STAR WARS : première image de ROGUE ONE et Colin Trevorrow à la réal d’EPISODE IX

15-08-2015 - 23:22 - Par

STAR WARS : première image de ROGUE ONE et Colin Trevorrow à la réal d’EPISODE IX

À la D23, c’était donc festival d’annonces autour de STAR WARS puisque le casting complet de ROGUE ONE a été aussi annoncé. Sans compter un poster de Drew Struzan pour LE RÉVEIL DE LA FORCE.

Après les news concernant les films d’animation Disney et Pixar, la D23 laissait aujourd’hui la place aux projets live action Disney, Marvel et Lucasfilm. Si l’on savait qu’aucun nouveau footage ne serait dévoilé pour LE RÉVEIL DE LA FORCE, on se doutait que les annonces pour les autres films STAR WARS allaient pleuvoir et l’on n’a pas été déçu. Tout d’abord, Lucasfilm a confirmé la rumeur : Colin Trevorrow, qui a signé le plus gros succès de l’année avec JURASSIC WORLD, réalisera bien EPISODE IX.

Il succèdera donc à J.J. Abrams et Rian Johnson (EPISODE VIII). Un choix qui risque de faire grincer quelques dents puisque le travail de Trevorrow sur JURASSIC WORLD n’a pas nécessairement fait l’unanimité dans la communauté des geeks et au sein de la presse. Il n’empêche que le cinéaste venu de l’indé, à peine sorti d’un micro budget sur SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED a prouvé sa capacité à gérer un énorme projet, un casting de star et une lourde post-production, sans encombre. Ce qui, de nos jours, n’est pas une mince affaire – demandez à la Fox et à Josh Trank ce qu’ils en pensent. Quoi qu’il en soit, que ce choix plaise ou non, il confirme la volonté de Kathleen Kennedy d’offrir les clés de STAR WARS à de jeunes cinéastes en devenir, dont certains, comme Trevorrow, sont encore en train de former et peaufiner leur identité.

Si l’on en croit le communiqué de presse officiel (voir en fin de post), Trevorrow ne fera que réaliser EPISODE IX et ne l’écrirait donc pas. Reste donc à savoir qui écrira le script… Rian Johnson, peut-être, qui avait un temps été attaché à ce poste ? Mystère pour le moment.

Autre gros morceau du D23 : le premier STAR WARS ANTHOLOGY (les films indépendants spin-off), à savoir ROGUE ONE, qui suivra une bande de anti-héros chargés par la Rébellion de voler les plans de l’Étoile Noire. Spoiler alert : ils y parviennent puisque ROGUE ONE se déroule bien entendu juste avant STAR WARS EPISODE IV : UN NOUVEL ESPOIR. À la Star Wars Convention, le réalisateur Gareth Edwards avait décrit ROGUE ONE comme un film de guerre et un projet assez différent de ce que l’on connaît de STAR WARS puisqu’aucun des personnages ne serait un Jedi.

On savait déjà que Felicity Jones, qui campera le rôle principal, serait entourée de Riz Ahmed, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn et Forest Whitaker. Aujourd’hui, on a appris le reste du casting de manière officielle et il s’avère tout aussi alléchant puisque s’ajoutent la mégastar hongkongaise Donnie Yen (que la rumeur avait attaché à EPISODE VIII), Jiang Wen, Alan Tudyk (pour un rôle en performance capture) et, last but not least, Mads Mikkelsen. Rien que ça. Au passage, Disney a lâché la première photo du film, où l’on découvre donc Ahmed, Luna, Jones, Yen et Wen en costume, dans un hangar. ROGUE ONE sortira sur les écrans en décembre 2016.

Enfin, petit bonus, un poster pour LE RÉVEIL DE LA FORCE créé par le légendaire Drew Struzan. Mais ses fans, dont nous faisons partie, reconnaîtront que le maître a par le passé fait bien mieux…

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ANAHEIM, CALIF. (August 15, 2015)—Today at D23, Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn announced that writer-director Colin Trevorrow will direct Star Wars: Episode IX, which is set for release in 2019.

While production won’t begin for a few years, Trevorrow is heading to Lucasfilm this year to begin working with artists and his fellow Star Wars directors. “Colin is someone I’ve been interested in working with ever since I saw ‘Safety Not Guaranteed,’” says Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy. “The power of that film paired with the enormous success of ‘Jurassic World’ speaks volumes about his abilities both as a storyteller and skilled filmmaker. We are thrilled to have such an incredible talent as Colin join our family and step into the Star Wars universe.”

Trevorrow states, “This is not a job or an assignment. It is a seat at a campfire, surrounded by an extraordinary group of storytellers, filmmakers, artists and craftspeople. We’ve been charged with telling new stories for a younger generation because they deserve what we all had—a mythology to call their own. We will do this by channeling something George Lucas instilled in all of us: boundless creativity, pure invention and hope.”

Star Wars: Episode IX will conclude the third trilogy of Star Wars movies that begins with Star Wars: The Force Awakens on December 18, 2015.

Resistance Fighters Unite to Steal Plans for Death Star

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. (August 15, 2015)—Lucasfilm announced today that their first film in the new standalone Star Wars stories series, “Rogue One,” has begun principal photography. Gareth Edwards (“Godzilla,” “Monsters”) is directing “Rogue One,” which tells the story of resistance fighters who have united to steal plans to the dreaded Death Star. The film is produced by Kathleen Kennedy and is slated for a December 16, 2016 release.

The filmmakers have assembled a stellar cast, including Felicity Jones, nominated for an Academy Award® for her leading role in “The Theory of Everything”; Diego Luna, who was featured in 2008’s Oscar®-winning “Milk” and the critically acclaimed “Killing Them Softly”; Ben Mendelsohn, recently nominated for an Emmy® for his leading role in “Bloodline” and co-starring  in the upcoming “Mississippi Grind”; Donnie Yen, Hong Kong action star and martial artist who starred in “Ip Man” and “Blade II”; Jiang Wen, who co-wrote, produced , directed and starred in the award-winning “Let the Bullets Fly” and “Devils on the Doorstep”; Forest Whitaker, recently featured in the critically-acclaimed Lee Daniels’ “The Butler” and winner of an Academy Award® for his leading role in 2006’s “The Last King of Scotland; Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in “The Hunt” and was the memorable villain from 2006’s “Casino Royale”;  Alan Tudyk,  who plays a performance-capture character in “Rogue One,” stars in the soon-to-be-released “Con Man” series and “Trumbo,” which releases this November; and Riz Ahmed, who was recently featured in “Nightcrawler” and starred in the BAFTA-winning film “Four Lions.”

“‘Rogue One’ takes place before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope and will be a departure from the saga films but have elements that are familiar to the Star Wars universe,” says Kathleen Kennedy. “It goes into new territory, exploring the galactic struggle from a ground-war perspective while maintaining that essential Star Wars feel that fans have come to know. Gareth is such an innovative director and I’m so excited to be working with him and the extraordinary ensemble cast he’s selected for ‘Rogue One.’”

Veteran ILM visual effects supervisor John Knoll, who shares a long history with the Star Wars movies, dating back to the mid-1990s, originated the idea for the movie. Allison Shearmur (“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “Cinderella”), John Knoll, Simon Emanuel (“The Dark Knight Rises,” “Fast & Furious 6”) and Jason McGatlin (“Tintin,” “War of the Worlds”) are executive producers. Kiri Hart and John Swartz (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) are co-producers.

To create the lived-in, realistic feel of “Rogue One,” Edwards chose Greig Fraser (“Zero Dark Thirty,” “Foxcatcher”) to be his director of photography and Neil Corbould (“Black Hawk Down,” “Gladiator,” “Saving Private Ryan”) to be his special effects supervisor.  Star Wars and Lucasfilm veteran Doug Chiang (“Star Wars: Episodes I-II,” “Forrest Gump”) and Neil Lamont (supervising art director for the “Harry Potter” series, “Edge of Tomorrow”) will be the production designers. Additional crew members will include stunt coordinator Rob Inch (“World War Z,” Marvel’s “Captain America: The First Avenger”), creature effects supervisor Neal Scanlan (“Prometheus”) and co-costume designers Dave Crossman (costume supervisor for the “Harry Potter” series, “Saving Private Ryan”) and Glyn Dillon (costume concept artist for “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” “Jupiter Ascending”).

 

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