Happy Sunday, and welcome again to “This Week, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away“, the place I have a look again on the previous week within the Star Wars galaxy and join with you, the reader, with a extra casual tone and mix the most recent information with my private opinions. Today, we’re wanting forward at Star Wars Celebration as we shut the darkish chapter that was the summer season of the strikes. (Top picture through r/StarWarsCelebration.)
It’s been an fascinating week within the leisure enterprise, for positive, with the premiere of Marvel’s newest tentpole in addition to (private fav) David Fincher’s new movie, however most significantly, the announcement that the actors and the studios have agreed to a brand new three-year contract that ensures the business will probably be again up and working instantly. We’ll focus on this shortly, however first, our first version of…
This Week, in Shocking News
- Marvel’s Kevin Feige confirms his Star Wars film isn’t taking place. I assume everybody needed to faux to be shocked, after that Variety report confirmed months in the past that it wasn’t taking place, Feige is busier than ever at Marvel, and actually no person has included his challenge in any “Upcoming Star Wars movies” listing in months. We can now return to pretending this was by no means a factor, similar to Kathy Kennedy!
- Disney says they don’t seem to be going to license any Star Wars or Marvel content material to Netflix. I imply, did anybody actually assume this was a risk? They’ve sort of offered Disney Plus to non-parents as a method to get their newest exhibits and films from these franchises, so altering that mannequin wouldn’t solely make them lose subscribers however would confuse everybody much more. Iger basically described the thought of constructing Disney Plus as a realization they’d been “mainly promoting nuclear weapons expertise to a Third World nation,”, as he advised The New York Times final 12 months.
- More on the Disney-Netflix subject: That being stated, loads can change over the following couple of years. The deal between Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery is fascinating to keep watch over, as they’re licensing the DC motion pictures sans Aquaman or Joker. Will that give them a lift in subscribers for Max when the sequels come out? Also, Dune: Part Two is due out in March, and the primary one seems like a no brainer to license out to Netflix, to maximise the eyes on it and get everybody excited for the sequel. How will this have an effect on Star Wars now that we’re transferring nearer to the return to theaters?
- Even extra on that subject: Iger did say, nonetheless, that they’re in conversations with Netflix to license out different content material. My thoughts instantly went to one thing like Willow, which might do stable numbers on Netflix from the identical demographic that enjoyed The Dark Crystal a number of years in the past and which was eliminated from Disney Plus altogether earlier this 12 months.
- Star Wars: Hunters is getting delayed. What?! But the builders simply launched a behind-the-scenes look letting us know this can be a actual factor. No doubt, largest shocker of the week.
There Things That May Have Flown Casual
- Anthony Daniels put up for public sale his assortment of C-3PO memorabilia. He first needed to take one final have a look at his buddies.
- The rating for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was nominated on Friday for a Grammy Award. Also, hold a watch out on Monday for the Game Awards, the place Respawn may need extra champagne to pop.
- Louis Leterrier was as soon as a part of Lucasfilm’s pitching periods. He wished to do an Obi-Wan story pre-A New Hope with Luke, and a Boba Fett movie. The Fast X director additionally had the quote of the week: Every filmmaker of their 40-50s who isn’t making Star Wars, secretly all they wish to do is Star Wars.
The finish of the actors’ strike and the start of the scheduling headache
There’s already been an excessive amount of ink thrown into this subject, so I’ll transfer on shortly. However, if we’re recapping the week, it’s sort of a compulsory topic to debate. I’ve already spelled out hundreds of phrases into what this implies for Star Wars within the rapid time period, and likewise mid and long-term. And Disney’s rapid late-night rush sort of backed up my ideas on a few of that.
The business has gone from 0 to 60 in a matter of hours. Publicists and studios, in addition to awards strategists, are in a frenzy to attempt to e book their stars and shoppers on late-night exhibits or high-profile interviews with the trades that may give them and their newest tasks the eye they should both get nominated or simply survive on the field workplace. Just this week, Disney moved hell and excessive water to get Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston on The Tonight Show so they may a minimum of considerably salvage The Marvels’ opening and Loki‘s season 2 finale viewership. And Apple might use a few of that airtime to advertise Lessons in Chemistry, after all.
In Star Wars land, the Ahsoka solid has began to unload their gazillion photographs and movies from the set on social media, now that they’re lastly in a position to focus on the present. Will this be the primary signal of a wave of post-release promos that includes the actresses, like massive media interviews, late-night appearances, and even new YouTube and TikTok reels that includes the solid answering the Internet’s hottest questions, or no matter they do today? I might even see Disney airing a pair episodes of Ahsoka on their linear networks as an excuse for this extra promotion.
And talking of social media promotion, maybe we will now lastly get some information on Skeleton Crew. Did they want further filming that had been initially deliberate for the summer season, so they only can’t launch it but? It’s doable, however the present was filed within the US Copyright Records in July, after the actors went on strike, saying it had a end date deliberate for December 2023. That may very well be as much as change, after all, however there have been some rumblings of doable bother with that present. Or maybe they have been simply ready to see when the strike would finish to have Jude Law out there to advertise and report lovable movies with the children to go viral on social media.
In phrases of different exhibits, Deadline revealed an article on Thursday that they hold updating with the return capturing dates for TV collection. As of this writing, there may be nonetheless no point out of Andor, which has round 4 weeks left of filming within the UK, or The Mandalorian, which was initially supposed to start out capturing in October, pre-strikes. We’ll hopefully obtain extra information on that quickly.
The Road to Star Wars: Celebration Japan begins
Lucasfilm’s VP of Franchise Assets and Publicity posted Monday on social media that he’d simply returned from Japan as a part of the corporate’s advance celebration to start out planning Star Wars: Celebration 2025. There are nonetheless one other 18 months forward of the deliberate April 18-20 occasion on the Makuhari Messe Center in Chiba, simply outdoors of Tokyo, however it’s nonetheless thrilling to look into the longer term and begin to fantasize about what the conference will convey.
Word on the ground final 12 months, when the conference returned to Anaheim after a two-year COVID break, was that Lucasfilm was going again to the yearly mode for conventions, as that they had a ton of tasks to spotlight — in contrast to in 2018, once they had a spot 12 months. That was clearly confirmed false a number of months in the past when StarWars.com introduced through a throwaway line that there’d be no conference in 2024, and in flip, they wouldn’t be coming again till 2025. My pockets began dancing in aid, however it additionally made sense. A ten-month separation between the occasions was welcome, however it additionally made the London days really feel like a large dèja vu. It was a ton of enjoyable, but additionally so many individuals crammed into so little area.
But we glance ahead now, and Japan is on the horizon. What might we probably see there? Obviously, the very first thing that involves thoughts is the following function movie(s). It’s sort of superb to assume that by then we’d even have a transparent thought of the place we’re going by way of our movie slate. At the second, now we have a number of concepts thrown in opposition to the wall, however we don’t actually know what’s capturing when, or what’s popping out when — regardless of my finest efforts to attempt to predict each of them.
From the place we stand right this moment, Japan 2025 looks like the right spot to have a panel celebrating 10 years of The Force Awakens, 20 years of Revenge of the Sith, and likewise, ought to issues transfer ahead the best method, a panel on Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s New Jedi Order-era movie starring Daisy Ridley.
I even really feel just like the Force Awakens panel ought to/might tie into the New Jedi Order bulletins. By then, they could even have wrapped filming, so a title announcement, in the event that they haven’t executed it by then, feels sort of assured, together with first-look photographs and perhaps even a small behind-the-scenes reel. Obviously, I’m being a bit optimistic right here, however hey, one can dream. As far because the Force Awakens celebration goes, it’s the right time to convey all people again (though I wouldn’t depend on Adam Driver even sniffing the conference). Maybe they’ll even convey JJ out on stage to show to the world he’s nonetheless alive.
Additional panels will seemingly embrace one other Mandalorian-centered discuss, as season 4 will probably be on the horizon, and by then we’d additionally know extra about Ahsoka season 2 and Dave Filoni’s theatrical movie. And clearly, conversations on different function movies, particularly Taika Waititi’s, which by then needs to be in actually fine condition and also have a launch date. Again, I’m being tremendous optimistic right here.
Obviously, there’s the draw back that flying individuals there may really be fairly costly. So we’ll see. What do you assume we might see in 2025? Let me know down beneath!
Jocasta Nu’s Reading List
- SWNN: A full breakdown by yours actually on how the top of the SAG-AFTRA strike will impression Star Wars productions.
- Screen Rant: Why Andor should keep on monitor with its tone and keep away from massive cameos or scenes just like the Darth Vader hallway sequence on the finish of Rogue One, in response to Nathaniel Roark
- CBR: Ahsoka was really a full realization of George’s imaginative and prescient of the Force, Jackie Panella explains.
- The Verge: Ubisoft laid off a ton of staff this week, together with individuals from a visible results staff that labored on The Mandalorian and Ahsoka.
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Miguel Fernández is a Spanish scholar that has motion pictures as his second ardour in life. His favourite film of all time is The Lord of the Rings, however he’s additionally an enormous Star Wars fan. However, fantasy motion pictures should not his solely cup of tea, as motion pictures from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he began to know the language of filmmaking. He is that man who will watch a black and white film, simply because it’s in black and white.
