{"id":23222,"date":"2015-03-12T12:21:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=23222"},"modified":"2015-03-12T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:26:12","slug":"first-standalone-movie-announced-plus-episode-viii-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2015\/03\/12\/first-standalone-movie-announced-plus-episode-viii-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"First Standalone Movie Announced Plus Episode VIII Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/rogue-one-is-the-first-star-wars-stand-alone-film-rian-johnson-to-write-and-direct-star-wars-episode-viii\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7013\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lucasfilm_logo.jpg\" alt=\"lucasfilm_logo\" width=\"339\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lucasfilm_logo.jpg 339w, https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lucasfilm_logo-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disney and Lucasfilm have just announced the first standalone film for the Star Wars franchise.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Rogue One<\/em>\u00a0is the title for the first film in a unique series of big-screen adventures that explores the characters and events beyond the core\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0saga.\u00a0<em>Rogue One<\/em>\u00a0will be directed by Gareth Edwards (<em>Monsters<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Godzilla<\/em>) and written by Oscar nominee Chris Weitz (<em>Cinderella<\/em>,\u00a0<em>About a Boy<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Antz<\/em>).\u00a0The first actress cast is Felicity Jones, who garnered an Academy Award nomination and critical acclaim for her performance in\u00a0<em>The Theory of Everything<\/em>.\u00a0The idea for the story of\u00a0<em>Rogue One<\/em>\u00a0came from John Knoll, an Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer at Industrial Light &amp; Magic. He will executive produce along with Simon Emanuel (<em>The Dark Knight Rises<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Fast &amp; Furious 6<\/em>) and Jason McGatlin (<em>Tintin<\/em>,\u00a0<em>War of the Worlds<\/em>). Kathleen Kennedy and Tony To (<em>Band of Brothers<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Pacific<\/em>) are on board to produce and John Swartz (<em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em>) will co-produce.\u00a0The film starts shooting this summer in London and is due for release on December 16, 2016<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, they Bob Iger\u00a0confirmed,\u00a0that Rian Johnson will write and direct\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em>: Episode VIII. The film, which continues the saga after the events of\u00a0<em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em>, is set for release on\u00a0<strong>May 26, 2017!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/rogue-one-is-the-first-star-wars-stand-alone-film-rian-johnson-to-write-and-direct-star-wars-episode-viii\">StarWars.com<\/a> for the full details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney and Lucasfilm have just announced the first standalone film for the Star Wars franchise. Rogue One\u00a0is the title for the first film in a unique series of big-screen adventures that explores the characters and events beyond the core\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0saga.\u00a0Rogue One\u00a0will be directed by Gareth Edwards (Monsters,\u00a0Godzilla) and written by Oscar nominee Chris Weitz (Cinderella,\u00a0About &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2015\/03\/12\/first-standalone-movie-announced-plus-episode-viii-release-date\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Standalone Movie Announced Plus Episode VIII Release Date<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[85,635,73,1577],"class_list":["post-23222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie_news","tag-disney","tag-episode-viii","tag-lucasfilm","tag-rogue-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23224,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23222\/revisions\/23224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}