Star Wars Weekly Social Buzz: New Lucasfilm Animation Show on the Horizon, No Han Solo Trilogy, Daisy Ridley With New Gig and More
This week we have lots of interesting topics to discuss. Read on for the latest development around Daisy Ridley, a few hints about new Lucasfilm animation show, some insight from Pablo Hidalgo on the rumor that there will be a Han Solo trilogy and more…
First we start with the development around the sad news that Daisy Ridley has deleted her Instagram account. This happened shortly after the actress posted a statement against gun violence after the Teen Choice Awards, which made some people leave not so pleasant comments to her post. Here’s what she said:
Thinking about how lucky I am like… Serious bit: as I sat in the audience yesterday tears were streaming down my face at the tribute to those that have been lost to gun violence. I didn’t get a great picture of the incredible group that came onstage but they were so brave. It was a true moment of togetherness. We must #stoptheviolence.
Then came the backlash which we can’t quote here since the Instagram account is no longer active.
While stars often abuse their platform in the spotlight to push their own political agendas, we at Star Wars News Net do not believe that was the case here. Like all of us, Daisy is a human being and was simply expressing her own humanity in her post. Regardless of one’s stance on gun control or police brutality, any loss of life is a tragedy, and to berate someone for expressing their heartfelt sadness over such a tragedy is beyond comprehension. To put it bluntly, we are embarrassed for these thoughtless individuals and question their own connection to humanity.
She also got support from her colleague and friend John Boyega, who was asked by fans to convince Daisy to join Instagram again:
John via Instagram about Daisy Ridley pic.twitter.com/lL3U6PAQLd
— Daily John Boyega (@dailyjohnboyega) August 2, 2016
Later Daisy reactivated her account just to post one message and then deleted it again (via Imgur):
And to support Daisy’s words it was just revealed that she signed to star in the post apocalyptic thriller Chaos Walking, directed by Doug Liman. (via Variety):
“Chaos Walking: The Knife of Never Letting Go,” published in 2008 as the first book in a trilogy, is set in a dystopian world where all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts.
The book is centered on the only boy in a town of men, who makes a startling discovery that forces him to flee with only his dog in hand. With the townspeople in pursuit, the duo stumbles upon a strange and silent girl. They set off on a white-knuckle journey in which the boy must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.
Daisy has been a constant breath of fresh air on social media, and we are sad to see her close her account. While her response to the Instagram community about why she closed her account may have just been a way to smooth things over, we remain hopeful that she will return once again in the future to bring a little more sunshine to us all. Until then we can at least enjoy her posts over to her Facebook account, which is still active.
Animation TV writer and creator Jennifer Muro posted some curious tweets hinting at a future involvement with Lucasfilm. Later she removed some of them but you can see the text below.
Lothcat’s out of the bag. Bottom line: it’s a new thing & I’ve taken my first step into a larger world. #Lucasfilm pic.twitter.com/tet6ZkHb4o
— Jen Muro (@JENmuro) August 3, 2016
4those privately asking about Lucasfilm, yes I’m the writer & no it’s not something on the air now. That’s all I can say! & Thx 4all the❤️!
— Jen Muro (@JENmuro) August 3, 2016
@TheEricGoldman Thanks so much! It’s going to be something new and different and I can’t wait.
— Jen Muro (@JENmuro) August 3, 2016
Muro worked in the past on animation TV series such as Care Bears, Sponge Bob, Dora the Explorer and many more. It’s clear that her involvement with LFL will be for an animation project. Her tweet also confirms that it’s a new show, so we can exclude Rebels. Also making an animation show for Indiana Jones, before the franchise is reintroduced with the new movie doesn’t make sense at all. So our best guess is that she will be involved with new and different Star Wars animation show. Can’t wait for that!
We’re getting closer to the new canon novel about Grand Admiral Thrawn by Timothy Zahn due to release on April 11. 2017! Now you can pre-order the book.
Guess what? #StarWars #THRAWN by Timothy Zahn is finally available for preorder. Follow here for ALL the links: https://t.co/NujV1QvqIe
— Star Wars Books (@DelReyStarWars) August 3, 2016
The cover for Jason Fry’s Rogue One: Secret Mission fact book has been revealed:
The cover for @jasoncfry‘s #StarWars #RogueOne: Secret Mission has finally been uploaded! https://t.co/XLZQbx1FzY pic.twitter.com/TBLYXOYviO
— Florian B (@germanjedi) August 1, 2016
Some Rogue One Black Series figures have been spotted. Here’s a first look at 2-KSO, Captain Cassian and a Death Trooper:
#RogueOne Black Series found! (https://t.co/pfcx3WyL3x) #StarWars pic.twitter.com/fejkyA7MpU
— Star Wars Junk (@StarWarsJunk) August 3, 2016
New fantastic The Force Awakens image by Andree Wallin, showing an early concept art of the Resistance base:
After R2-D2 and BB-8, now C-3PO has a themed ANA plane:
3PO is honoured by ANA’s new plane. Tho not keen on space travel, he does look forward to flying this elegant craft. pic.twitter.com/Laai6NyZbV
— Anthony Daniels (@ADaniels3PO) July 21, 2016
The new Star Wars Insider is out, featuring an article on Rey by Tricia Barr:
New issue of @SW_Insider on newsstands includes my article on Rey. Look for Issue 167 #STEM #StarWars #HeresRey https://t.co/4aGzBuaCyF
— Tricia Barr (@fangirlcantina) August 5, 2016
LFL Story Group’s Leland Chee on “Your Snoke Theory Sucks”:
It’s not that your Snoke theory actually sucks, it’s that you’re looking to me for some form of validation that you know I can’t give you.
— Leland Chee (@HolocronKeeper) July 31, 2016
The latest from Pablo Hidalgo.
On if there is going to be a Han Solo Trilogy:
@bryanbleano No one’s said anything about a trilogy. Stop panicking at what the Internet baits you to click.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) July 31, 2016
On who is the source of the stand-alone movies currently in development:
From last year’s Future Filmmaker panel. The standalone ideas in development came from George Lucas, the exception being Rogue One. FYI
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) July 30, 2016
I still wonder if the third stand-alone movie is indeed currently in development, or perhaps they are waiting to see how Rogue One is accepted and decide which way to go after that. As you know the third “A Star Wars Story” movie is expected to be released in 2020 and it is supposed to be the movie that Josh Trank was hired to do.
On who is making the creative calls:
@jdgcrl Creative development of Star Wars happens at Lucasfilm.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) July 29, 2016
On who are the villagers at the beginning of The Force Awakens:
@TheDailyMiks They’re a spiritual enclave but I don’t think they’re part of the Church. Lor was.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) July 31, 2016
On the role of the original cast in The Force Awakens:
@Galactic_Kark That was the function of 7. To use the familiar to launch the new. With that our of the way, I hope you like what’s next.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) July 31, 2016
Well, this rule surely doesn’t apply for Luke. We will definitely see more from him in Episode VIII, but probably it won’t be too much. 🙂
On the fans’ casting desires
@pablohidalgo @RKORollins what does that have to do with anything? Ewan McGregor is all about reprising his role and fans want it..
— Jackson Williams (@JacksonEmphasis) July 31, 2016
@JacksonEmphasis @RKORollins No idea what one has to do with another. People seem convinced the Solo movie took Kenobi’s parking space.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) July 31, 2016
On the progression of the design between the OT and the PT:
The disparity of design in the prequels vs the originals isn’t about tech level. It’s about culture. pic.twitter.com/hXQQnGb3bs
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) May 18, 2016
In case you’re confused, here’s an explanation (although I think it was pretty clear). 🙂
@derekjohnsonsim huh? I was explaining something to people who didn’t understand the progression of design.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) May 18, 2016
@derekjohnsonsim it’s a 30s car from a handcrafted age vs. a machine stamped car from an automated age. That was the point.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) May 18, 2016
@derekjohnsonsim I am saying the beautiful design is from the prequels. The prequels are the Dusenberg. The classics are the Yugo.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) May 18, 2016
Special thanks to 1030th General Rieekan from the Cantina forums for always being an incredible help with the tweets!
Stay tuned for more next week.
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Oh the lengths people will go to actually be offended. Isn’t school all about ‘self-love’ these days? How hasn’t that sunk in????
Because why have self-love when you have a victim complex instead? It certainly works for SJWs.
Social justice is one thing – that stuff is real.
I’m talking about movies and the internet. It’s fiction, people. Fiction that hasn’t even been written about yet lmao (Snoke, etc.)
People on the internet are the fucking worst. Good for Daisy.
Except for you, me, Viral Hide, Crankypants and certain others. 🙂
Oh I dunno. I’m a HUGE asshole.
Come on, I never saw you make dick moves here.
Oh God, I remember the Kenneth Branagh thing. Not that I think he’s bad (I actually recall enjoying that Frankenstein movie he did which everyone hated / laughed at). At the time Ewan was basically only known for Trainspotting and that’s a very different character.
Remember rumors that Jet Li was gonna be Boba Fett?
Gabriel Byrne. Christopher Walken. Sigh. Good times on AICN.
Wait a minute. You used to hang around on the AICN forums? Was your handle Mr Biddle by any chance?
Yes, and no, in that order. I used to fight with “Hey, Yo! That’s so DRAVEN!” and was one of the victims in the mass banning for daring to criticize…who the hell was it who later apologized for the banning by saying he was sorry he hadn’t taken a baseball bat to us all? what, a year or so ago though – does that get me street cred?
I think that’s either before or after my time
A year ago is way after my time. I used to be on there in 1999 until they shut the forums down to move to another platform some time in the early 2000s at which point all the regulars set up a board elsewhere.
Yeah, I started hanging out there in the run up to ’99 because they had the best TPM scoops, and I made the leap to the new platform, but the writing on that site, along with scoops, features, the general level of discourse, and basically the reason anyone goes to any website, has completely fallen apart – don’t miss it in the least.
I haven’t looked at the site itself for years. I don’t think I even used to very much when I was active on the forums there.
who’s this derek johnson idiot?
Cut from the same cloth as that guy here who is all “BLOCKED FOR DISRESPECTING THE CREATOR” every time someone says anything remotely negative about the prequels.
Well are you saying it’s karma?? ;P
Careful, or you’ll get “BLOCKED FOR DISRESPECTING THE PERSON WHO BLOCKS PEOPLE FOR DISRESPECTING THE CREATOR” 🙂
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha
He’s one of those precious flower millennials who has such a victim complex that he managed to turn Pablo’s perfect pictorial explanation into “hate”. He’s also a dope.
Derek is the real definition of a troll. It’s funny everyone calls troll anyone that has a different opinion but they can’t recognize real trolls when they see them. Just look at his name and profile pic, it’s screaming TROLL. I can’t believe Pablo fell for it.
ohhh, the irony….
Is he a troll though? I mean, I get the impression PS really means this stuff – he’s not saying shit JUST to piss people off. That exchange with Hidalgo on the other hand just screams “DELIBERATELY MISSING THE POINT!!!!!!” to me.
Yes, PlatinumStar comes across as a troll some days and other days not so much.
A troll is someone who sows discord and starts arguments. Which is exactly what he does a lot.
But it’s not JUST about starting arguments. It’s got to be deliberate, and have no other purpose THAN to sow discord. To me he reads like someone who is just honestly very, very angry at Star Wars, and needs the world to know about it. Also girls will not touch his pee-pee.
The irony is in your comment.
Why is it all the production art I see for TFA is better than was actually in the film?
Compare that to the old days when you could see a definite progression from art to screen.
* Please don’t hate on me because I said something mildly negative about TFA.
I was about to make the same comment, and I mostly liked TFA.
Probably because the production art costs more money than the version in the film? The art is beautiful.
LOL, like Disney was tight on budget for TFA?? They could have put 800 million in the movie and still get back on their feet. You can put as much money as you want on the movie, if the director is a talentless hack, it won’t change anything
Ignorant user, go to IMDB where your comments belong.
I agree that the photography was mostly pretty mediocre. I can’t think of any really iconic compositions from TFA.
because they hired JJ Abrams to make the movie
Because the ships being in hanger would have been too close to the ships being in a hanger at the end of ANH. It would have involved the same shots.
So instead they gave us a war room that so easily could have been just off to the side in SW that pre-release many people assumed the film was returning to Yavin?
Exactly, so people would have complained either way – case in point. No use complaining about art done 2 and half years prior to the movie.
I’m just saying they clearly weren’t THAT bothered about repeating themselves.
All 7 Art of Star Wars Books feature art that looks better than their respective movies, from Ralph McQuarrie’s original concept paintings to Doug Chiang’s with the prequels. This is nothing new.
A quick check at Jen Muro’s imdb page to see who she ais and OMG, she is known for “Care Bears: Adventures” and other very kiddy animated cartoons. Who else do you want to write for Star Wars? Way to go Kathleen Kennedy!
Your time here is running out from your ignorance…!
Have you ever actually watched Care Bears? You might be surprised at some of the mature themes and nuanced characters.
LOL, no I didn’t
You should start. Like, I mean…right now. binge watch it in a single sitting. It’s that good.
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(That should keep him busy for a while.)
Fools like @derekjohnsonsim give fans a bad name… Pablo earned his pay in that exchange…
What, you mean by not actually LEAPING through his monitor and strangling that dumbass?
What do you mean by “dumbass”? Is that canon? Please stop hating on the prequels btw, I can’t take it any longer.
Man that guy is slow. Really the highest profile prequels defender ‘on the inside’ was agreeing with him and he turded out.
Probably because he’s a 12 year old or something. It’s a much less absurd reaction when you consider that possibility.
I wonder if Daisy Ridly would still want to ban guns if some creep broke into her living quarters and tried to hurt her? Seriously, woman are raped, mugged, and killed because they usually can’t defend themselves without a gun. That’s why its so important men and woman carry guns. Both of the presidential candidates have security men with guns. Its a necessity. I’m from the south and I can’t imagine what we would do without guns. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. With guns we know how to defend ourselves. Our founding fathers realized the need for Americans to defend themselves. Taking away guns was one of Hitlers key moves in murdering 6,000,000 Jews. However, its so pathetic to troll sweet Daisy because of your views. I’ve always felt that Star Wars was kinda of a place where we could put our politics aside and just have fun with a unique story. Nobody deserves to be trolled like that….
Yeah, guns are doing a great job keeping America safe. That’s why we never have problems with mass shootings, ever, or gun violence in general. Nobody has ever said that guns kill people by themselves. Total straw man. Criminals, mentally deranged people and terrorists kill people when they have unfettered access to as many weapons as they can get their hands on with no form of background check and weak gun laws thanks to gun advocates who work so hard to keep it that way. Presidential candidates have armed security because they are under constant threat of assassination to a degree not comparable in any way to the average American.
A place to put our politics aside yet you wave your crazy flag for all to see?
You forgot your Trump 2016 at the bottom of your post, bw.
“The south”, what a terrible excuse to impose your views on. I hate the term, and it has no place here, but I am from Texas and a staunch opponent of this “right to bare arms”. People with guns kill. People with guns have taken away friends and family. People with guns have committed massive acts of terrorism here in america. People with guns. Take away every gun. Because I would rather have my friend, or any child, over anyone’s right to wave a gun around to over-compensate. Our founding fathers lived in a different era, we live in a time of semi-automatic, fully-automatic weapons, easily hidden sidearms, And, above all, dangerous people. One day, I hope they do take your guns. I hope they take all of them. Because they can’t give back the people I’ve lost. But they can sure as hell take way what took them from me.
Well most of the gun deaths are suicides to be fair. They don’t tell you that though because they want you to be afraid.
Thanks the god there won’t’ be any Han Solo trilogy. I know Disney can’t be that stupid. One movie about him, good. But focus on him entire trilogy in universe so rich on stories like Star Wars is just foolish.
Thanks for all of the info guys. It’s quite a bit.
Animated Series: Please please let it be either Willow or Strange Magic!!!! 🙂
Just to wade in with something (hopefully) entirely non-contoversial, I’m stoked AF for those new Black Series figs…anyone have more info on them?
Lol. The Derek Johnson guy is a classic example of raging fanboyism. hahaha