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It has way more in common with George Lucas» original 1977 space opera Star Wars.

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The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

Ron Howard's Solo: A Star Wars Story is the second spin - off in cinema's most celebrated space opera.

For some, it's the quasi - fantasy / space opera of Star Wars.

With the new film of the space opera saga finally on the big screen and the release of Battlefront's new sequel, both after a decade overdue, it is definitely the best time to be a Star Wars fan.

As writer and director, Lucas unabashedly uses «Star Wars» to pay tribute to all the grand adventure films ever made, be they westerns, swashbucklers, fantasies or space operas.

• NYT «The Shed,» a newperformance space in Manhattan is looking to mash art - forms up from film directors staging concerts to collaborations between actors, poets, and opera stars?

Directed by Gareth Edwards and written by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy based on an idea by John Knoll, this epic space opera marks the first «Star Wars» stand - alone story, depicting the events shortly before the series» original movie.

But what makes the film more than a mere vengeance flick is that it is actually a fairy tale disguised as a humble western in the same way that the Star Wars franchise is actually a space opera about a son redeeming his father who fell from grace.

it's an action - adventure / sci fi space opera to the likes of the original Star Wars.

Now this furry, funny avenger — voiced by bona fide movie star Bradley Cooper — is front and center in a space opera that takes the multibillion - dollar Marvel movie megafranchise far away from the Earthbound world of Iron Man and The Avengers.

Based on the screenplay of the eagerly anticipated final film in George Lucas's epic saga, bestselling Star Wars author Matthew Stover's novel crackles with action, captures the iconic characters in all their complexity, and brings a space opera masterpiece full circle in stunning style.

Three «Star Wars» movies have come out since 2015, and Disney is placing even bigger bets on the brand — developing two new film series and several TV shows based on the space opera.

by Walter Chaw A deep cut for Star Wars fanatics, Gareth Edwards's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story also happens to be the single most topical fiction of 2016, talking as it does — in bold, melodramatic strokes befitting a space opera — about the importance of rebellion in the face of fascism.

You've got Star Wars, you've got Guardians, so you've got to have your own space opera, but you have to find something that can survive among these two very, very great franchises.»

«Star Wars: The Last Jedi,» the 10th «Star Wars» theatrical film overall and second in the revived space - opera trilogy, opened to $ 220 million domestically this weekend, the second - biggest...

Early reviews are in for «Solo: A Star Wars Story,» the newest standalone space opera set in the galaxy far, far away.

For high - stakes space opera on an epic scale, Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a risky, expansive, entertaining and visionary spectacle, made with technical expertism and frequently, bona fide beauty.

Interestingly, Freeman — who was sitting next to his old pal Andy Serkis, a Star Wars alum himself — noted that his absence from the space opera series is not for lacking on his own part.

Disney and Lucasfilm annouced on Monday that the next chapter in the space opera saga will be named Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Star Wars Grindhouse trailer: The internet does it again by re-cutting everyone's favourite space opera into a Grindhouse trailer.

Rogue One, a new standalone Star Wars film that ends around the point where the original movie began, doesn't exactly subvert the light - and - dark mythos of that nearly 40 - year - old multimedia franchise, but it does find the fatalism buried in its space - opera heroics.

In theaters everywhere is Jupiter Ascending, the spectacular new sci - fi space opera creation from Lana & Andy Wachowski (of The Matrix trilogy, Bound, Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas) starring Channing Tatum as wolf - hybrid Caine and Mila Kunis as Jupiter.

The director of Godzilla (2014) constructs a fast paced, sure footed space opera, with a complete vision of the Star Wars universe that's full of characters living in a world of destruction and dirt covered faces.

The force was strong with Star Wars fans on Friday as they celebrated May 4th in style on social media with memes, quotes and pictures in honour of the beloved sci - fi space opera.

The space - opera movie revolves around the character Han Solo, a regular of the Star Wars universe.

The 21 year old British actor stars opposite Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, and fellow Brit Eddie Redmayne in the sprawling space opera.

A super-concentrated packet whose features have the precision of an X-Acto knife, Natalie Portman literally and figuratively blasted out of the box as a pubescent punkette assassin in The Professional (1994) and hasn't taken a breather since, working with the top stratum of directors in a carousel of genres ranging from costume drama (The Other Boleyn Girl) to space opera (the Star Wars prequel trilogy), to mirror - splintering psychodrama (Black Swan, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role).

Ever since «Star Wars» rewrote the proverbial rule book, there has been so little room in cinemas for calm, brainy science fiction that anything that isn't space opera seems like a feast — «Arrival» is pretty easy to overrate.

Bryan Thomas Schmidt is the author of the space opera novel The Worker Prince, the collection The North Star Serial, and has several short stories forthcoming in anthologies and magazines.

In the eighties, one of the first new genres that came to attention was the space opera, no doubt in part inspired by the success of Star Wars.

In light of the seventh instalment of Star Wars opening in Singapore tomorrow, awaken the force in your furkid with these toys (that may or may not be designed especially for pets) inspired by the epic space opera.

Bungie has reached for the stars with its gigantic space opera, but much of the experience is rooted in long established conventions

Playing as the Pathfinder, a soldier / explorer hybrid in a quest to find humanity a new home amongst the stars, Mass Effect: Andromeda is the next chapter in Bioware's sprawling space opera epic.

It's part Star Wars space opera, part brilliant Star Trek episode, and one of the best sci - fi games on PC.

Disney has confirmed Star Wars will come to Disney Infinity, meaning characters from the space opera will be featured alongside other characters from Disney, Pixar, and Marvel in the latest installment of Disney's video game franchise.

After the launch of the OnePlus 5T Star Wars Limited Edition last month to commemorate the release of the next chapter in the epic Star Wars space opera — Star Wars: The Last Jedi — OnePlus kicked off 2018 with the launch of OnePlus 5T Lava Red Edition in India.