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Second Opinion – Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

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Solo: A Star Wars Story, 2018.Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Alden Ehrenreich, Joonas Suotamo, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Paul Bettany, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jon Favreau, Linda Hunt, Ian Kenny, John Tui, and Warwick Davis.SYNOPSIS:During an adventure into a dark criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future copilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian years […]

Movie Review – Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

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Solo: A Star Wars Story, 2018.Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Alden Ehrenreich, Joonas Suotamo, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Paul Bettany, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jon Favreau, Linda Hunt, Ian Kenny, John Tui, and Warwick Davis.SYNOPSIS:During an adventure into a dark criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future copilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian years […]

Jon Favreau’s Star Wars TV series will take place 7 years after Return of the Jedi

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Back in March, Lucasfilm announced that it has enlisted actor and director Jon Favreau to develop a live-action Star Wars TV series for Disney’s upcoming streaming service, and now we’ve got the very first details on what is sure to be a hugely anticipated show.Speaking to Nerdist at a screening of Solo: A Star Wars […]

Avengers: Infinity War featurette showcases the Marvel family

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Marvel has released a behind the scenes featurette for its upcoming superhero epic Avengers: Infinity War which includes interviews with cast members Chris Pratt (Peter Quill/Star-Lord), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark/Iron Man), Gwyneth Paltrow (Pepper Potts), Jon Favreau (Happy Hogan), Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch), Danai Gurira (Okoye), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Benedict […]

Jon Favreau says Iron Man’s Nick Fury post-credit scene was intended as “a bit of a lark”

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Ten years ago, we became part of a bigger universe – we just didn’t know it yet – when Samuel L. Jackson popped up for a cameo in Marvel’s 2008 superhero blockbuster Iron Man to talk to Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark about the Avengers Initiative.Not only did it establish a Marvel tradition of post-credits […]

The Star Wars TV Series Could Be The Boost The Franchise Needs

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Neil Calloway says the new series might save the galaxy…It’s been rumoured and planned for a long time, but this week finally brought the news that Jon Favreau will write and produce a live action Star Wars TV series. It’s news that will make Disney’s shareholder’s happy – countless people will sign up for their […]

Jon Favreau will write and produce Star Wars live-action TV series

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Its only been a couple days since Star Wars Rebels aired its series finale, but we already have news on the next television series from the galaxy far, far away. Rather than another animated series, Lucasfilm has announced a live-action series that has long been rumoured to be in development. What’s more, Jon Favreau (The Jungle Book) […]

UPDATE: Ron Howard reveals that Jon Favreau has a “cool and important” role in Solo: A Star Wars Story

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Having voiced the character of Pre Vizsla in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, it seems that Jon Favreau is set for a return to the galaxy far, far away this May, with Ron Howard revealing that Favreau will “voice a very cool and important alien character” in Solo: A Star Wars Story.The reveal happened after […]

Disney’s The Jungle Book 2 will feature unused ideas from the original animated movie

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Following the box office success of The Jungle Book, director Jon Favreau is currently hard at work on bringing another of Disney’s animated classics back to the big screen with a “live-action” remake of The Lion King, after which he’ll be returning to the world of Rudyard Kipling for The Jungle Book 2.Speaking to SlashFilm, […]