Movies Week In Nerdom 8-1 - Joker news, Star Wars IX press release, and more!
Channel: Generally Nerdy
Date: 2018-08-03

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This week in Movie news for the nerds!

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
Stan Lee cameo? Meta is cool.

Joker
ANOTHER casting rumor. Frances Conroy this time is reportedly in talks to play the mother of the clown prince. How is this based on the Killing Joke again? ALSO DeNiro is in talks to be a secondary character in the movie.

Star Wars Ep9
Cast announced.
Full Press Release!
Star Wars: Episode IX will begin filming at London’s Pinewood Studios on August 1, 2018. J.J. Abrams returns to direct the final installment of the Skywalker saga. Abrams co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Terrio.
Returning cast members include Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Marie Tran, Joonas Suotamo, and Billie Lourd. Joining the cast of Episode IX are Naomi Ackie and Richard E. Grant, who will be joined by veteran Star Wars actors Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, and Billy Dee Williams, who will reprise his role as Lando Calrissian.
The role of Leia Organa will once again be played by Carrie Fisher, using previously unreleased footage shot for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. “We desperately loved Carrie Fisher,” says Abrams. “Finding a truly satisfying conclusion to the Skywalker saga without her eluded us. We were never going to recast, or use a CG character. With the support and blessing from her daughter, Billie, we have found a way to honor Carrie’s legacy and role as Leia in Episode IX by using unseen footage we shot together in Episode VII.”
Composer John Williams, who has scored every chapter in the Star Wars saga since 1977’s A New Hope, will return to a galaxy far, far away with Episode IX.
Star Wars: Episode IX will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Michelle Rejwan, and executive produced by Callum Greene and Jason McGatlin.
The crew includes Dan Mindel (Director of Photography), Rick Carter and Kevin Jenkins (Co-Production Designers), Michael Kaplan (Costume Designer), Neal Scanlan (Creature and Droid FX), Maryann Brandon and Stefan Grube (Editors), Roger Guyett (VFX Supervisor), Tommy Gormley (1st AD), and Victoria Mahoney (2nd Unit Director).

Release is scheduled for December 2019.

Fox/Disney Merger
SQUASHING RUMORS TIME!
Dark Phoenix and New Mutants are NOT getting cancelled. The Merger isn’t even 100% approved. The largest hurdle is passed, but not all the hurdles. Once it finalizes, IF it finalizes, it likely won’t be done until the end of 2019. So the only way Disney could cancel these movies is if they owned them. And they won’t own them until after they have been released.

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