{"id":27837,"date":"2016-01-20T13:40:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T19:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=27837"},"modified":"2016-01-20T13:41:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T19:41:57","slug":"episode-viii-rescheduled-for-december-2017-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2016\/01\/20\/episode-viii-rescheduled-for-december-2017-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode VIII Rescheduled for December 2017 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27838\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Star_Wars_episodeVIII.jpg\" alt=\"Star_Wars_episodeVIII\" width=\"500\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Star_Wars_episodeVIII.jpg 500w, https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Star_Wars_episodeVIII-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, Disney and Lucasfilm announced that\u00a0<em>Star Wars: Episode VIII<\/em>, originally scheduled for release in summer 2017, will now debut on December 15, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows the extraordinary success of\u00a0<em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em>, which was the first\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0movie to premiere outside the traditional summer blockbuster window and smashed numerous records, including biggest domestic and global debuts of all time as well as the biggest domestic second and third weekends, en route to becoming the highest grossing domestic release of all time with over $861.3\u00a0million\u00a0and the third biggest global release ever with\u00a0$1,886.7\u00a0billion.<\/p>\n<p>Written and directed by Rian Johnson,<em>\u00a0Star Wars: Episode VIII<\/em>\u00a0is currently in preproduction and will begin principal photography in London next month. Kathleen Kennedy and Ram Bergman will produce and J.J. Abrams, Jason McGatlin, and Tom Karnowski will executive produce. Stay tuned for exciting updates in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Disney and Lucasfilm announced that\u00a0Star Wars: Episode VIII, originally scheduled for release in summer 2017, will now debut on December 15, 2017. The move follows the extraordinary success of\u00a0Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which was the first\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0movie to premiere outside the traditional summer blockbuster window and smashed numerous records, including biggest domestic and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2016\/01\/20\/episode-viii-rescheduled-for-december-2017-release\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Episode VIII Rescheduled for December 2017 Release<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[85,635,73],"class_list":["post-27837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie_news","tag-disney","tag-episode-viii","tag-lucasfilm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27837","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=27837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27840,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27837\/revisions\/27840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}