Official: Star Wars: Episode 7 to Hit Theaters on December 18, 2015! Disney Confirms It Will be in 3D.
From StarWars.com:
With pre-production in full-swing, a confirmed release date of December 18, 2015, has been set for Lucasfilm’s highly anticipated Star Wars: Episode VII.
“We’re very excited to share the official 2015 release date for Star Wars: Episode VII, where it will not only anchor the popular holiday filmgoing season but also ensure our extraordinary filmmaking team has the time needed to deliver a sensational picture,” said Alan Horn, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios.
Star Wars: Episode VII will be directed by J.J. Abrams (Super 8, Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek) and is being scripted by Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan (Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi). Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, with Tommy Harper (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Jack Ryan, Star Trek Into Darkness) and Jason McGatlin (Tintin, War of the Worlds) serving as executive producers. John Williams is returning to score Star Wars: Episode VII.
Shooting is scheduled to begin spring 2014 at Pinewood Studios.
I’m really happy with this date. There will be plenty of time to do things right.
Also Disney has just confirmed that Episode 7 will be in 3D.
Disney’s UNTITLED STAR WARS: EPISODE VII has an official release date–12/18/15. And yes, it will be in 3D.
— Exhibitor Relations (@ERCboxoffice) November 7, 2013
Now some reactions from the web.
Kudos to BadAssDigest who first reported the December rumor:
I FUCKING TOLD YOU ABOUT STAR WARS.
— Devin Faraci (@devincf) November 7, 2013
I reported this in August http://t.co/GqR69FE84l
— Devin Faraci (@devincf) November 7, 2013
Matt Martin from Lucasfilm:
Something tells me my Christmas in 2015 is going to be really busy. #StarWarsVII
— Matt Martin (@missingwords) November 7, 2013
@JustinL81 The stress of that announced took at least 3 years off of my life.
— Matt Martin (@missingwords) November 7, 2013
At this stage, Warcraft is also on the Dec 18 date, as is apparently Inferno, the Dan Brown adaptation.
— Borys Kit (@Borys_Kit) November 7, 2013
JJ Abrams’ Star Trek went from Dec 08 to a May 09 release. His Star Wars moves from May 15 to Dec 15. JJ has a May-Dec relationship issue?
— James Floyd (@jamesjawa) November 7, 2013
Iger says since Avatar released on December 18th, there’s good luck associated with that day. #StarWarsVII
— Jeremy Conrad (@ManaByte) November 7, 2013
There are four movies other than #StarWarsVII slated between 12/18 and 12/25 in 2015. All will be pushed now. Unless they’re stupid…
— Jeremy Conrad (@ManaByte) November 7, 2013
The official announcement on the SW site does not mention a #StarWarsVII 3D release. http://t.co/SWgACgLnGq
— Justin LaSalata (@JustinL81) November 7, 2013
Fun fact: the #StarWarsVII release date is also Steven Spielberg’s birthday. The more you know! http://t.co/R5K7r87HFV
— Star Wars Fanpedia (@StarWarsFanWiki) November 7, 2013
Fyi…our story about STAR WARS episode 7 being released in 3D came from a press release via Disney. Pretty sure that’s official enough.
— Steven Weintraub (@colliderfrosty) November 7, 2013
Founder of SWNN, MNN and The Cantina forums.
Born on April 24, 1980.
I am so exited…………….come on guys we wait so much……..it’s insane day, insane news, love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu star wars fans all over the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
same here much love for this announcement. may the force be with all the fans!
Finally?
Arndt wasn’t credited at all in this release. Interesting. Maybe the “rewrites” are more extensive than we thought.
Read the article before this one please.
Credits are in the film you will see it. I think these two unknowns are what Abrams & Kasdan want to add plus normal rewrites battle scenes etc.
Not happy with the release date at all. All 6 films have been released between may 16th-25. Having released does not seem like star wars. I have fond memories of waiting in line for hours on warm may evenings for these movies. My son was born on the day ROTS was released. Star wars in December sucks. Just the first of many things to come that stupid a!# Disney will screw up. Off to a bad start
Wow, be appreciative they’re even making it at all and stop acting like a spoiled brat
Are you going to cry because there won’t be a Fox fanfare at the open? Who gives a shit about a Dec. release? Will the movie be any different?
Ditto above
Yeah no offense big time Star Wars fan here… I don’t care when the hell it comes out so long as it’s a quality movie.
a little over a year ago there was NO HOPE of any more Star Wars movies… be happy we have so much now to look forward to and a 6 month delay is nothing compared to “NEVER”
Take it with a smile 🙂
best news ever
For final time this time without my dream cast(i am sure cast is already made without these 2 unknown actors) what i want as star wars fan:
Star wars will kill all movies in 2015 and will be highest grossing movie of the year and may be even highest grossing movie of all time. Star Wars won’t be just entertaining like marvels and DC films! Expect a lot of mythology in it with master of mythology and best sci fi creator JJ Abrams(more mythology than in original trilogy) and great new characters with SW original writer like Lawrence Kasdan! This will be best sci fi movie of the decade. I want to see kings of the Sith species & sith kingdom( homeworld- Korriban) will be insane! Star Wars never show us that. If darth vedar is there even for one second will be best news ever. More sith lords like darth vader/darth maul(they are fan favorite of all time)! And female sith lord sound outstanding cool!!! I hope they create one as darth malgus(really like his face costume etc) and may be one new hot sith with mask helm etc. Like raven.I want the humour, great story, the mythology, war, evil and good, and the magic that made up star wars. The war between Sith and Jedi is amazing and what makes Star Wars greatest sci fi franchise of all time.NO politics.
A bearded Hamill, training new jedi & to see Leia as a jedi also.
I want too see an original story, something NEW, not anything from the EU (although i don´t care if the borrow names from it)
Hopefully familiar design from original trilogy on vehicles etc. .. Hopefully forceghosts: Obi Wan, Qui Gon, Anakin & YODA (as a puppet) & as many as possible from the orginal cast, to see what has happened to their lives.
& i want lightsaber duels with some new lightsaber colours and lightsaber models.
& finally i would very much like to see Warwick Davis in many roles & maybe wicket decides to leave endor & travel in space with the crew of millennium falcon? & yes, as much screentime as possible for siths, jedi & new wookie!!!
please … stop
didn’t even read this
he copy’s and pastes it every time news comes out it’s torture
I know! It’s annoying.
My head Is spinning! AAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jesus!
Hey darth moron! No one cares about your opinion you god damn idiot. Stop posting these painfully long posts. Not only is it annoying, it’s damn stupid! You want “darth vadar” to return? What the hell man?
Yep, just read the same post on another site. I’m gonna stick with this site and one other site that Darth Malgus might not know about so I only have to put up with him in one place.
What is it? lol
I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you lol.
Expect tons of cast news till end of the year. Pray for jennifer lawrence or all uknonwn!
please god no. Unknowns please.
Jennifer Lawrence??? Why??? She’s amazing but that would be so distracting.
ok i agree UNKNOWNS. I am for that too.
Jennifer Lawrence in Star Wars? That’s just not right!!
Spoiler brat? Kiss my a#$. Star wars is a spring/summer movie series. PERIOD! Like I said, Its the first of many things to come Disney will screw up. Im starting to miss George Lucas now
Yes I said spoiled, re-read your comments. Also please tell me what Disney will screw up since you know ahead of all humanity and time considering they have done everything right so far. You sound like you’d rather them rush production and make a half ass star wars movie.
Spoiled brat fo-sho. But lets be real, I can see Disney throwing in some Jar-Jar flavor to hook the kiddies and sell merch. I’m not saying they will, but I wont be surprised when they do. That being said, retards like this guy give Star Wars fans a bad name. Stop complaining and be excited.
exactly, a bad name and its embarrassing.
yeah you sound like a TRUE Star Wars fan. WE’RE NOT WORTHY!!
Marvel fanboys where also saying that Disney was ruining their beloved comic company…
And then The Avengers happened.
Same thing will happen with Episode VII.
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yep but star wars 7 will gross 3 billion $!1!! best of all time
Well considering all 6 movies together grossed $4.2 billion I highly doubt episode 7 individually will gross $3 billion dollars.
This is coming from ‘darth malgus’, this guy probably believes in unicorns
Holy sh*t!
I heard that the movie is gonna be about how sebulba turns sith and turns the death star into a pod racer.
lmao now THAT is a story haha
Fun. (goes to bed with incubus, might be Jar Jar related too)
Just joking, it’s the exaggerate tension I feel for this beloved franchise that keep increasing, must release it somehow…
3d? Wow, hope they don’t mess with the special effects/action scenes and keep it useful and perfect like it was in Avatar (first and only film that I don’t regret having seen in 3d)
I would love to see a lightsaber duel in 3-D! Just hope the 3-D works well, sometimes it’s just so annoying and I wish I hadn’t spent the extra cash 😀
Who cares when it’s coming out?
Bottom line is we are getting a brand new Star Wars film that is a direct sequel to Return of the Jedi that stars Harrison Ford, Mark HamilL and Carrie Fisher and some of you nerds are bitching because “Star wars is a spring/summer movie series. PERIOD!”….All I can say is GET A LIFE!!!
lol not some, only the spoiled brat haha
Don’t care if its release in 2016 as long as they do a good job!
Truly, A New HOPE…Lets pray that the film that is released on 12-18-15 is a worthy entry into the greatest franchise of all time and can erase from our collective memory those truly horrible prequels that nearly destroyed the franchise.
This film should have been called A New Hope and the original should have just been called Star Wars lol
I know!
I have a good feeling about this movie 😉 .
Great date, not sure about the 3D idea though
Same here, screw 3D
Then don’t see it in 3D. It’s not like that’ll be the only way to see the film in theaters.
I love the fact EP7 is being released in December as December has a relationship with blockbuster movies : LOTR / Hobbit , Avatar , Titanic & box office gold !……
Also I hope there is a regular version I hat 3D
Yeah, I don’t care about 3D so much (and will probably skip the 3D version) but I understand why they’d do it… of course, there will be a regular 2D version as well, there’s no reason not to have one.
I hope so 3D hurts mine eyes
Hate lol I can feel the hat swelling within you
Yep. Hat, fer and aner.
A Wicket-piloted Millennium Falcon might be cool. How long do Ewoks live anyway?
I’m sure I saw somewhere that they live longer than humans, I think about a Wookiee lifespan??
I’m willing to bet a fine steak dinner that at some point this will be pushed back 5 months to May 2016.
I heard the movie is gonna be called “star wars 7 and the life day miracle”. Sounds promising.
i bet you 1,000,000 dollars that is false, that title sucks BALLS and doesn’t even sound star warsy
worst comment ever
Errr……it was a joke.
he’s taking the piss, the life day thing is from the star wars holiday special when Chewbacca is trying to get to his home planet in time for life day with his family. lol
Not sure why everyone is so worried about the release date not being in May. It’s not like that’s important!
Tradition is why everyone is so mad. Every Star Wars film has had a spring/summer release date.
This could be the introduction of Zimmer frame Lightsabers.
A NEW DAWN Would be a cool title.
It’s too similar to A New Hope.
THE New Dawn, maybe.
I’m actually quite happy with how Disney have handled this so far, despite a lot of uneccessary doom and gloom about the whole thing. About 2 years has already being spent on the project, with another 2 years to go. JJ is the current “in-demand” director, Kasdan is a safe pair of hands for all things Star Wars, Kennedy has enormous experience at delivering huge productions. All this points to Ep 7 being a worthy addition to the Saga. Disney is taking its time and building a great team of filmmakers. JJ’s praise for Arndt also kind of squashes the rumours that he was sacked.
1,5 years of post production is a long time, enough to do everything right. Be honest, we don’t want them to tweak anything AFTER the release right 😉
1,5 years of post production? what time frame are you talking about?
This is a more wise and reasonable schedule. And regarding 3d, I am really not interested in the third dimension at all.
You must walk into alot of tables.
YOU HAVE ALL GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.
You’d rather rush production just to keep up with tradition? Give them whatever time they need to make these films incredible! If that means a few extra months without new Star Wars, I’m absolutly fine with that. Everyone should just calm their tits and keep the faith. This movie is going to be phenominal!
I love you
Thanks?
I think I’d rather have them push back to May 2016. It’d give them plenty of time and the fans who really care about keeping it a spring/summer release would be satisfied as well…
“But it’s a whole ‘nother year!”
Hopefully it’s about thrawn.
I highly doubt Thrawn will be included. They’ve said on many occasions that the EU will not be referenced while writing the screenplay for episode VII
@Floydy will get a kick out of this.
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Can’t wait…
I’m ready when they are ready.. Dec 2015 or May 2016, I would wait till my death bed for a great new Star Wars film.. I LOVE IT :0
Can’t wait…
great article ‘Star Wars Episode 7’ Poised To Challenge ‘Avatar’
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2013/11/08/star-wars-episode-7-now-in-prime-position-to-dethrone-avatar/
I Just read that, If Star Wars Ep. 7 does that kind of money? Just imagine the budget for next two..
I Just read that, If Star Wars Ep. 7 does that kind of money? Just imagine the budget for next two..
Can’t wait…
now to save the date ^_^
Confused – where does it confirm its in 3D??
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