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Geek Tyrant
13 hours ago
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- Geek Tyrant
New Updates For Taika Waititi and Shawn Levy's Upcoming STAR WARS Movies — GeekTyrant
There's been movement in the galaxy far, far away. Lucasfilm's Star Wars slate is finally showing signs of life with two highly anticipated projects, Taika Waititi's long-gestating film and Shawn Levy's Star Wars: Starfighter , both getting new updates. Waititi's mysterious Star Wars project has been in development limbo since it was first announced five years ago. Now, it finally has a working title: Cosmic Doom . The production will reportedly go by the name Ghost Truck 6 , according to Nexus Point News. Details about the plot are still under tight wraps, but Waititi is set to direct from a script written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Tony McNamara ( The Favourite , Poor Things ). Despite the delays, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy remains optimistic about the project and is allowing Waititi full creative breathing room. 'Taika is on Taika time. I've just continually said to him, look, when you feel that you're ready and you can really devote the time, we're going to do it. We'll be waiting. I'm just hoping we get there. That will be a great Star Wars movie.' Waititi previously talked about the project, saying: "I've been developing [the Star Wars film] for a few years, but I think with any film, but that one in particular, it's something I'd really like to get right, so I don't want to rush it. It's going to bubble along on the side." "I wanna capture that joy and entertainment of those early ones like The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and all those ones, so I'm trying to figure that out. It'll happen." The director also came out and said: "It will pause...a Taika Waititi film. It's gonna piss people off." Waititi has explained that he's looking to create something new with the franchise and expand the universe beyond all of the characters and locations that we're familiar with. While Waititi's film still doesn't have a release date, Shawn Levy's Star Wars: Starfighter is much further along. The studio is targeting a production start this September in London with filming expected to wrap in December. The movie, starring Ryan Gosling and Mia Goth, is set for a theatrical release on May 28, 2027. Initially developed under the working title Kyber Mist with the production name Blue Mist Productions , Starfighter is described as a standalone story set five years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker . According to the studio, the film 'is an entirely new adventure featuring all-new characters set in a period of time that has not been explored on screen yet.' With both films promising fresh characters and timelines outside the main Skywalker saga, these updates mark a hopeful shift for Star Wars storytelling on the big screen. It's been a quiet stretch for the franchise theatrically, but things are starting to look more active on the hyperspace horizon.
Time Out
15 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
George Lucas gave a sneak peek of the Lucas Museum at Comic-Con
The Force was strong in San Diego over the weekend as George Lucas made his Comic-Con debut. The Star Wars creator joined Oscar-winning artist and Lucasfilm senior vice president Doug Chiang, Oscar-winning filmmaker and Lucas Museum board member Guillermo del Toro and panel moderator Queen Latifah to talk about what Angelenos—and the scores of people the museum will undoubtedly draw to L.A.—have to look forward to from the eagerly awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. 'We're here today because my dear friend Goerge wanted to create a space where anyone could come and be inspired by the same art that inspired him,' Queen Latifah said to introduce Lucas. And while it was light on concrete details (like a specific opening date), the panel featured an interesting discussion of the upcoming museum that drew over 6,000 to Hall H on the final day of this year's Comic-Con. The creative minds assembled talked about the importance of narrative art—which 'tells the story of a society' and its common beliefs, according to Lucas—and shared some of the highlights of the museum's collection. Speaking to the Comic-Con crowd about the mission of the museum, Lucas explained that he's worked with hundreds of illustrators in his career, but lamented the fact that they don't receive enough recognition. To that end, he said his museum will be 'a temple to the people's art.' On his part, Chiang said he hopes that the Lucas Museum 'will inspire the next Norman Rockwell or Frank Frazetta.' And now for a bit of background on the museum itself. By now you're likely familiar with the verdant spaceship that's landed in Exposition Park between the Natural History Museum and the L.A. Memorial Coliseum. The curvaceous building topped with solar panels and gardens adds something decidedly different to L.A.'s architectural scene. Work on the $1-billion museum first broke ground in March 2018 after Los Angeles was chosen as the museum's home (San Francisco and Chicago were the other contenders). But due to delays including pandemic-related supply-chain issues, the opening date has been pushed back from 2021 to 2022 to 2023 to 2025 to finally (fingers crossed!) 2026. Situated on 11 acres, once it's completed the five-story, 300,000-square-foot museum will feature not only gallery space but two state-of-the-art theaters, as well as classrooms, a library, dining options and a gift shop. Outside, the lush landscaping is a draw unto itself—the green spaces will double as a public park open to all, no ticket needed. Inside the galleries, you'll find more than an institutionalized shrine to Star Wars, as might be expected. In fact, the 'Narrative Art' part of the museum's moniker reflects a collection Lucas has been amassing for the past 50 years, made up of tens of thousands of artworks that reflect the importance of illustrated storytelling. So you'll find pieces by Norman Rockwell, Frida Kahlo, Jack Kirby, R. Crumb, Beatrix Potter, N.C. Wyeth, photographer Dorothea Lange and more modern names like cartoonist Alison Bechdel all under the same roof—in short, something for everyone. Some recently announced collection highlights include the first-ever Flash Gordon comic strip, an original splash page from Black Panther (1968) and original Peanuts strips from the 1950s and '60s.
Gizmodo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
A Life-Size Naboo Starfighter Will Be Among the Highlights of George Lucas' New Museum
To close out San Diego Comic-Con with a bang, George Lucas made his first appearance at the long-running pop culture fest alongside filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and award-winning Lucasfilm designer Doug Chiang. But the panel topic wasn't a new Star Wars project; it was the importance of keeping art accessible to the public, especially during unprecedented times, at the Lucas Museum opening next year in Los Angeles. Fanboys, fret not, though—during a quick sizzle reel of featured works, eagle-eyed attendees were able to catch glimpses of renderings depicting a life-size Naboo Starfighter as part of the curated works. Additionally, there was a blink-and-you'll-miss-it look at General Grievous on his wheel bike as well as concept art for Indiana Jones. The Lucas Museum confirmed to io9 that these works are included in the museum's collections, with more announcements to come about its inaugural installations. io9 previously reported that the collection would also include Luke's full-size landspeeder from A New Hope, the original plans and model for the Millennium Falcon, a Darth Vader costume, and a full-sized Yoda model. Mostly, though, the panel centered a conversation about storytelling and the importance of accessibility. 'This museum is dedicated to the idea that stories, mythology—any kind of story that is written to affect people and to build community—is extremely important to society and creating societies and creating community,' Lucas explained. 'Art illustrates that story, and that's the right hand of building a community: you need the art to make it seem real. Even back in the Renaissance or the Stone Age, you'll always have a story that people believe is mythology: it's not really true. But people believe it and it binds them together with a common belief system. That common belief system is what is really important. And what we're doing here with the museum is to try to make people aware of the mythology that we live by. And at the same time, let them have an emotional experience looking at art that does tell the modern mythology.' He continued. 'The art part of it is a way of making it really accessible to people and [making] it so they believe it.' 'It's part of what we need to keep society together. Even if it's tough, a lot of the art centers around those ideas of what we believe in and how important [it] is to us to have a community and to be able to build off of a common belief, and it's especially true today because of the fact that the world is becoming a smaller place. There are a lot of different common beliefs out there. It used to be easy because they were far away and it was hard to get to them, to interact with that. But now, we're experiencing, in a lot of ways, the fact that there [are] a lot of different beliefs and there's a lot that aren't common. And the society cannot exist without a common belief system.' Guillermo del Toro, who serves as a member of the board, discussed the hope that the tenets of the museum will contribute to the fight for knowledge in a time where there's rampant erasure of history. 'Stories shape the world. Stories that tell you the wrong thing about who you are or what you should be to other people because one of the narrative branches that is brutally applied is propaganda. And I think that the illustration art is not only celebrating the craft of incredible people that have designed movies and art,' he said. Del Toro went on to mention some of those great artists—including Ralph McQuarrie, Ron Cobb, and Jim Steranko—and drove the point home about the Lucas Museum's guiding vision. 'It's also celebrating an emotional thing that belongs to all of us. Myth belongs to all of us, propaganda is controlled by a very small group. Myth unites us; propaganda divides us.' Del Toro continued. 'Popular mythology in forms of comic books of any kind—I don't care if you like underground comics or edgy comics that have nothing to do with genre or you like a genre piece, it's that we all can access those emotions. That's why they don't belong to the man, they don't belong to the power, they don't belong to our parents, they belong to us.' He described the 300,000-square-foot Lucas Museum as an ark; its design by Ma Yansong features no hard edges as a way to reflect the flow of knowledge. 'I think this is celebrating things that speak to all of us collectively but individually. So the size of the museum again declares this in existence in a way that is a singularity in the world right now,' del Toro said. 'And [it's] something that can celebrate that form of art.' Academy Award-winning designer and longtime Lucasfilm collaborator Doug Chiang credited the popular arts, which San Diego Comic-Con celebrates annually, for inspiring his career path alongside access to public communal spaces that didn't gatekeep it. 'Comic art and magazine illustration were kind of looked down upon…but it was a way for me to enjoy art, and it invited me to learn more about art,' he shared, and as an LA native whose career is due in part to a love for museums, libraries, Free Comic Book Day, and PBS, I have to agree. It's a way for everyone, not just a select few, to look for purpose. There's a reason why the museum is located by Lucas' alma mater, USC. Incidentally, USC hosts the LA Times Festival of Books, where I picked up my first chapter read, Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera. Chiang added, 'It's [George's] gift to sort of help celebrate this, and what I really enjoy about it honestly is that you know narrative art is a way to educate kids and to sort of like validate and say, 'It's ok to draw your fantasy, draw things from your mind, embrace comic books.' It shouldn't be looked down upon, and what's fantastic is that I think the museum—my hope is that it will inspire the next Norman Rockwell or Frank Frazetta.' Or, you know, the next Doug, Guillermo, or George. The Lucas Museum is set to open its doors in 2026; for more information, visit here. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
Epoch Times
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Epoch Times
George Lucas Unveils New Museum During First Comic-Con Appearance in San Diego
'Star Wars' creator George Lucas made his first appearance at Comic-Con International in San Diego over the weekend, giving thousands of fans a sneak peek at his forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, set to open in Los Angeles next year. 'This is sort of a temple to the people's art,' Lucas, 81, said on Sunday while speaking on a panel with veteran production designer Doug Chiang and Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who serves on the board of the museum. 'This museum is dedicated to the idea that ... any kind of story that is written to affect people and to build community is extremely important to society,' the 'Indiana Jones' creator said elsewhere during the conversation. 'Art illustrates that story, and that's the right hand of building a community, is you need the art to make it seem real.' Lucas first announced the project back in 2017. According to a July 27 press release, the museum will serve as 'the world's first institution dedicated to the exploration of narrative art, celebrating illustrated storytelling across eras and cultures, from ancient cave drawings and children's book illustrations to comic books and digital media.' Lucas co-founded the museum with his wife, Mellody Hobson. Once opened, it will showcase a variety of narrative artworks from the award-winning filmmaker's extensive 40,000-piece art collection, including the first-ever 'Flash Gordon' comic strip and original 'Peanuts' strips dating back to the 1950s and 1960s. During the discussion, the panel's moderator, singer Queen Latifah, revealed that Lucas had been stockpiling his vast repertoire of artworks for more than 50 years. 'I've been collecting art since I was in college,' Lucas told the audience at Comic-Con. 'I couldn't really afford real art. I love all art, no matter what it is, but I could afford comic art because in those days it was underground.' The new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be housed in Los Angeles's Exposition Park, located across the street from the University of Southern California. In addition to the gallery spaces, the 300,000-square-foot facility, which was designed by renowned architect Ma Yansong, will feature two theaters, a retail store, a library, a café, a restaurant, and several event spaces. Chiang, the senior vice president of Lucasfilm, praised Lucas and Hobson for exposing younger generations to the art of visual storytelling. 'Comic art and magazine illustration were kind of looked down upon, but it was a way for me to enjoy art, and it invited me to learn more about art,' he shared. 'What I love about what George and Mellody are doing with this museum is they are acknowledging and giving respect to artists who really haven't been highlighted before.'
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fans react as George Lucas makes first-ever appearance at Comic-Con
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — On the final day of Comic-Con, fans in San Diego were treated to a moment that was truly historic. For the first time in the convention's history, Star Wars creator George Lucas appeared onstage at the iconic pop culture event. Lucas joined fellow Oscar winners Guillermo del Toro and Doug Chiang for a Sunday morning panel that filled Hall H to capacity. Jerry Vanderstelt is known for his fine art reproductions and original Star Wars-themed work. He's been a regular at Comic-Con for nearly two decades and says the event has had a profound impact on his life. 'Some of the best things that have ever happened in my career were because of San Diego Comic-Con,' he said. George Lucas, Guillermo del Toro give first look at narrative art museum at Comic-Con On Sunday, things came full circle for Vanderstelt as Lucas took the stage, marking his first-ever Comic-Con panel appearance. 'It's wonderful that he participates in the pop culture of today, especially as the man who created a movie that changed film forever,' Vanderstelt said. Over at booth 2135, illustrator and fan Russell Walks reflected on Lucas's influence. Years ago, Walks pitched a trading card series based on Joseph Campbell's 'Hero's Journey' to Lucasfilm. He was initially turned down, but he didn't give up. Instead, he wrote a letter directly to Lucas. 'I get goosebumps when I talk about it,' Walks said. 'A month or so later, I got a phone call from Lucasfilm. It was George's secretary, and she read a note he had left her to read to me. It just said, 'I love the artwork you sent. I like the note even more. We're going to give you permission to do this story.'' During the panel, Lucas and Del Toro teased the upcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a project that's quickly becoming a must-see for fans. 'My favorite part was actually hearing the stories between George and Guillermo del Toro,' one fan said. 'They talked about the importance of narrative art, and how it's something we borrow for a time, then pass along to the next generation.' For artists like Walks, the moment was about more than nostalgia. 'To persevere, and to realize that Star Wars in general is more than just lightsabers and laser blasts, it's about redemption and finding what you're made to do, and doing it,' he said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
