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Via Attractions Magazine Youtube:
Anonymous sources have given us information on the storyline of Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, coming this year to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
Via Deadline.com:
This year, you’ll complete your Star Wars trilogy with Episode IX. Has it felt like a marathon journey after all these years?
It’s been my second time doing something where it’s lasted six years. I think with Star Wars, it’s six years this year that I’ve known about it or been working on it. I had this experience once with Girls, where it was six or seven years from the moment we shot the pilot to the very last thing. Since I’ve been working, it’s what I’ve been used to, in a way, where you do your other things, and then you go back to see your friends. It’s always good to go back to those groups.
With Girls, there wasn’t really an end in sight, so it was fun to develop it as I went, and to think about where it was all going. With Star Wars, I had one piece of information of where it was all going, and that’s where it has been in my head for a long time, and things were building towards that. It feels very theatrical, if anything. Because in the plays that I’ve done, a six-month run, on the very last day, you finally feel like, “Oh, now I have a better understanding of what it is that I want to do. I wish we could do this all over again.” Working on a play, the questions you can ask yourself are infinite, and that’s what’s torturous about film sometimes – you only have one shot to get it right. And you can do a lot of takes, but we’re not all going to get back together again and do this. But for something you’re doing for six years, you still have a chance to go back and make something a little bit more articulated.
Via Cinemablend.com:
The Star Wars franchise may be between movies at the moment, but there is plenty of action from the galaxy far, far away available on the small screen. Star Wars Resistance is set in the sequel trilogy era, with the story picking up in the time shortly before the events of The Force Awakens. As an animated show that airs on Disney Channel, Resistance at first glance might seem aimed just at kids.
Well, Star Wars Resistance executive producer Justin Ridge chatted with CinemaBlend ahead of the show’s premiere, and he had this to say when I asked about the show tapping into a new generation of fans:
“It’s exciting, to tell you the truth. I think the show is fun because we’re kind of giving a little more of a lighthearted tone. Because I think we definitely want younger audiences to really be into the show, but we definitely don’t want to exclude the older fans. We want to stay true to Star Wars and what has come before us. So even though it’s lighter in tone and has a little more comedy, we definitely have a lot in store that I think older fans are really going to enjoy.”
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Via Comicbook.com:
The first live-action series in the Star Wars saga will debut later this year with Star Wars: The Mandalorian, a series which is still mostly shrouded in mystery. A new report from Making Star Wars claims that each of the first season’s episodes will clock in at around 45 minutes in length.
The site reads, “I have been hearing for some time there will be eight episodes in the vicinity of 40-45 minutes each.”
This rumored length would put the series in line with many network series’ episode lengths, so it comes as a surprise that the rumored runtimes wouldn’t be closer to 60 minutes, which falls more in line with premium format series. Whether it be any of Netflix’s Marvel series or HBO’s Game of Thrones, not having to cater to commercial breaks have allowed these larger productions to deliver audiences more bang for their buck with episodes lasting closer to 60 minutes each. Additionally, some of the more eventful episodes of such series have run closer to 75 minutes to accommodate the action.
After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. The Mandalorian is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy far from the authority of the New Republic.
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Via Screenrant.com:
New gifts given to the crew that worked on Star Wars: Episode IX tease new plot details for the upcoming movie. The Star Wars saga began in 1977 when George Lucas released the very first movie set in a galaxy far, far away. Now in 2019, fans have seen a prequel trilogy, Star Wars spinoffs, and are now eagerly awaiting the conclusion to the sequel trilogy.
J.J. Abrams is known for being incredibly secretive when it comes to details about his upcoming films. Since Star Wars: The Force Awakens was such a massive project, Disney and Abrams did everything they could to prevent leaks and spoilers from reaching the public. Rian Johnson, director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, had his own tactics for preventing leaks, and it looks like things won’t be any different for Star Wars: Episode IX. So far, not a lot of information has been released for the film, but new plot details may have just been revealed through gifts that the crew received.
In a new post on the Star Wars Leaks Reddit page, user N00tN00t84 shared an image of a gift set that crew members working on Star Wars: Episode IX supposedly received from director Abrams. As seen in the screenshot below, the gifts include a Bad Robot jacket, as well as two bottles that are filled with some sort of sand and beans. The note attached to the sand bottle says, “From a long long time ago, not so far away” and the note on the bean bottle says, “Swallows you up whole!!”. There is no telling what exactly these two bottles mean, but a Reddit user that seems to have inside knowledge commented, “So for those asking about the bottles: The sand, and it is really fine sand is from a sacred place on a familiar planet. The beans are something to do with ‘a Jedi eater’ whatever that means”. With that in mind, these comments should be taken with a grain of salt since they come from an unverified source.
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FROM LEIA ORGANA TO PADMÉ AMIDALA (AND EVEN CHEWBACCA!) THE GALAXY IS FILLED WITH SOME HEAD-TURNING LOOKS.
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Because of a record heatwave in England when we filmed the original #StarWars, most of the pilots wore only the top-half of their costume, attacking the Death Star wearing shorts. #TrueStory https://t.co/RSgZRneft9
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) January 5, 2019
Via Wdwnt.com:
A galaxy far, far away isn’t far away at all.
In an interview with Barron’s, Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger let it slip that Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Disneyland will invite guests in starting June 2019. Based on Deluxe Annual Passholder and Southern California Annual Passholder blockout dates, it’s anticipated that the land is likely to open the weekend of June 21st-23rd, with soft opening previews to occur over weekends throughout the month leading up to the opening.
We will update you as soon as we have an official announcement of the opening date.
Via Wdwnt.com:
Thanks to a new piece from Barron’s, we have some interesting new tidbits to tide us over until the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge later this year at Disney Parks.
As far as the open air markets of Black Spire Outpost (inspired by those of Morocco and Istanbul)…
Building exteriors in Galaxy’s Edge are designed to look weathered from the first day of completion; visitors who have seen Harambe Market in the Africa section of Disney World’s Animal Kingdom, near Orlando, Fla., will find a similar attention to detail here, such as the way faint rust streaks flow down from the corners of metal grates.
Some first impressions of Oga’s Cantina from the inside:
The first public restaurant in Disneyland to serve alcohol, Oga’s is relatively small for aesthetic reasons, and is likely to be popular. To maximize capacity and keep visits from becoming all-afternoon affairs, most guests will stand. There will be a handful of booths with seating around the outer edge of the restaurant; no decision has been made yet on whether or how these can be reserved. An intricate tangle of tubes and vessels behind the bar might make some drinks appear to flow from the ceiling. We heard a mention of a Fuzzy Tauntaun, named for the furry snow lizards ridden in Empire Strikes Back, although it’s unclear if that’s a hypothetical drink or a planned one, and the menu is still being decided.
Here are the deets on getting yourself some Blue Milk on Batuu:
Visitors will be able to order blue milk at Galaxy’s Edge, recalling the secretion of a bantha—a large, hairy animal with spiral horns—drank by Luke Skywalker in the first film (which, due to the later addition of prequels, is now known as Episode IV: A New Hope). This will be a nondairy drink. It’s unclear whether it will be sold in Oga’s or in the outdoor marketplace, or both. It’s possible it will be sold by or near a bantha farmer, suggesting the marketplace.
Lastly, some details on shopping at Black Spire Outpost along “Merchant Row”:
Shops will be supplied from a common stockroom, and restaurants from a common kitchen, to increase efficiency. One shop will feature droids that visitors can customize through an interactive experience. A droid that is made to be, say, afraid of stormtroopers might signal its fear when one comes close. Droids owned by members of the same group might recognize each other when they meet. Prices have not been set. The shop might also sell a full-size R2-D2 for well-heeled fans, perhaps costing thousands.
There will be another shop presided over by Dok-Ondar, a collector who is briefly mentioned in Solo. This character, likely animatronic, will be set apart in a booth from the rest of the staff, not unlike the dispatcher Louie De Palma in the old ABC sitcom Taxi. Cast members might interact with Dok-Ondar, asking him what he’s willing to let certain items go for. Elsewhere, there will be an outdoor market resembling a bazaar. A pod-racing engine, perhaps at the market, will be used to roast meat.
For Galaxy’s Edge, imagineers have worked with filmmakers, chefs, and merchandise executives to take adherence to storytelling to new levels for a Disney park attraction. One possibility is that Star Wars merchandise in shops will come in unique packaging that downplays the logos. Another is that merchandise based on familiar characters will take on new looks. The imagineers visited the archives at Lucasfilm for early concept art. As a hypothetical example, an artisan figure of a familiar character might look slightly off, with the back story being that residents of Batuu have never seen that character, so they don’t know exactly what the figure should look like.
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