OFFICIAL NEWS Star Wars Episode VIII Delayed until 12/15/17

Marketing, Disney now owns Christmas by default. Clever people over there....

 

I don't have any problem with them pushing the opening date back. I'm sure it was a combination of sharpening up the script and having more time in post and distancing itself from Rogue One. Since the success of TFA in December, I've been saying a December release date is better, financially speaking. Less competition, kids out of school and adults off from work and it ties in perfectly with the holiday season = more merch being sold.

 

Oh dear, Lord. Noooooo. J-Law. I'm out! I agree with the idea that Christmas = Star Wars. I like it a lot. Sure, there may be some tweaking to the script, but I think this is more of a positioning/marketing move. If it so happens we get a better script as a result, I'm all for it. Keep the over-saturation minimized.

 

Until 2020 and beyond for sure!!!

 

Wish they could of released in late Summer 2017! Eh well.. I'm still not hyped for VIII!
I just wanna watch TFA 10 more times!!! Oh and give me a R1 teaser.

 

Poor Avatar 2..

 

That's not how it works though... the rendering is refined over time. Just look at the difference on the flag in the FO rally in teaser 2 vs. trailer 1 as an example.

 

I really hope there's a slower pace for the next movie. I enjoyed the pacing of TFA, but I agree with providing more breathing room.

 

So concise it needed to be posted thrice.

RotS suffered from rewrites/reshoots, Anakin's turn was pushed back and left it feeling far more rushed onscreen than what the Novel presented. What concerns me at this time is two weeks ago JJ came out and said the script was so awesome that he regretted not directing it. Fast forward to yesterday, NOW the script is being rewritten and the traditional release has been scrapped altogether.

Something doesn't seem right.

 

they are behind on Avatar 2, highly doubtful that film opens Dec 25, 2017

 

I've watched "Looper". Rian's style will be slower.

 

Well yeah that's why I said IF and the advances of VFX. I've seen some videos I'll have to look up later about Arian using extremely advanced Pre-viz techniques that pretty much shows what the end results will look like but yeah...of course it will continue to change and refine the most minor details until the end of time .

 

I doubt that it's a full-on rewrite. It seems more like just tweaking/moving things around here and there. I think that the general story will remain the same.

 

You're talking about Rian right? I'm guessing this would have been for Looper?

 

I'm talking about VIII...Treverrow is also doing it and Abrams kind of toyed with it .

 

Though I hope they spend more time on the filming / production side of things this time around. Lawrence of Arabia took almost a year to film, in today's dollars it would be something like 500 million budget wise. Why not go all out?

 

Because even THAT'S not worth it to Disney...although that's what the cost of some of their movies might have added up to after marketing/PR/Distribution Costs for TFA .

 

Exactly right. Which excites me greatly.

 

Love this. Should bode well for VIII.