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Star Wars: Visions
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Star Wars: Visions Details, Premiere Date Revealed At Anime Expo

Lucasfilm has revealed the first details about Star Wars: Visions, which will be produced by anime studios such as Trigger, Production IG and more.

BY MICHAEL LACERNA
PUBLISHED 4 HOURS AGO


Lucasfilm has announced that seven of the anime industry's top studios, including Trigger (Kill La Kill, SSSS. Dynazenon) and Production IG (Ghost in the Shell, Eden of the East) will be involved in the production of Star Wars: Visions, an anime anthology series set to premiere in the fall.

Lucasfilm says the shorts will feature a variety of art styles and represent a wide gamut of genres, ranging from tragic romances to comedic action pieces, and will even feature a rock opera. The producers of the project also revealed that the highly anticipated anthology will stream exclusively on Disney+ on Sept. 22.

The first short in the anthology is The Duel, by Kamikaze Douga, the studio behind the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure anime. The short will be produced in black and white with occasional splashes of color, and will focus on a story of self-sacrifice for the greater good. The short features new characters designed by Takashi Okazaki, who previously worked on Afro Samurai and Summer Wars.

Golden Kamuy's Geno Studio will produce the second story, Lop & Ocho, which has a more comedic tone and a cute, colorful art style.

The next short revealed, Tattoine Rhapsody, is by Studio Colorido. The short will be done in the style of a rock opera and will feature an appearance from bounty hunter Boba Fett. Colorido previously produced 2020's A Whisker Away and the anime adaptation of Tite Kubo's Bleach spinoff, Burn The Witch.

Two shorts will be created by studio Trigger. The shorts are called The Elder and The Twins, and true to Trigger's trademark over-the-top style, one of the shorts will apparently feature a lightsaber battle fought on top of a flying X-wing. The Twins will be directed by Gurren Lagann's Hiroyuki Imaishi, while The Elder will be directed by Masahiko Otsuka, best known for his work on FLCL and Little Witch Academia.

Kinema Citrus, the studio that produced Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, will create The Village's Bride, which will be a bittersweet story about an exiled Jedi and a young bride in a small village. The short will feature a score performed with traditional Japanese instruments.

The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl's Science Saru is producing a short called Akakiri, which tells the story of a Jedi who meets a princess. The short is directed by animator Eunyoung Choi and is inspired by the works of Akira Kurosawa. Science Saru is also producing a second short, T0-B1, which is about a droid and is said to be inspired by and have a similar tone to Astro Boy.

Finally, Production IG will create The Ninth Jedi, a story that focuses on the daughter of a legendary lightsaber-smith who has to deliver new weapons to a group of Jedi who may not even be alive anymore. The short will be directed by Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex's Kenji Kamiyama.





Here’s Your First Look at the Star Wars: Visions Anime Anthology Series
By Rebecca Alter@ralter



New Star Wars thing alert! For the very wide swath of people who are into both anime and Star Wars, LucasFilm has released a “special look” at its upcoming anthology series, Star Wars: Visions. The extended trailer, which features production stills and behind-the-scenes interviews with animators, premiered yesterday at Anime Expo Lite and showed off the wide variety of stories and styles that will make up the new anthology. Star Wars: Visions consists of nine new stories set in the Star Wars universe, rendered by seven different Japanese animation studios. The trailer gives a sneak peek into a “rock opera–style film” called Tatooine Rhapsody, an Astro Boy–inspired robo-romp called T0-B1, and some sort of space-furry adventure called Lop & Ocho, among others. It’s exciting to see Disney cede so much creative control to these different studios. Star Wars: Visions will stream on Disney+ September 22.



Just watched 1st one and it was dope!!!!
 

Day_Carver

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Here’s Your First Look at the Star Wars: Visions Anime Anthology Series
By Rebecca Alter@ralter



New Star Wars thing alert! For the very wide swath of people who are into both anime and Star Wars, LucasFilm has released a “special look” at its upcoming anthology series, Star Wars: Visions. The extended trailer, which features production stills and behind-the-scenes interviews with animators, premiered yesterday at Anime Expo Lite and showed off the wide variety of stories and styles that will make up the new anthology. Star Wars: Visions consists of nine new stories set in the Star Wars universe, rendered by seven different Japanese animation studios. The trailer gives a sneak peek into a “rock opera–style film” called Tatooine Rhapsody, an Astro Boy–inspired robo-romp called T0-B1, and some sort of space-furry adventure called Lop & Ocho, among others. It’s exciting to see Disney cede so much creative control to these different studios. Star Wars: Visions will stream on Disney+ September 22.



4th episode was good and 5th episode was really good....
 

blackbull1970

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Gina Carano Rehired By Disney/Star Wars

This cat Mark Zeroh is pretty accurate with his information on Star Wars.

We should be getting a full announcement by Disney between now and and the end of 2022.

It’s looking like the issue of Disney rehiring James Gunn played a part with Disney bringing her back.

Good chance also that Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni told Disney CEO Bob Chapek ”If You Don’t Rehire Her, We Quit!”

 

ThaBurgerPimp

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Gina Carano Rehired By Disney/Star Wars

This cat Mark Zeroh is pretty accurate with his information on Star Wars.

We should be getting a full announcement by Disney between now and and the end of 2022.

It’s looking like the issue of Disney rehiring James Gunn played a part with Disney bringing her back.

Good chance also that Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni told Disney CEO Bob Chapek ”If You Don’t Rehire Her, We Quit!”


If he getting info from We Got This Covered then its :bullshit:

https://www.deseret.com/2021/10/5/22711603/star-wars-gina-carano-mandalorian-return-rumor
 

blackbull1970

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Hopefully in the Boba Fett series we find out how he got that dent in his helmet.

From what we saw in the season finale of the Mandalorian, that Beskar steel is pretty tough.

Something out there has the force to damage it like that.
 

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George Lucas Shares His Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Plans and Why It Didn't Happen
Star Wars creator George Lucas has revealed his initial ideas for a sequel trilogy.

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While the Star Wars fanbase has found itself more divided than ever, ask any Star Wars fan and they'll surely agree that the Disney sequel trilogy yielded mixed results. Thanks to this stark mixture of crushing disappointment and breath-taking elation, many have wondered whether a Star Wars sequel trilogy from creator George Lucas would have been more satisfying. Well, you can now (at least partly) judge this for yourself, as several intriguing details have now emerged regarding a scrapped set of sequels from Lucas himself.
"The movies are about how Leia - I mean, who else is going to be the leader? - is trying to rebuild the Republic... Luke is trying to restart the Jedi."
RELATED:Hayden Christensen to Return as Anakin Skywalker in Ahsoka Series
Detailed in the newly released book Taschen's The Star Wars Archives 1999-2005, George Lucas reveals that his sequel trilogy would have centered on Carrie Fisher's Leia Organa, which is something that no doubt all us Star Wars fans can agree makes a lot of sense. But who would have been the face of the Dark Side opposite Leia's Light? Well, this where things get even more interesting as Lucas reveals that he would have resurrected none other than the fan-favorite, spiky-headed, double-edged lightsaber wielding Darth Maul. And Maul would not have been alone.

"Darth Maul trained a girl, Darth Talon, who was in the comic books, as his apprentice. She was the new Darth Vader and most of the action was with her. So, these were the two main villains of the trilogy."
So, instead of Rey, Finn, Poe and Kylo Ren, George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy would have seen the franchise led by both a female hero and villain as Leia must battle against Darth Talon, a Sith under the tutelage of Darth Maul. Even if you did enjoy what Disney did with the franchise, it's impossible to deny that Lucas' ideas have a lot of potential.
Sadly, Lucas' plans ultimately fell apart thanks to the studio's ambitious timeframe and Lucas wanting to spend more time with his family. "At that time I was starting the next trilogy; I talked to the actors and I was starting to gear up," the legendary filmmaker explains. "I was also about to have a daughter... it takes 10 years to make a trilogy... I'd still be working on Episode 9! ... Finally, I'd decided I'd rather raise my daughter and enjoy life for a while."
Though the Disney sequels began on reasonably solid footing with 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, things quickly fell apart following director Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2017. While some fans took to Johnson's vision for a galaxy far, far away, which included subverting expectations and moving away from some of the lore as it's understood in the original trilogy, others were much less kind, with many believing it to be the worst movie in the franchise. This divisiveness continued with the course-correcting follow-up Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019all of which brought out the very worst in the fanbase.

Regardless of how you feel about Disney's efforts, this small tease of Lucas' plans will have many wishing things had worked out differently. This comes to us courtesy of The Star Wars Archives 1999-2005 which is available now.


@ViCiouS
 

playahaitian

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George Lucas Shares His Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Plans and Why It Didn't Happen
Star Wars creator George Lucas has revealed his initial ideas for a sequel trilogy.

  • 2.7kSHARES
While the Star Wars fanbase has found itself more divided than ever, ask any Star Wars fan and they'll surely agree that the Disney sequel trilogy yielded mixed results. Thanks to this stark mixture of crushing disappointment and breath-taking elation, many have wondered whether a Star Wars sequel trilogy from creator George Lucas would have been more satisfying. Well, you can now (at least partly) judge this for yourself, as several intriguing details have now emerged regarding a scrapped set of sequels from Lucas himself.

RELATED:Hayden Christensen to Return as Anakin Skywalker in Ahsoka Series
Detailed in the newly released book Taschen's The Star Wars Archives 1999-2005, George Lucas reveals that his sequel trilogy would have centered on Carrie Fisher's Leia Organa, which is something that no doubt all us Star Wars fans can agree makes a lot of sense. But who would have been the face of the Dark Side opposite Leia's Light? Well, this where things get even more interesting as Lucas reveals that he would have resurrected none other than the fan-favorite, spiky-headed, double-edged lightsaber wielding Darth Maul. And Maul would not have been alone.


So, instead of Rey, Finn, Poe and Kylo Ren, George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy would have seen the franchise led by both a female hero and villain as Leia must battle against Darth Talon, a Sith under the tutelage of Darth Maul. Even if you did enjoy what Disney did with the franchise, it's impossible to deny that Lucas' ideas have a lot of potential.
Sadly, Lucas' plans ultimately fell apart thanks to the studio's ambitious timeframe and Lucas wanting to spend more time with his family. "At that time I was starting the next trilogy; I talked to the actors and I was starting to gear up," the legendary filmmaker explains. "I was also about to have a daughter... it takes 10 years to make a trilogy... I'd still be working on Episode 9! ... Finally, I'd decided I'd rather raise my daughter and enjoy life for a while."
Though the Disney sequels began on reasonably solid footing with 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, things quickly fell apart following director Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2017. While some fans took to Johnson's vision for a galaxy far, far away, which included subverting expectations and moving away from some of the lore as it's understood in the original trilogy, others were much less kind, with many believing it to be the worst movie in the franchise. This divisiveness continued with the course-correcting follow-up Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019all of which brought out the very worst in the fanbase.

Regardless of how you feel about Disney's efforts, this small tease of Lucas' plans will have many wishing things had worked out differently. This comes to us courtesy of The Star Wars Archives 1999-2005 which is available now.


@ViCiouS

so this is NOT new news...

hate when they do that


George Lucas’s ‘Star Wars’ Sequel Plans Once Involved Darth Maul And Darth Talon
BY GRANT DAVIS (POMOJEMA) · NOVEMBER 10, 2020

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Concept art for an incomplete Darth Maul-focused game from LucasArts, which would have featured Darth Talon as an ally for the renegade Sith Lord.
Before he presented a new pitch for Star Wars sequels to Disney around the time he sold Lucasfilm, George Lucas set aside some time to write a few outlines about what stories set after Return of the Jedi might look like. In one of those stories, Darth Maul would have returned, bringing a Star Wars Legends character with him: Darth Talon.


Darth Talon was originally introduced in a Star Wars Legacy story set over a century after the original trilogy, as part of the One Sith – a group that eschewed the idea of the Rule of Two in favor of having strength in numbers, overthrowing the Jedi Order. In the upcoming sourcebook The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III 1999-2005, a new interview with George Lucas about one of the drafts for a sequel trilogy pitch indicate that George Lucas wanted to bring not only Darth Maul – who he had plans to resurrect in The Clone Wars – back into the fold, but also Talon, whose backstory would be reworked entirely so that she could appear in an era set a few decades after Return of the Jedi. In the new backstory, Maul would train Talon as his new apprentice, effectively making her the Darth Vader of this new story while Maul would take after Darth Sidious, establishing power by means of consolidating a crime network from the shadows as he did during the Clone Wars, becoming a new threat in the wake of a fallen Galactic Empire.


The story itself, as pitched here, would begin shortly after Return of the Jedi and would revolve around the Skywalker twins picking up the pieces of Anakin Skywalker’s legacy. Leia would work to restore the Republic and eventually become the Supreme Chancellor, while Luke would seek out the few dozen survivors of Order 66 and seek out children who had Force potential. (Han is not mentioned at all in this interview.) Both Luke and Leia would find themselves at odds with the new Sith, be it directly through battles with the new Jedi, or indirectly through their criminal empire corrupting the resurgent Republic. Eventually, both Skywalkers succeed, presumably over a very long period of time. The story would also have an interesting twist to the Prophecy of the Force in that Leia would be the one who brought balance to the Force, not her father. You can read an excerpt of the interview below:




To reiterate: this pitch is not the one that would be used to form the basis of the sequel trilogy that we received, and we don’t have evidence that George Lucas even pitched this to Disney. Lucas has had lots of different ideas about what would come after Return of the Jedi over the decades, very few of which even involved Darth Maul at all; this was just one of many. Nonetheless, Darth Talon was actually used in the pitch that would be given to Disney. Originally, the backstory of the character that would become Kylo Ren had him seduced to the Dark Side thanks to a character meant to be Darth Talon, who would be working for “Uber”, the character that would become Snoke. The Force Awakens cut out the middlewoman, and Darth Talon was nowhere to be seen. Prior to the Disney purchase, these concepts still were reworked into other Lucasfilm projects; The Clone Wars, for instance, made Darth Maul a crime lord, while an incomplete video game starring the character would have had him team up with Darth Talon (again, ignoring her Star Wars Legacy backstory in favor of something more consistent with what Lucas wanted).

Concept art of Darth Talon with “Uber” (Snoke), created for Lucas’s pitch to Disney for the sequels.


It’s entirely possible that several of these story elements could still be adapted into a story set between the events of the original trilogy and the sequel trilogy, even if Darth Maul is too dead at this point in the timeline to be included in such a tale. We know that around this time, Luke was in the process of rebuilding the Jedi from the brink of extinction, and Leia was able to help the New Republic form, although we have yet to see much of either of these stories play out in the stories that have been released so far. Interestingly, reference books tied to The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi indicated that Snoke had at least one apprentice before Kylo Ren, although Snoke himself is no Sith, so Talon wouldn’t be a “Darth” if she was indeed a disciple of Snoke. There’s also the still-unanswered question of how Snoke, Palpatine’s pawn, consolidated power from Rae Sloane, who founded what would eventually become the First Order – especially Sloane’s vision for the First Order, a reformed version of the Empire, differed from the fanatical military junta that it eventually became. Having a criminal faction become involved in the conflict could help justify Snoke’s rise to power, while also explaining how the Skywalker family knew about him.

The trilogy that Disney did make was much more in line with the pitch that George Lucas gave them around the time of the sale – Darth Vader’s grandson went to the Dark Side, Luke exiled himself and became disillusioned with the Jedi, an orphaned girl on a backwater planet managed to meet with the Skywalkers and become a Jedi herself, and the remnants of the Empire and the Sith return to prominence after being thought long dead. (The draft Lucas described placed a lot of emphasis on Whills and Midi-Chlorians, which J. J. Abrams and Rian Johnson et al. opted to ignore.) Still, it seems like a discarded draft for a trilogy pitch like this one could easily serve as a foundation for future Star Wars stories bridging the two trilogies, particularly since a lot of new Star Wars content is built off of the foundation of ideas that were never used previously. I personally don’t think that it would have been very likely that this story would have ever played out on the big screen, given that it would have presumably involved a lot of digital work on both Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher had they opted to reprise their roles in this story (presuming they weren’t recast) but this kind of pitch for an interquel series seems ripe for animators to go wild with, provided that there are some adjustments made to this story to fit the canon timeline.

The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III 1999-2005 is written by Paul Duncan and will be released at some point later this year.
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