New Star Wars Stand-Alone Films to Follow Boba Fett and Young Han Solo

[briann]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=99975

Less than 24 hours after Walt Disney Pictures officially confirmed plans to develop stand-alone feature films in the Star Wars universe, EW is reporting that they have learned which two characters the first two projects will focus on: Boba Fett and a young Han Solo.

Plans for the Solo film call for it to take place in the time between the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy. No plot details have been revealed, but it's a near-certainty that a brand new actor would have to step in to play everyone's favorite scruffy looking Nerf-herder.

The adventures of Han Solo pre-A New Hope was actually the focus of one of the earliest Star Wars novels, 1979's "Han Solo at Star's End," set two years before the events of the 1977 film.

The Boba Fett film, meanwhile, would be set between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back and would follow the bounty hunter on an intergalactic adventure.

Both of the the films (of which Lawrence Kasdan is said to be writing one and Simon Kinberg writing the other) are tentatively planned to see release sometime after 2015 when J.J. Abrams' Episode VII is planned to hit theaters.
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[Super Mentalita]

Wooow, me as a real Star Wars fan think this is great!!!!!

[muman613]

Im sorta disappointed. I remember standing in line to watch the original 1977 film... I dont think these new ones are going to satisfy like the originals. I lose respect for film-makers when they try too hard to keep the series going. I haven't watched a single Batman film since the original... I also didn't like the later Star Trek spin-offs... I have a feeling that I will not like these new Disney star wars films.

[Zelhar]

Im sorta disappointed. I remember standing in line to watch the original 1977 film... I dont think these new ones are going to satisfy like the originals. I lose respect for film-makers when they try too hard to keep the series going. I haven't watched a single Batman film since the original... I also didn't like the later Star Trek spin-offs... I have a feeling that I will not like these new Disney star wars films.

The Batman reboot with Christian Bale is better then the stupid cartoonish movies on the 90s.

[briann]

Im sorta disappointed. I remember standing in line to watch the original 1977 film... I dont think these new ones are going to satisfy like the originals. I lose respect for film-makers when they try too hard to keep the series going. I haven't watched a single Batman film since the original... I also didn't like the later Star Trek spin-offs... I have a feeling that I will not like these new Disney star wars films.

Well... I don't think its possible to be as good as the original... but I was so mortified by the prequels... and I thought they were a bad note to end the series... so I hope these can potentially redeem the Star Wars name....

Plus... Han and Boba are really cool.