LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The next movie within the Star Wars” franchise will arrive in theaters on December 18, 2015, Walt Disney Co said on Thursday, two weeks after producers hired a brand new author to shepherd the script into production.
For the studios this meant a confusion as to precisely what the formula was that made Star Wars engaging to audiences. Since science fiction/fantasy films have been more expensive to make, the danger was that more cash could possibly be lost ought to the film flop. For just a few different studios the formula was easy: space ships, robots, laser beams, and an evil area station the hero blows up within the final reel. Formula or not, after the summer of 1977 every studio was wishing that they had their own model of Star Wars. Disney purchased Star Wars” producer Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion in 2012 and promised not … Read more