slop101

Grunberg is good friends with JJ Abrams, and Abrams tries to stick him in everything he does, no matter how small a part.

Brack

Grunberg is a solid actor. Loved him on Felicity and Heroes (not his fault that show turned to crap).

DJariya

http://comicbook.com/2015/12/24/john...filming-in-a-/

John Boyega (Finn) says they will start principal photography in a few weeks.

I'm looking forward to seeing Johnson's interpretation of the material. He's a relatively new director, so this is a fucking huge movie for him to tackle. But on the plus side, this is awesome to have a relatively young filmmaker give a fresh take on the material.

dex14

I'm so psyched that the wait is only 18 months. Really excited for Johnson to be working on this.

Michael Corvin

So how long ago did VII wrap, at least for the actors? Seems like a quick turnaround, but that's probably because it just came out.

DJariya

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/new...wraps#/slide/1

Episode VII wrapped filming November 2014. It was a 6 month shoot.

joe_b

Jeff Sneider of The Wrap has said that Bel Powley of "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" is up one of the female roles. He also mentioned that Gina Rodriguez is still in the running. They start shooting by the end of the month, so there should be official announcements soon.



There are also reports that the set designers have recreated parts of Skellig Michael on the backlot at Pinewood, including the stone huts. There are rumors that the Dingle Peninsula and Ceann Sibeal in West Kerry will be used as stand-in locations for Luke's island (named Ahch-To).

Shannon Nutt

This is true. Because there are a bunch of environmental conditions when filming there, it was more cost-effective to just build a set...they used the same soundstage as the opening battle scenes on Jakku in Episode VII.

windom

When are they ever gonna cast a blonde woman in a Star Wars movie? The only one I can think of is Carrie Fisher's daughter and that was basically a background character.

Solid Snake

Captain Phasma. Though... we don't know if her helmet is ever going off.

banthafett

He said "woman".

Solid Snake

Is this a reference to her Game of Thrones character? If so, I don't really watch that show.

Big Boy Laroux

I'm just assuming cause she's large in stature and may be considered "man-ish"?

mcnabb

I agree, as I wonder if we get to see some early footage or the 1st teaser at SW Celebration July 15-17?

Anyway, before we know it the Episode 8 hype will begin!

TGM

holy shit! the opening crawl for Ep8 already leaked online!

https://www.facebook.com/ign/videos/...46633/?theater

dex14

Yea...that wasn't funny at all...

TGM

it is if you have a preteen daughter.

Solid Snake

You must be the guy that always posts stuff on other people's pages on facebook.

Ranger

I wonder if Kylo will kill Leia in this one.

Jackskeleton

I think Episode VIII will just be Kylo hitting up Hot Topic for 2 hours.

coli

And Episode 9 will be his trial like the Menendez Brothers on how he was abused as a kid and that's why he killed his parents.

joe_b

Jeff Sneider now hears that Rodriguez is out of the running and that an unknown asian actress has landed the role that she and Powley were up for. This could be a caluclated move by Disney to cater to the asian market after The Force Awakens opened so strong in China. It's the second-biggest movie market in the world and a territory that had remained largely out of the loop when it came to the phenomenon of Star Wars (where the prequel trilogy grossed less that $19M combined). Kind of ironic, since 99% of the tie-in merchandise is manufactured over there.

Anyway, he also mentioned that the start of principal photography has been pushed to February. Rian Johnson is supposedly doing last minute rewrites to reduce the role of the new female character(s) in order to give more screentime to our pre-established heroes (Rey, Poe, etc).

islandclaws

It didn't open strongly in China at all, though, and it is already dropping precipitously.

dsa_shea

They got a firsthand look at the shit from those movies and decided that those prequels were not worth seeing.

kefrank

It hasn't had legs there, but it is unequivocally false to say that it didn't open strongly. It had the biggest Saturday opening ever in China and the second-biggest single-day gross.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...ar-wars-853574