{"id":641420,"date":"2013-02-06T10:36:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=215286"},"modified":"2013-02-06T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:36:18","slug":"star-wars-spinoff-movies-are-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641420","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Spinoff Movies Are in the Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since The Walt Disney Company bought Lucasfilm<\/a> late last year, Star Wars<\/em> fans have been alternately worried and hopeful about the world’s most famous sci-fi brand returning to the big screen. The choice of J.J. Abrams to direct Star Wars: Episode VII<\/em> seems to have gone over well and a new announcement this week means that, regardless of their quality, Star Wars fans<\/em> will not be wanting for films in the years to come.<\/p>\n

During Disney<\/a>‘s latest financial call with investors it was revealed that two standalone, spinoff Star Wars<\/em> movies are currently in the works. Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger stated that the original goal of expanding Star Wars<\/em><\/a> cannon with a sequel trilogy has been broadened. <\/p>\n

“We are in development of a few standalone films that are not part of the Star Wars<\/em> saga,” said Iger. “There are now creative entities working on developing scripts for what would be those standalone films.”<\/p>\n

Fans shouldn’t have to worry about one of the movies, which is being written by Lawrence Kasdan. Kasdan had a hand in writing The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>, Return of the Jedi<\/em>, and Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em>. Interestingly, he also helped write the story for the classic Nintendo 64 game Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire<\/em>, which hasn’t seen a screen adaptation yet.<\/p>\n

The other spinoff movie isn’t off to such an encouraging start. It is currently being written by Simon Kinberg, a screenwriter whose credits include X-Men: The Last Stand<\/em> and Jumper<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Ever since The Walt Disney Company bought Lucasfilm late last year, Star Wars fans have been alternately worried and hopeful about the world’s most famous sci-fi brand returning to the big screen. The choice of J.J. Abrams to direct Star Wars: Episode VII seems to have gone over well and a new announcement this week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}