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Ep. VIII wraps! New Rogue One Characters, and 3 Han Solo movies? …All on this week’s episode of the STAR WARS REPORT!
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This week’s topics include:
- Episode VIII has officially wrapped up production
- Wrapped on July 22
- Rian Johnson shared 3 behind-the-scenes photos
- http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-viii-wraps-shooting
- Meet two new Star Wars characters from Rogue One: Pao and Bistan (ew.com)
- http://www.ew.com/article/2016/07/20/rogue-one-star-wars-pao-bistan
- Rumor: Han Solo movie trilogy???
- Alden Ehrenreich signs multi-picture deal http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/han-solo-return-part-bigger-plan-article-1.2722170
Comic Con News:
- Edrio Two Tubes – new Rogue One character on display along with Rogue One costumes http://www.technobuffalo.com/2016/07/25/edrio-two-tubes-star-wars/
- Chuck Wendig’s final Aftermath novel, Empire’s End, sets up TFA with the Battle at Jakku http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/23/12262564/chuck-wendig-aftermath-empires-end-novel-force-awakens
- Lots of mystery on Jakku too- the Epilogue of Life Debt
- Poe Dameron: Flight Log, a collection of in-universe material that reveals new facts about Oscar Isaac’s The Force Awakens character. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Poe_Dameron:_Flight_Log
- Box Set: The titles included will be Star Wars: Rey’s Survival Guide, Star Wars: Poe Dameron: A Pilot’s Logbook and a currently untitled character storybook that is also slated for release on November 1, 2016.
- “I think there are more insights into Poe [in that book] than anything else we’ve done,” Matt Miller of the Story Group said; Michael Kogge wrote the book, and he teased the crowd by saying that one of the fictional artifacts it contains is a letter of condolence to Poe from General Leia Organa following the death of his mother, Rebel pilot Shara Bey. (Bey was the central character of the Marvel comic Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens in late 2015.)
- Box Set: The titles included will be Star Wars: Rey’s Survival Guide, Star Wars: Poe Dameron: A Pilot’s Logbook and a currently untitled character storybook that is also slated for release on November 1, 2016.
- Rogue One: Rebel Dossier in December, another in-universe collection of information files about the group of Rebels tasked with stealing the Death Star plans in Gareth Edwards’Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
- The Art of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which will collect concept artwork from the movie’s development. http://makingstarwars.net/2016/07/the-art-of-rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-announced/
- Jyn Erso Black Series figure premieres at SDCC http://nerdapproved.com/toys/jyn-erso-figure/
Boba’s Bounty:
- Riley: Star Wars Report #SWCE VLOG
- Mark: Life Debt- Yoda Figue
- Bruce: Collecting memories at Disney
- Scott: Wildspace – The Escape
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