Star Wars Episode VIII isn’t the only upcoming Disney movie with a release date change. Disney have announced that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ release date has been pushed up to May 26th, 2017.
A statement from Disney reads as follows:
“Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales will set sail on May 26, 2017, from its previously scheduled July 7, 2017, berth. The blockbuster franchise’s previous installment, the $1B-grossing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, also debuted in late May.
In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Johnny Depp returns as Captain Jack Sparrow with Geoffrey Rush back on board as Barbossa, Orlando Bloom resurfacing as Will Turner, and a terrifying new adversary, Captain Salazar, played by Javier Bardem, in the mix. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, the film is currently in post-production.”
Thoughts on this news? Are you excited for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales?
Sony have announced that Tom Holland’s first Spider-Man solo movie will now be released on July 7th, 2017. This moves it up a few weeks from its previous release date of July 28th, 2017.
The move was made with Sony’s producing partner Disney which saw four movies exchange their release dates- Star Wars: Episode VIII was moved from May 26, 2017 to December 15, 2017. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales then moved from July 7, 2017 to that May 26 slot.
Sony’s Jumanji reboot is the film now scheduled for release on July 28th, 2017.
Thoughts on this news? Are you excited for Tom Holland’s first Spider-Man solo movie?
Rumours have recently been swirling around that Star Wars Episode VIII’s production has been delayed due to director Rian Johnson needing to do a script re-write. Lucasfilm has now announced that this is the case and the film will now be released on December 15th, 2017.
Production on Episode VIII will begin in London next month. The production had been delayed by one month due to the script re-write.
Thoughts on this news? Are you happy or disappointed about the release date being pushed back?
A new 15-second TV spot for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has been released.
You can watch the TV spot (titled “Don’t Forget”) below:
The TV spot was released during The CW’s Dawn of the Justice League special.
“Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.”
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice opens worldwide on March 25th, 2016.
Thoughts on the TV spot? Are you excited for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?
In addition to the featurettes on Jason Momoa’s Aquaman and Ezra Miller’s The Flash, The CW’s Dawn of the Justice League special released a featurette on Ray Fisher’s Cyborg- which revealed new details on the character.
You can watch the featurette discussing the new details below (as well as showing concept art of the character):
DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns is quoted as saying the following:
“Victor Stone is an athlete, whose father is a scientist. Victor is in a horrible accident and it is only through his father’s talents and skills in technology that he survives. But he survives only because he’s rebuilt into a cyborg. He’s online 24/7. He doesn’t sleep. He just takes in data.”
Cyborg’s actor Ray Fisher had the following to add:
“He is a technopath, which means he can just interface seamlessly with anything technological. His greatest weakness is actually trying not to succumb to the technology. Trying to stay human.”
The Cyborg movie is scheduled for release on April 3rd, 2020.
Thoughts on the featurette? Are you excited to see Ray Fisher as Cyborg?
The CW’s Dawn of the Justice League special also released a featurette on Ezra Miller’s The Flash- which revealed new details on the character.
You can watch the featurette discussing the new details below (as well as showing concept art of the character):
The Flash actor Ezra Miller is quoted as saying the following:
“He’s been struck by the lightning, that’s the mythos, but he’s a human. He can run through walls, he can run across water, he can run so fast that he can move into another plane of frequency where there’s another reality.”
DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns said the following in addition:
“The thing about The Flash is, the past isn’t just a thing he can think about, it’s an actual place he can visit.”
The Flash movie is scheduled for release on March 23rd, 2018.
Thoughts on the featurette? Are you excited to see Ezra Miller as The Flash?
New details on Jason Momoa’s Aquaman were revealed during the DC Comics special Dawn of the Justice League, which aired on The CW.
You can watch a video showing concept art from the Aquaman movie and discussing the new details below:
DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns is quoted as saying the following:
“First, we got Aquaman. His name is Arthur Curry, he’s the son of a lighthouse keeper and the Queen of Atlantis. He starts to develop these powers. He can breathe under water. He can communicate with sea life. He’s very strong. He grows up not really feeling like he belongs in either world. So he’s man trapped between two worlds, but has a responsibility to protect both of them.”
Aquaman’s actor Jason Momoa also added the following:
“He’s the only one that both: he’s human and he’s a god. I want to see him struggle with how he has these powers and he doesn’t know how to handle them, he hasn’t been trained.”
The Aquaman movie is scheduled for release on July 27th, 2018.
Thoughts on the featurette? Are you excited to see Jason Momoa as Aquaman?
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been out for just over a month now, but crew members are hard at work preparing for the filming of Episode VIII at Pinewood Studios. A new rumour has suggested that a location from The Force Awakens is being recreated for Episode VIII.
Spoilers for The Force Awakens are below so this is your SPOILER alert warning.
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The Skellig Michael sets (the location used for the Rey and Luke Skywalker scene at the end of The Force Awakens) are supposedly being recreated on sound stages and backlots at Pinewood.
The rumour says the following:
“The Skellig Michael sets have been built and in some cases recreated at Pinewood. The location of the set at Pinewood is the same place they filmed the Jakku village scenes for The Force Awakens. Filming at Skellig Michael was just too complicated for environmental reasons. Migrating birds have more power than any corporation over that isle.”
Thoughts on this rumour? Are you hoping to see this location again in Episode VIII?
