Last Jedi. They’re pretty vague!
→ A nice lengthy Mark Hamill interview is short on The Last Jedi details, but still pretty fun. At much less length, Domhnall Gleeson.
→ Behind the scenes footage of The Last Jedi will be among the Disney movies featured in one of those before-the-showing reels.
Forces of Destiny returns tonight with the first of two half-hour specials (8:00 p.m., Disney Channel,) and Disney has put up one of the episodes, ‘Newest Recruit’ early.
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Han Solo director Ron Howard shared a photo of Thandie Newton back on set. “@thandienewton returned 2 #TheGalaxy to light up some key new #UntitledHanSolo scenes then back to #Westworld,” he wrote. “What a powerhouse talent!”
Hard to say if this is before she’s been through makeup and costume, but folks are sure interested in that logo on her shoulder… (And we don’t yet know anything about her role, either!)
The second season of Westworld is expected to debut in the spring of 2018 – just like the Han film.
But wait, there’s more…
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According to Cineworld, The Last Jedi will be an astonishing 150 minutes long – two and a half hours.
If the runtime is confirmed, that would make it the longest Star Wars film yet. Currently, that’s Attack of the Clones, which clocks in at two hours and twenty minutes. Most of the prequel trilogy falls into that range, while the original trilogy averages at just over two hours – Return of the Jedi is the longest at two hours and eleven minutes.
The Force Awakens was two hours and sixteen minutes; Rogue One clocks in at two hours and thirteen minutes.
The second wave of Forces of Destiny will begin with two half-hour specials on the Disney Channel and Disney Channel app. The first will debut Sunday, October 1 at 8:00 p.m., followed by the second on October 29 at 8:00pm. They’ll appear on Disney’s Youtube after the specials, a departure from the first wave, which debuted online.
Over at StarWars.com, James talks to author Claudia Gray about Leia: Princess of Alderaan. They address the Organas, Amilyn Holdo, Easter eggs and more.
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StarWars.com and Disney XD have released the key art/poster for the upcoming fourth season of Star Wars Rebels, which debuts October 16. Meanwhile, XD has put up descriptions for the first 6 episodes. Check out both under the cut.
Ron Howard keeps giving the goods. In his two most recent Han Solo set pics, we learn that Emilia Clarke is done filming. (Not a huge surprise, given that she herself posted about bleaching her hair for the last season of Game of Thrones.) Then there’s the mysterious, foggy “Shooting a scene about desperate and dangerous times in the Galaxy.”
Just one comic this week: Coming Wednesday, September 27 is Mace Windu: Jedi of the Republic #2.
Director Rian Johnson celebrates the end of post-production on The Last Jedi with an Instagram. “Aaaand that’s a wrap on the hardest working post production team in the galaxy,” he writes. “Going to miss sitting in dark rooms with these goobers.”
Yes, even the effects.