Official Info Production to Start Early 2014

There is a transcript floating on the web how they shot the ESB carbon chamber scene. It illustrates perfectly just how much tinkering went on with the original script, how much Kershner and Ford played around with dialogue and in the end came up with the version we all know and love - but is significantly different than what was in the script.

If Kershner simply "directed the script" as you say, many of the most loveable moments from ESB would not be there.

 

The Transcript was from a book by Alan Arnold- A Journal Of The Making Of The Empire Strikes Back. It is a fantastic book on the production of Empire and in particular that scene. It really does illustrate the impact of a director and their actors upon a screenplay for the better in this occasion.

 

The next X-Men movie began shooting in April of this year and comes out July next year. That will be a nearly-as-complex-as-Star-Wars so yeah, January/February of next year for a May 2015 sounds about right. Oh, and Simon Kinberg helped write that script.

 

Star Wars films have long planning and design phases.
TPM started design work in 1995, two full years before shooting began(in 97)and post was another 18 months following(up til April '99).

 

Yeah, but that's because George Lucas wants like 5 billion drawings, sculptures, etc, to choose from. JJA isn't George Lucas. I mean they would show him walking into a room FULL of stuff and picking like three things. And much of the stuff he finally picked for the PT wasn't that great. Total waste of time, effort and creativity.

 

When Disney announced that Star Wars: Episode VII is actually happening, the studio mentioned that they were aiming for a 2015 release date. According to producer Kathleen Kennedy, that is not exactly the case, as of now. Here's what she had to say in a recent interview, revealing they are more interested in getting the story right than hitting a release date.

"Our goal is to move as quickly as we can, and we'll see what happens. The timetable we care about is getting the story."

I have also read that J. J. Abrams plans on releasing Star Wars in November/December 2015 to correspond with the highest-grossing block-busters of all time Avatar and Titanic, which both debuted during those months as well.

They have yet to even begin filming, and it already appears as if they are pushing the release date back further and further. Hopefully, beginning production in early 2014 will lead to the movie opening in theaters at the time it was first slated for release, early 2015.

 

Agreed, but once the suggestion was made by Disney that Episode 7 would be finished by early 2015, they created a monster. As now I greedily want the new movie to end production as soon as possible so that I can see the original cast members from the OT (and possibly even PT) reprise each of their roles.

But yes...I guess technically they could focus on the quality of the product...technically...

 

I think it's just different approaches towards making movies. I remember before Episode 2 (I don't like abbreviations) came out, Lucas said in an interview that the movie could be pushed a year because of delays in production. Eventually that didn't happen and we got probably the worst looking Star Wars movie ever. It looks like a first render, not completed at all.

JJ has too much at stake making the new Star Wars movie, I'm sure he's not going to let something like that happen.

 

I don't think it's going to get pushed back too much. Disney have already made it quite clear that they want this franchise to produce a movie every year between 2015 - 2019 at least. I don't think Disney would have revealed the multi-picture plan to the world if they weren't confident that they could get everything out within a certain time frame.

On top of this I have no concerns with the time scale that Episode 7 has to be filmed in to be released for a summer 2015 slot. ANH started principal photography in March 1976, just over a year before the final picture made its world premiere. If Episode 7 goes into production in 2014, as we've been told by JJ, then evidence suggests that it will make it out on schedule.

 

Starting production in early next year does not make a summer 2015 release any less likely. The stuff from interviews about not caring about the release date but focusing on the story is just saying what's expected and sounds right. Delays don't always make for a better film. A lot of pre-production is and has been happening for about a year now anyway.

 

Ah, man, thanks . . . seriously . . . you have absolutely no idea how much I needed a good laugh . .

 

Eh, plastic at times, yeah, but first render...no way.

 

First render was obviously hyperbole, I'm very glad something like that made you laugh so hard, you must be a very humorous person.

What i meant is that the movie feels very rushed and it constantly looks like crap. Period

 

An image can speak louder than words at times:

 

Agreed, an image can be worth many words. Of course "constantly looking like crap" is an entirely personal, subjective judgment. But even so, I wonder in what way these images are "constant crap" . . .

 

In all honesty, the only thing I can't forgive is the CGI clone troopers.
Everything else is quite alright.

 

Yeah, CGI Clone Troopers were a pretty strange idea. I'd understand utilizing the CGI in large battles, but shots like the one above did not require CGI at all.

 

Ok so my predictions are: Casting announcements by October-November, then months of us stalking these actors and creating threads about every thing they do (example: That actor recently cut his hair so this obviously is a MAJOR thing and Look at this video this actor made in 2007 where she says she hates the prequels! Lets all bash her!), then we'll probably *if we're lucky* get some concept art leaks around december, then filming in January. Now the possibility of set pics is up for debate since this is JJ Abrams we're dealing with. Hopefully they film outdoors sometimes so we can get some pics/vids. I dont want to wait months for my first official look at the new cast!

 

stay on target

 

I don't know that we'll see a 2015 release. It's a close call. These films, if they do it right, take like three years or something like that if I remember.

 

Close but I think you're off on a few dates. I believe our first casting announcement will drop at San Diego Comic Con, with a follow-up at Celebration Europe. I also believe concept art will be shown at Celebration Europe as well, why have two designers there if not to show at least a little something. I don't expect the actors playing new characters to be announced until September or so, but the character names could definitely be announced at SDCC or CE this summer.