With J.J. Abrams officially confirmed as director for at least the first of three new Star Wars films, many fans will now wait for the May 2015 release date with baited breath. However, a true Star Wars fan knows that there’s more to it than that.
The journey through the prequels have to be considered one of the greatest times in cinema. From 1998-2005 a pattern formed over the three films and if Disney/Lucasfilm really wants to deliver the goods with the new Star Wars Sequels, it makes sense that the build-up to Star Wars: Episode 7 follows much the same path as the Prequels did when it comes to hype and excitement.
So lets begin and see just what’s in store for us as the journey towards Episode 7 begins…
Casting
We have our director. We have our screenplay. So now, and probably more than ever for the Star Wars Saga we’re awaiting the casting announcements. Will we get Mark Hamill back for an older bearded Luke Skywalker? Will Han and Leia bring Chewbacca along in the Millennium Falcon? Will Lando be working alongside the new order in the galaxy and of course will C-3P0 still be worrying about Master Luke?
Really, I want all these answers to these questions to be YES. I think it’s a safe bet 3P0 and R2 will be along for the ride and out of the batch I think Luke has to be a key role in the return of Star Wars but that’s the excitement factor here. Star Wars casting will go on for months. Small roles, large roles, the potentially re-casting of classic characters, returning monsters and masked bounty hunters. This will be the stuff that lets us start forming storylines in our heads. This is the stuff where we read between the lines of press releases to work out where we are when we return to the Galaxy Far Far Away and I just can’t wait.
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The day the trailer comes out Youtube may crash from the insane view count it will surely receive
It’s certainly gonna be a big ‘un!
Whatever Abrams does, he HAS to bring Boba Fett back. HAS TO.
Because this overhyped nothing of a background character deserves even more focus than the prequels already gave him?
Why? Lucas already dedicated a big chunk of lore to the Fetts, all due to inane fan demands to want more of a character whose only interesting attribute is his armor.
You mean the one who gotten eatin by the Sarlac
I have committed to not watch any trailers, look at photos or preview videos beforehand. I want to walk into the theater in 2015 without any idea of what’s coming.
I think Boba has more chance at turning up in these side projects. I’m quite intrigued what Snyder’s Seven Samurai/Jedi thing is. Is it a full length feature? A short to play before Episode 7 maybe? A made for TV special? I feel these projects will bring in the big names as I would imagine it’s going to enable creaters to do their own things outside of the ‘Episode’ constraints. This is something I’ll be watching very closly.
Great piece, I think when pictures start too leak, itll get a little exciting, it shows it IS being made and the talking is right, sort of thing, then the trailer . Itll have a little mystery to it, maybe a green lightsaber switching on revealing a elderly bearded Luke in the dark? Then its even closer, prebook tickets, wait and then the film. I hope they bring back Boba Fett.
If they did bring back Boba he’s gonna be pretty damn old by now right? I guess it doesn’t matter at all as long as they keep him masked but unaltered clone at 50-60. There’s always ways out but y’know, it’s an issue.
Suck or do not suck…. there is no try. I predict a hybrid of the new star trek and pirates of the carribean.
I’ve read a lot of comments like that about the place. Surely Star Wars doesn’t need to be a mixuture of anything, given that most modern blockbusters are essentially trying to replecate what Star Wars acheived anyway?