{"id":1415,"date":"2015-03-13T16:40:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:50:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:50:15","slug":"star-wars-episode-viii-and-stand-alone-film-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2015\/03\/13\/star-wars-episode-viii-and-stand-alone-film-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: Episode VIII And Stand-alone Film News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SWTFALogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1421\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SWTFALogo-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"SWTFA Logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SWTFALogo.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SWTFALogo.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, across the street from Lucasfilm, Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger hosted a shareholder meeting where he announced news regarding the first Star Wars stand-alone movie as well as Star Wars: Episode VIII.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Rogue One<\/em><\/strong> is the title for the first film in a unique series of big-screen adventures that explores the characters and events beyond the core Star Wars saga. <strong><em>Rogue One<\/em><\/strong> will be directed by Gareth Edwards (Monsters, Godzilla) and written by Oscar nominee Chris Weitz (<em>Cinderella<\/em>, <em>About a Boy<\/em>, <em>Antz<\/em>). The first actress cast is Felicity Jones who garnered an Academy Award nomination and critical acclaim for her performance in<em> The Theory of Everything<\/em>. The film is due for release on December 16, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Iger confirmed that Rian Johnson will write and direct <strong><em>Star Wars: Episode VIII<\/em><\/strong>. The film, which continues the saga after the events of <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=erLk59H86ww\">Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>(18 December 2015), is set for release on May 26, 2017 \u2014 forty years and a day after the release of <strong><em>Star Wars: A New Hope<\/em><\/strong> in 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, across the street from Lucasfilm, Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger hosted a shareholder meeting where he announced news regarding the first Star Wars stand-alone movie as well as Star Wars: Episode VIII. Rogue One is the title for the first film in a unique&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2015\/03\/13\/star-wars-episode-viii-and-stand-alone-film-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Star Wars: Episode VIII And Stand-alone Film News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}