While Sony may have made comic book fans happy by announcing that Marvel’s Spider-Man reboot is now coming on July 7th next year instead of July 28th, it’s also been confirmed that Star Wars Episode VIII has been delayed from May 26th, 2017 to December 15th, 2017.
That means it will open just ten days after Avatar 2, and unless the James Cameron helmed release backs down, we could be in store for a real battle at the box office next Christmas.
As upsetting as it is to think that we now have to wait an extra seven months to see the next instalment of the new Star Wars trilogy, The Force Awakens has been such a massive hit (it’s so far earned $1,886.7 billion worldwide), it makes sense that Disney would lay claim to every Christmas moving forward. Plus, we still have Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 to look forward to next May, so it’s not all bad!
It’s been said on social media that one of the reasons for the delay is that the script is currently being rewritten, but regardless of whether or not that’s the case, at least Gareth Edwards’ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is still less than a year away from being released.
Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII is now in preproduction and will begin principal photography in London next month. Kathleen Kennedy and Ram Bergman will produce and J.J. Abrams, Jason McGatlin, and Tom Karnowski will executive produce.
