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Star Wars Episode VIII Delayed
Star Wars Put Back To Christmas 2017
♦According to IGN, Star Wars: Episode VIII has been put back to December 2017
Disney has just announced that the release of Star Wars – Episode VIII has been pushed from May 2017 to December of that year.
Rian Johnson is reportedly rewriting his script for Star Wars – Episode VIII. The rumour comes from the Meet The Movie Press video podcast. Therein it’s stated that filming on Johnson’s iteration “has been pushed about a month.” The delay, if true, is the result of the writer/director reworking his script in response to the strengths of The Force Awakens. Specifically, the roles of Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac’s characters Rey, Finn and Poe will be expanded some while a pair of new characters’ roles will be reduced. Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tatiana Maslany, Bel Powely and Gina Rodriguez have been rumored to be up for those mysterious new roles.
“I said before there were two young female roles, now I actually heard that the rewrite will make these roles smaller,” says The Wrap’s Jeff Sneider on the podcast. “They want to get to know better the characters they already have. So the new rewrite is shrinking the new roles in order to spend more time with Rey, Poe and so on.”
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