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‘Star Wars VIII’ Gets a Release Date; Spinoff Movie Gets a Title
Big Star Wars news coming out of Disney and Lucasfilm’s annual shareholder pow-wow. Variety reports that:
Rian Johnson has also been confirmed to write and direct the as yet untitled Star Wars: Episode VIII, which will hit theaters May 26, 2017.
Gareth Edwards upcoming standalone film, starring Felicity Jones, will be called Rogue One. The movie starts filming in London this summer and opens Dec. 16, 2016.
“Rogue One” is the call-sign of Rogue leader, the commander of Rogue Squadron. In the original trilogy, Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles both held these titles at one time. There have been a ton of them in the Expanded Universe, including Han and Leia’s daughter Jaina Solo and one of my favorite characters Corran Horn (I, Jedi is still one of my favorite EU books). Since Disney is conveniently pretending the EU doesn’t exist, I’d bank on a brand new character being leader in Rogue One, but I’d flip my shit if they brought Corran Horn to life.
The idea of a standalone Star Wars film centering on Rogue Squadron sounds awesome though and suggests some large scale dogfights and an epic scale. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Edwards’ Godzilla, but hopefully he goes big without forgetting about the human angle.
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While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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