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Star Wars VII Eyes Spring 2014 Shoot, Avatar 2 & 3 May Film Then Too

May 7, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

star-wars-phantom-menace-3d-poster3When Disney bought Lucasfilm they announced Star Wars Episode VII would come in 2015. Now it seems they’re firming up plans, with producer Bryan Burk revealing to Collider, during an interview for Star Trek Into Darkness, that the plan is to shoot early next year.

He says, “We’re progressing on a schedule to hopefully begin next year, or the beginning of next year, and the location is still kind of floating around in the air all depending on script and a whole bunch of other issues. As I just said, everything is kind of a free-flowing thing, and when we feel like the story level on this script and everything is really coming together and schedules are all working and pieces line up, we prowl ahead, and Star Wars will be no different.”

Rumours last week suggested it would shoot in the UK, but Burk’s comments suggest that hasn’t been set in stone. Wherever it films, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher should all return, so we can catch up with their characters after Return Of The Jedi.

Star Wars isn’t the only much-anticipated movie that’s likely to shoot next year, as in another Star Trek interview, Zoe Saldana told Digital Spy that Avatar 2 & 3 will film then too. She says, “I think that they’re doing a part two and a part three and they’re probably going to shoot it at the same time. Because if we just do two and then wait, I’ll probably be 45 or 50 by the time we get to part three. It takes a long time, it’s a very hard process.”

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ACTORS: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher  DIRECTORS: JJ Abrams  FILMS: Star Wars: The Force Awakens  

Harrison Ford ‘Open’ To Star Wars VII, And Matthew Vaughn May Direct

November 6, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

From the moment it was announced a new Star Wars film was coming in 2015, it was clear we were going to be hit with vast amounts of speculation, some more informed that others. Today we’ve got two nuggets, one suggesting Harrison Ford may be up for returning to the franchise and the other saying Matthew Vaughn might direct.

We already knew Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher had been tipped off early about the possibility of more Star Wars. Now EW suggests that not only may Hamill and Fisher be back for further adventures in a galaxy far, far way, but Harrison Ford may return too. EW has what they describe as a ‘highly-placed source’ who says, “Harrison is open to the idea of doing the movie and he’s upbeat about it, all three of them are.”

That’s a long way from saying he’ll actually return – and even if he did it could just be a cameo – but it certainly sounds hopeful. As always with Ford though, he won’t enter negotiations until there is a screenplay and a director in place.

Other rumours, this time via Collider, suggest the director part of that equation may already have been decided, as they say Kick-Ass helmer Matthew Vaughn is in talks to direct Star Wars – Episode VII. It’s difficult to know how firm their sources are, although it would explain why Vaughn dropped out of X-Men: Days Of Future Past just a few months before it was due to shoot.

Many had thought there was something a bit unusual about Vaughn’s departure, as the director had seemed so upbeat about the film. It’s also true that if a director drops out late, it’s usually acrimonious and they have nothing to do with the movie afterwards, but they didn’t seem unhappy with Vaughn in the X-Men camp, as he will still produce the movie.

Both Vaughn and Ford and far from certain yet – nothing will be confirmed until it’s officially announced by Disney – but it’s all certainly intriguing.

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ACTORS: Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher  FILMS: Star Wars, Star Wars: The Force Awakens  

Will Mark Hamill & Carrie Fisher Be Back For Star Wars VII?

November 1, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Unless you’ve been in a coma for the last couple of days, you’ll have heard Disney has bought Lucasfilm and that plans for Star Wars Episodes VII-IX are in the works, with the first of those films arriving in 2015. There’s been massive amounts of speculation, most of which is based on very little info, so EW decided to go to Mark Hamill and find out what he knows. His answers suggest there may be a role for him in this new trilogy, although that’s far from confirmed yet.

Hamill says he and Carrie Fisher first got a heads-up about the new films a few months ago, “Yeah, last August, he asked Carrie and I to have lunch with him and we did. I thought he was going to talk about either his retirement or the Star Wars TV series that I’ve heard about-which I don’t think we were going to be involved in anyway, because that takes place between the prequels and the ones we were in and, if Luke were in them, he’d be anywhere from a toddler to a teenager so they’d get an age-appropriate actor-or the 3-D releases. So when he said, “We decided we’re going to do Star Wars: Episode VII, Star Wars: Episode VIII, and Star Wars: Episode IX,” I was just gobsmacked. “What? Are you nuts?!” [laughs]

“I can see both sides of it. Because in a way, there was a beginning, a middle, and an end and we all lived happily ever after and that’s the way it should be-and it’s great that people have fond memories, if they do have fond memories. But on the other hand, there’s this ravenous desire on the part of the true believers to have more and more and more material. It’s one of those things: people either just don’t care for it or are passionate about it. I guess that defines what cult movies are all about. We’ll see. I’m anxious to know what’s going on, but the main story [yesterday] was the sale to Disney. I have mixed feelings about that, but they haven’t done badly by Marvel and the Muppets and Pixar. It’s one of those big decisions that at first seems unusual but then the more you look at it, the more it makes sense.”

That’s far from saying saying he will be back as Luke, but that fact Lucas took him and Fisher to one side has ignited speculation that the only reason to tell them was because he wanted them back (although it could have just been good business, to ensure they weren’t completely blindsided.

Hamill doesn’t know anything about the plot though, simply saying, “He was just talking about writers and the fact that he wouldn’t be directing. I guess he wanted us to know before everybody else knew. He said, “Now you can’t tell anybody!” [laughs] Even now I’m nervous about saying anything. I just don’t know!”

There have also been suggestions from Lucas biographer Dale Pollock that the story picks up when Luke Skywalker is a 40-year-old man. That’s based on story treatments for the films he read several years ago when working with Lucas. If true, Hamill may be too old to play the role at 61, but it’s always possible Lucas has tinkered with the treatments. At the moment it’s all speculation at best, but don’t be shocked if it turns out Hamill and Fisher end up returning in some capacity.

It’s also been confirmed that while The Thrawn Trilogy of novels is normally seen as the official account of what Luke, Leia and co. got up to after Episode VI, these new films are original tales (and as whatever Lucas says immediately becomes canon, his treatment supplant anything else).

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ACTORS: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher  FILMS: Star Wars  
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