«Solo: A Star Wars Story» is
a standalone film in the franchise featuring characters including Han Solo, Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca before the events in «Star Wars.»
At the Star Wars Celebration currently underway in London, director Gareth Edwards debuted a behind - the - scenes look at the first
standalone film in the franchise, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Not exact matches
In interviews, Wright has said his idea for the
film was to be a
standalone film, something that may not have gone over well since Disney and Marvel have been very particular about connecting its
films — and TV show — into a larger
franchise engine.
Disney purchased the Star Wars
franchise from George Lucas» Lucasfilm
in 2012 for $ 4.05 billion, and has planned for a new trilogy of
films as well as
standalone installments through 2019.
Disney and Lucasfilm released the official teaser trailer to the next
standalone film in the Star Wars
franchise in February, and Howard confirmed via Twitter at the end of March that another full - length trailer would follow soon, although an exact date has not been announced yet.
Indeed, the non-Marvel
films in these
franchises that have done best more recently are the ones that stood out from the crowd, like Wonder Woman (which rejected the dark tone of other DC movies), Logan (which felt like a grown - up
standalone film), and Deadpool (which loudly razzed the idea of being linked to X-Men movies).
Solo will stay
in the Star Wars family with veteran
franchise composer John Williams set to write the theme for the
standalone film about Han Solo, slated for release on May 25.
Hahn stakes her claim as the
film's MVP early, but her work
in the supermarket sequence alone should justify a
standalone comedic
franchise of her very own.
He kicked off the entire
franchise all the way back
in 2008 and has continued to be one of the most important figures
in the series, with three
standalone films, practically leading the Avengers
in two battles to save the Earth, going up against Captain America for the Avengers very own civil war, and helping Peter Parker become Spider - Man.
And
in March, Marvel will release its 21st entry
in the
franchise and the first - ever
standalone film headlined by a woman: «Captain Marvel,» starring Brie Larson.
Eighteen
films into Marvel's blockbuster
franchise they're long overdue, arriving
in a «Black Panther» origin tale that also breaks ground as the first
standalone film of the modern Marvel era to be led by a black superhero.
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.
It's the third
film in the
standalone Thor
film franchise and since Thor is also one of the major superheroes
in the Avengers movie, the various happenings
in his
standalone film, will play a huge role
in the upcoming crossover Marvel
film, Avengers: Infinity.
Recently Microsoft had announced that
in a partnership between Forza and Fast & Furious, fans of the
franchises will be getting a new
standalone expansion pack, which will allow gamers to experience the cars of the upcoming
film Fast and Furious 7 with the acclaimed gameplay mechanics of Forza Horizon 2.