First Star Wars Spin-Off Movie Gets Cinematographer: Greig Fraser.
While Episode VII seems to be all the rage on the internet, Disney’s plans for Star Wars films down the line are not as frequently discussed. Nonetheless, news recently broke out about Gareth Edward’s Star Wars spin-off movie: he will be enlisting the help of Greig Fraser, best known for his work on Snow White and the Huntsman and Zero Dark Thirty, to take charge of the movie’s cinematography.
From Collider:
During a great interview with Kris Tapley over at In Contention, Fraser reveals that he will indeed be acting as the cinematographer on Edwards’ Star Wars spinoff:
“I’m doing a f***ing Star Wars movie, which is like – I don’t know about you but Star Wars is like my first film love, do you know what I mean?… Gareth is doing a standalone film. Of course I do know some specifics, but it’s obviously something I’ve signed my kidneys away for.”
What’s promising about this news is that Fraser’s sensibilities are very different from those of Dan Mindel, who is the cinematographer on Episode VII. While I don’t doubt that all of these Star Wars films will visually look like they inhabit the same universe, I’m encouraged by the fact that Lucasfilm really seems to be putting together a diverse lineup of filmmakers to bring these new Star Wars stories to fruition.
So it appears that, while filming of Episode VII wraps up, pre-production on the first of many spin-offs is now underway. Now, if only we could get a title…
Gareth Edward’s movie is slated for a December 16, 2016 release.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
Hopefully there will be a little bit more of transparency for the upcoming movies. I think there might be more for the stand alone films than the ST ones.
As far as details go? Yeah, definitely. Abrams is known for keeping the cat in the bag, but while I imagine that the other filmmakers won’t go about spoiling their films, I also don’t see them being nearly as secretive. Once the era is clearly established, it’d make sense that we’d see more details come out earlier.
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I just hope they make a Obi-wan Kenobi Movie and give the role to Ewan McGregor again. That would be great!
Zero dark thirty was probably the most boring war movie I’ve ever seen… but that’s probably not his fault… I haven’t seen his other work.
I was hoping that JJ Abrams would be heavily involved in all Starwars Movies. This would be so wonderful as then he would finally stay out of Star Trek. JJs Star Trek 9 is one of the most pathetic and emotionally retared movies of all time. I suppose in Starwars he might be doint a better job, at least so far he has not completely missunderstood the premis by rebooting it. I still cant beleve he ruined years of wonderful complex Trek character and diplomacy by rebooting it. What an arrogant descission, simply because the storry was to complicated for his interlect.
Star Trek sucks so he had that to deal with.
I don’t think Star Trek sucks. Maybe the Kirk-stuff did, which is what JJ decided to go back to. It’s very differnt from Starwars, which I also like a lot. But if you don’t like Star Trek, which was about starships with carpets, diplomacy and moral discussions in turbolifts, you don’t have to watch it. And one certanly should not work on it!! I like diversity. And that JJ Abrams now runs two of the most important SF Franchises is NOT GOOD for diversity. I agree he seems to do a great job with Starwars, from what we see sofar. But he did ruin Startrek, at least for me. I mean Garak, Gul Dukat, Comander Tomalek, were among the best vilains of all times. All with classical shakespearean tragic arcs, and complex characters. To reboot the universe and replace them with bearded romulans is an act of increadable arrogance and discrespect for all the brilliant writers before JJ.
Just imagine he had rebooted The original ST movies, and replaced the Palpatin with a bearded monkey.