“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” will not be altered given of Carrie Fisher’s death. The actress, who died in December, appears via a subsequent installment of a blockbuster array and won’t be transposed by a hologram, Walt Disney Co.’s tip executive announced Thursday.
Fisher’s astonishing genocide sparked romantic conjecture about how Disney would hoop her purpose as Leia in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” that is a a eighth film in a array and scheduled for recover in December.
“She’s in ‘VIII,’ and we’re not changing 8 to understanding with her passing,” Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger pronounced during an on-stage review with his wife, Willow Bay, on Thursday during a discussion hosted by USC’s Marshall and Annenberg schools. “Her performance, that we’ve been unequivocally gratified with, stays as it was.”
In “The Force Awakens,” it was suggested a Leia, now a general, is a personality of a Resistance fighting conflicting a immorality First Order. Her attribute with Han Solo has turn a bit stretched in a years given a events of “Return of a Jedi,” though a dual share a son named Ben.
Ben, however, has been seduced by a dim side of a Force and fights for a First Order as Kylo Ren, that means there is copiousness of Skywalker-Solo family play left to be explored in a remaining “Star Wars” films.
Iger and Bay also remarkable Fisher’s scenes in “The Last Jedi” wouldn’t be mutated regulating hologram technology. Disney had used a digital re-creation of a late actor in a prior “Star Wars” film.
“We’re not doing that with Carrie,” Iger said, describing a arriving film as “just as satisfying” as a final “Star Wars.”
“I’ve seen ‘VIII’ and it’s utterly good,” he said, joking that he watches clips underneath a covers in bed to censor from his teenage sons. “It picks adult where ‘VII’ left off.” (That film finished with Force-sensitive favourite Rey face to face with a reserved Jedi Luke Skywalker as she returned his lightsaber.)
Igor also strew some some-more light on a arriving standalone Han Solo film, that stars Alden Ehrenreich as a younger incarnation of a famous smuggler.
“We’re sharpened now an start story of Han Solo, that will come out in 2018,” pronounced Iger. “That picks adult when [Han Solo] is 18 years aged and takes us to when he is 24.”
The stress of those 6 years in Han Solo’s life?
“He acquires a certain car and meets a certain Wookiee,” pronounced Iger. “That will occur in this film, and you’ll also learn how he got his name.”
That’s right: Fans will finally learn how Han Solo came to possess a Millennium Falcon and cater Chewbacca. One fact still blank about a Phil Lord- and Christopher Miller-helmed anthology film, however, is a central title.
Iger also teased a destiny of “Star Wars” over a already-planned films, including “Episode IX” and one some-more anthology installment.
“We’re only starting to speak about what happens in ‘Star Wars’ after ‘IX,’ ” Iger said. “We have a artistic group indeed meditative about what could be another decade and a half of ‘Star Wars’ stories. It’s kind of mind-blowing to spend an afternoon with a artistic group articulate about that. we mean, where could we go, or where should we go?”
“A universe far, distant away,” he joked.
Iger’s agreement with Disney has only been extended for one year as a association continues to hunt for his replacement.
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” hits theaters Dec. 15, with a untitled Han Solo anthology film scheduled for a May 2018 release.
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