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Disney has announced that Josh Trank has departed the Star Wars spinoff.

Trank was to direct the second of the Star Wars spinoffs, following Gareth Edwards’ own, which has a May 2018 release.

According to the official info, Trank decided to leave. 

“After a year of having the incredible honor of developing with the wonderful and talented people at Lucasfilm, I’m making a personal decision to move forward on a different path.” Trank said in a statement released by StarWars.com. “I’ve put a tremendous amount of thought into this, and I know deep down in my heart that I want to pursue some original creative opportunities. That said, the Star Wars universe has always been one of my biggest influences, and I couldn’t be more excited to witness its future alongside my millions of fellow Star Wars fans. I want to thank my friends Kathleen Kennedy, Kiri Hart, Simon Kinberg, and everyone at Lucasfilm and Disney for the amazing opportunity to have been a part of this. May the Force be with you all.”

Lucasfilm VP of Development Kiri Hart added: “It was a privilege to collaborate with Josh.  We are grateful for the energy and love of Star Wars that he brought to the process, and we wish him all the best.”

No replacement director has been announced as-of-yet.

Josh Trank has Fantastic Four for Fox coming out this August.

Today at Star Wars Celebration: Disney, Lucasfilm and director Gareth Edwards unveiled a teaser for the first spinoff movie, Star Wars: Rogue One.

It should be noted they are now referring to the spinoffs as “Anthology” movies.

Edwards confirmed previous rumors that Rogue One will be a “heist film” and offered: “A band of resistance fighters unite for a daring mission to steal the Death Star plans in Star Wars anthology film, Rogue One.” 

Check out the teaser above featuring the voice of Alec Guinness as Obi Wan Kenobi.

Star Wars: Rogue One has a December 16, 2016 release starring Felicity Jones.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has a December 18, 2015 release directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, and John Williams returns as the composer.

Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Max von Sydow, Lupita Nyong’o and Gwendoline Christie will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer:

Check out a batch of images from the Star Wars: The Force Awakens exhibit at Star Wars Celebration.

Included is a look at concept art and costumes from the movie where the look of the SnowTroopers can be seen as well as FlameTroopers, Resistance X-Wing, Finn concept art, Rey concept art, Junkyard Thug costumes and Kylo Ren’s hilt.

 

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“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has a December 18, 2015 release directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, and John Williams returns as the composer.

Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Max von Sydow, Lupita Nyong’o and Gwendoline Christie will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer:

Disney has debuted the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer at Star Wars Celebration which features new footage and a first look at Chewbacca and Han Solo.

Check it out above, and below you can view 30 images from the trailer.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has a December 18, 2015 release directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, and John Williams returns as the composer.

Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Max von Sydow, Lupita Nyong’o and Gwendoline Christie will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film.

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Today at 10am PST sees the start of Star Wars Celebration.

Check out three promo posters featuring the villain from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren, and another look at the stormtroopers.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has a December 18, 2015 release directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, and John Williams returns as the composer.

Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Max von Sydow, Lupita Nyong’o and Gwendoline Christie will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer:

Tomorrow officially kicks of Disney’s Star Wars Celebration event, and now an image from the program has hit the net giving us a first full look at a Stormtrooper from J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie.

StarWarsUnderworld posted the following image.

Expected a lot more this weekend as Disney is live-streaming Star Wars Celebraion from Anaheim, and it’s thought the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer will be released.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has a December 18, 2015 release directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, and John Williams returns as the composer.

Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Max von Sydow, Lupita Nyong’o and Gwendoline Christie will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer:

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Disney has announced that for the first time ever more than 30 hours of video will be live-streamed from this weekend’s Star Wars Celebration taking place in Anaheim, California.

It’s been reported the new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be shown during the event; J.J. Abrams and head of LucasFilm, Kathleen Kennedy, are confirmed to be a part of the panel that will kick things off. 

Coverage of Star Wars Celebration will be streamed live throughout the four-day event from a specially-designed Star Wars Cantina set located in the middle of the action on the convention floor.

The 30-plus hours of live-streamed footage will feature over a dozen panels and events, including discussions with actors Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams, Ian McDiarmid, and several other performers associated with the Star Wars saga.

The Star Wars Fan Film Awards will also be live-streamed as well as the Smuggler’s Bounty radio drama; EA’s new Battlefront videogame; and several other events.

Exclusive clips from throughout Star Wars Celebration event will also be available on-demand from Verizon, allowing fans to celebrate Star Wars long after the live streams are over.

The live streaming begins at 10:00 a.m. PST, Thursday, April 16, on StarWars.com with the Celebration kickoff panel and continues with 30-plus hours of coverage through the closing ceremony on Sunday, April 19, beginning at 3:30 p.m. PST.

Cosmic Book News will have any Star Wars Celebration feeds, that are available to be posted, up on our site as well.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has a December 18, 2015 release directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, and John Williams returns as the composer.

Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Max von Sydow, Lupita Nyong’o and Gwendoline Christie will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer:

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In addition to the Star Wars Battlefront video game, it looks likely Disney and LucasFilm will be promoting the first Star Wars spinoff from director Gareth Edwards, Star Wars: Rogue One, at next month’s Star Wars Celebration.

As Star Wars: Rogue One shares “Rogue” with Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, it’s learned that instead of Paramount having to file lawsuits and such, Disney will simply not promote Rogue One, which hits December 2016, until after MI 5 gets released this Summer; so it’s really not that much of a big deal.

In THR‘s report on the matter, it is stated that Disney LucasFilm will still be able to promote Star Wars: Rogue One at the Star Wars Celebration event that takes place in Anaheim, California April 16-19.

Maybe we’ll learn more casting news at the event and more.

Star Wars: Rogue One has a December 16, 2016 release starring Felicity Jones.