Star Wars Bits: Standalone Rumors, Force Awakens Art And Celebration Events
When an installment of Star Wars Bits contains possibleForce Awakensspoilers and love connections, you know it’s going to be good. Below, read about the following:
Fresh off Tuesday’snews of potential castinginGareth Edwards' mysterious 2016Star Wars standalonefilm comes a few other mini-nuggets of information about the film.Making Star Warsreports crew members are beginning to get their schedules for the production and that many believe this film will have more location shooting thanThe Force Awakens. There’s also a rumor some of that filming might take place in Mexico.
The same story also reportsThe Force Awakensis doing some additional photography, which could mean anything. Most big films have additional shooting planned from the beginning at this point.
One of the actors who may be taking part in that isLeanne Best, who can currently be seen inThe Woman in Black 2. A PR e-mail reported on byTotal Geeksreveals she has a part in theJ.J. Abramsdirected film. No word on what that part is, of course.
Official Disney and Lucasfilm artistRobert Baileyhas been posting artistic representations fromStar Wars: The Force Awakenson his Facebook. Two of the images, seen below, are just images from the trailer, redrawn. But the artist mistakenly posted some color images of X-Wings that may or may not have been the film. They’ve been removed, butStar Wars 7 Newshas them.
Making Star Warswent to an event tied toStar Wars #1recently whereDave Filoni, Henry GilroyandKilian Plunketttalked about the world of Star Wars includingStar Wars RebelsandStar Wars Clone Wars.Check out the video.Legoannounced some new 2015 sets at London Toy Fair recently andThe Brick Fanwrote about them. Among the titles areDeath Star Final Duel, Imperial Shuttle Tydiriumandthe Imperial Assault Carrier. Also,it was revealedthere will be seven sets tied toThe Force Awakens. No specifics about those were revealed though.
Marvel’sStar Warscomics are starting to become hits and in anew blog post, Marvel editor Jordan D. White talks about them. Among the revelations are that while there are no immediate plans to do stories set during the prequel era, there are ideas being talked about. Thanks toJediNewsfor the heads up.
ClassicStar WarsgamesX-Wing vs. Tie Fighter,X-Wing Alliance, andGalactic Battlegrounds Saga, have just become available digitally for the first time. You can download them atGOG.com.
Star Wars Celebrationcontinues to reveal cool, unique events that’ll take place in Anaheim this April. Among the biggest yet is an ultra rare (I think the second time ever?) screening ofStar Wars: A New Hopein Navajo. Read more about itat this link.
Also – there’s going to beStar Wars Celebration Speed Dating. The site says “If the Rebels can blow up the Death Star in eleven minutes, let’s see if you’re able to make a love connection in only three.” Read more at that link.
Last but not least, we love to end on a spoiler andStar Wars 7 Newshas a doozie. They claim to have seen a piece of tech from the film that would play a key role in the final act, if it’s real. No specifics here.Just a linkand the promise that, if true, it’s a huge spoiler.
