This news aligns itself with what has already been revealed about Disney’s plans for the “Star Wars” franchise. When the Mouse House acquired Lucasfilm Limited back in October, the company said fans should expect a new “Star Wars” movie “every two to three years.” According to Horn, “Star Wars: Episode VII” will be released in summer 2015, “Episode VIII” will come out in summer 2017 and “Episode IX” will hit theaters in summer 2019.
Alternating between those releases will be . “We expect to have pictures derived from that universe,” Horn said during the CinemaCon announcement, with one spin-off released in 2016 and a second in 2018. Simon Kinberg and “Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back” screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan will write the two “Star Wars” films as stories separate from the sequel trilogy.
It has not yet been confirmed if the two spin-off films will tell the stories of Boba Fett and young Han Solo, as had previously been rumored. There had also been a report that Zack Snyder would write a spin-off “Star Wars” movie “loosely based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic ‘Seven Samurai,’ ” though he has since denied those claims.
J.J. Abrams has been tapped to direct “Star Wars: Episode VII,” which is written by Michael Arndt. Abrams recently opened up about his approach to the movie during an interview with Empire.
“We’re just getting started,” he said. “There are infinitely more questions than answers right now, but to me, [‘Star Wars’ and ‘Star Trek’ are] not that dissimilar. Though I came at these both from very different places, where they both meet is a place of ‘Ooh, that’s really exciting.’ And even though I was never a ‘Star Trek’ fan, I felt like there was a version of it that would make me excited, that I would think ‘That’s cool, that feels right, I actually would want to see that.’ “
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