While much of the focus at the moment is on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the folks at Making Star Wars have offered up a few rumoured details on two new characters set to debut in the galaxy far, far away in next year’s Star Wars: Episode VIII. According to the site, who had a […]
Rian Johnson shares photo from the Star Wars: Episode VIII edit
Rian Johnson has shared the first image from the edit of Star Wars: Episode VIII – although it doesn’t really show an awful lot. The director shared the image via Instagram with the post, “day one!” Check it out below: Day one! A photo posted by Rian Johnson (@riancjohnson) on Aug 15, 2016 at 7:15pm […]
John Williams will begin scoring Star Wars: Episode VIII in a few weeks
At 84 years of age, John Williams is one of the oldest living movie music composers, but that isn’t going to stop him from returning to the Star Wars franchise for the eighth time in about four decades to score 2017’s Star Wars: Episode VIII. In fact, during a show at the Tanglewood in Massachusetts […]
Future Filmmakers panel offers info on Star Wars: Episode VIII and Han Solo movie
Lucasfilm brought the curtain down on Star Wars Celebration Europe this afternoon with the Future Filmmakers panel, which saw Rian Johnson, Phil Lord and Chris Miller offering up a few minor details about Star Wars: Episode VIII and the young Han Solo movie respectively. First up came the announcement that for the first time in […]
Rumoured Star Wars: Episode VIII scene description details an epic Jedi battle
Warning: Possible spoilers for Star Wars: Episode VIII follow… Over the past couple of months we’ve had a few spy reports from the set of Star Wars: Episode VIII – including a rumoured cameo from Tom Hardy and a scene featuring Laura Dern’s character and Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron – and now the folks on Making Star Wars have a […]
Rumour: Bottom star Ade Edmondson cast in Star Wars: Episode VIII
Now, this one comes from The Sun, so it could very well be as fictional as it is surprising, but according to the UK tabloid The Young Ones and Bottom star Ade Edmondson has bagged himself a role in Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Episode VIII. According to the report, Edmondson impressed director Rian Johnson […]
Michael Giacchino to compose Doctor Strange score
Despite getting many things right, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has long struggled with one thing: its film scores. While Alan Silvestri managed to make an alright theme for The Avengers, it didn’t stick around after Phase One of the MCU, and was nowhere near as iconic as the superhero themes from composers like Danny Elfman, John Williams […]
Deadpool overtakes X-Men: Days of Future Past to become highest-grossing X-Men movie of all time
Last week Deadpool claimed the record as the biggest R-rated movie of all time, and now the Ryan Reynolds-headlined film has reached another milestone, overtaking X-Men: Days of Future past to become the highest-grossing instalment of 20th Century Fox’s X-Men franchise. Deadpool has pushed its worldwide total to $749.9 million this weekend, surpassing the $747.9 million that […]
Akiva Goldsman writing The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep
It looks like Warner Bros. has decided to press ahead with its plans to adapt Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep, with The Tracking Board reporting that Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman has been set to write the script for the sequel to The Shining. Doctor Sleep picks up some years after the events at the Overlook Hotel, […]
Tom Hiddleston says Kong: Skull Island will be “spectacular and epic”
King Kong is set to return to the big screen next year courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ Kong: Skull Island, and Tom Hiddleston has been speaking about the upcoming monster movie during a chat with Entertainment Weekly, describing the film as “spectacular and epic.” “We’re done [filming]. We were in Hawaii, Australia, […]
