While we wait for Lucasfilm to finally drop some official info on Star Wars: Episode IX, a recent rumor shared by Making Star Wars has started to get a little traction, and fans are already coming forward with their theories on what exactly the report could be telling us about the story to come.
The Knights of Ren have factored into enough Star Wars: Episode IX rumors and reports for their return to actually sound fairly plausible, and according to one recent piece of alleged intel, there’s a reason why this formidable group has been absent for most of the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy.
Though January came and went without the widely predicted Star Wars: Episode IX title reveal, there’s reason to believe that this grand unveiling may be just around the corner, and going by one unverified leak shared on Reddit, there’s even a chance that the name is already with us.
You may have read of the controversy lately surrounding Joe Berlinger’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile and its provocative depiction of serial killer Ted Bundy, but as we move further into 2019, you can expect the discourse to shift its focus to Sharon Tate. With the fiftieth anniversary of Tate’s murder at the hands of the Manson Family landing this August, several new projects portraying the actress are on the way, perhaps the most contentious of them all being The Haunting of Sharon Tate, which has just seen its second trailer drop online.
The Gambit solo movie has been sitting in development hell for so many years that it's felt like more of a running joke than an actual film in the works, and with the Disney/Fox deal soon to come into effect, the shift in ownership may well serve as the final killing blow for the Channing Tatum-led flick.
Though Idris Elba offered a blunt “no” last August to the question of whether he might be the next James Bond, that evidently hasn’t stopped the public from rooting for him, with the Luther star topping a recent poll that asked 3,000 Brits who they’d like to see as the next 007.
With The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part set for release later this week, Chris Pratt has been doing a whole lot of press lately, leaving him vulnerable to questions that he’s in no position to answer about the upcoming Avengers: Endgame. Nonetheless, the actor seems to be keeping his cool under interrogation, though he does claim to have knowledge on the Avengers: Infinity War sequel that would break the internet.
2019 is set to be a ridiculously huge year for Disney for a multitude of reasons, from the upcoming Disney Plus platform to the impending Fox merger, but in terms of cinematic releases, the two biggest events are almost certainly Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars: Episode IX. But while Forbes writer Scott Mendelson is predicting these two major blockbusters to be the year’s highest-grossing releases, he also argues that J.J. Abrams’ upcoming trilogy-closer is unlikely to do as well as Marvel’s ensemble actioner.
Avengers: Endgame is dealing with high enough expectations already without its cast members hyping the film up further, but in a recent interview with Digital Spy, the Star-Lord actor couldn’t help but heap more praise on Marvel’s Phase 3 finale.
The box office figures for 2018 made all too clear that superhero fatigue has yet to set in for the filmgoing public, but according to X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige may still want to be mindful of the risks of taking their comic book saga too far.
