John Boyega gave use a look at his pre-IX hair style on Instagram yesterday, while Mark Hamill has… shaved his beard?!? I am confused and distressed.
Take it as you will.
Episode IX hair watch: State of the Boyega, Hamill
Indiana Jones 5 rescheduled for 2021
The fifth Indiana Jones movie has officially been rescheduled for July 9, 2021. (The delay was first reported by Variety.) Disney made a number of scheduling moves and announcements today, but this seems to be the only one effecting any Lucasfilm projects.
Star Wars out this week: Jedi the Last
There’s one book, two new comics, two reprint collections and an Insider out this week. Tuesday, July 10 means that William Shakespeare’s Jedi the Last by Ian Doescher will be on the shelves.
Report: Billy Dee Williams returning for IX
Lando Calrissian is coming back – again. The Hollywood Reporter, backing up a Fantha Tracks report from last month, is now saying that Billy Dee Williams will reprise the role in Episode IX.
A younger version of Lando, played by Donald Glover, appeared in May’s Solo, but Billy Dee hasn’t been on screen since Return of the Jedi, though he did do some voice work as the character on Rebels.
IX is due to begin filming at the end of the month, so if this rumor does pan out, we’ll likely hear soon.
Report: Keri Russell in talks for Episode IX
J.J. Abrams may be bringing a familiar face with him to Episode IX. Keri Russell is in talks for a role, Variety reports today. The role reportedly calls for “action-heavy fight scenes”, something she has experience with in her recent roles on FX’s The Americans, Mission: Impossible and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Variety also says that Abrams is looking to cast two more roles before the end of the month, when filming is due to begin.
Russell starred in Abram’s first TV show, Felicity.
Our first, fuzzy look at Resistance?
Emerging today on Twitter was our first (very fuzzy) look at some of the cast of the upcoming cartoon, Resistance. First spotted thanks to @GetFANDOM, it apparently originated with Guillaume Malgouyres, who per his Twitter bio is a marketer with Disney France.
Could Episode IX return to a classic world?
Is a newish filming location for an old world set to return?
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Celebrating what we love: Lucasfilm expands fan awards
The fan film awards are back, but now it’s no longer just for fan films. The Star Wars Fan Awards now celebrate three categories of fan creativity – Videos, Photos, and Visual Art. There are multiple categories under each – video counts both short (15 seconds and under) and long (up to 5 minutes) in multiple categories, Photo also includes pet photography and food presentation, while Visual Art covers digital, 2-D, 3-D, custom costumes, and custom figures. In short, there are a lot of ways to participate.
Submissions open up at StarWarsFanAwards.com on July 18 and close September 17. Winners will be chosen by a Lucasfilm panel, with Audience Choice voting in November.
Star Wars out this week: #50 for Marvel’s flagship title
We’ve got one book, two new comics and a reprint this week. The book-only version of Dan Wallace’s The Rebel Files is out on Tuesday, July 3 (at least per Amazon – we’ll see). We’ve also got several comics coming on Wednesday, July 4, including Star Wars #50 (with a Terry Dodson variant), The Last Jedi #4 and Star Wars volume 3 in hardcover, collecting #26-30, #33-37 and Annual #2-3.
Report: Indiana Jones 5 delayed
The fifth Indiana Jones movie won’t be coming in July 2020, Variety says today. (It was moved to 2020 way back in 2017, back when they first scheduled IX.) They’re following an earlier report from Collider, which says that the film has a new writer, Solo’s Jonathan Kasdan, replacing David Koepp (Jurassic Park).
Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford “remain committed”. The previous film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, came out in May 2008.