BB-8 is one of the cutest additions to the Star Wars galaxy under Disney’s purview.
So perhaps this is the inevitable conclusion of a design that has won the hearts and plundered the wallets of countless Star Wars fans: What if... what if everyone in Star Wars was shaped like a BB-unit?
That’s basically the premise of Hideo Itoyanagi’s Star Wars: Roll Out, a new series beginning this week on the Star Wars Kids YouTube channel.
Inspired by a similar short idea that Itoyanagi created for The Force Awakens’ release in Japan, Roll Out re-imagines the heroes and villains of the Star Wars saga as ball-shaped, squat-headed versions of themselves, as if they too were literally BB-Units.
It seems that only Porgs – the other loveable addition to the Star Wars galaxy in the sequel era that could rival BB-8 for the cutey-crown – have escaped BB-ification.
Roll Out will follow these roly-poly takes on everyone from Han and Chewie to Rey, Finn, and Poe as they get into problems that they have to, well...spin their way out of, I guess.
For a few months, even years, we have begun to talk about what we now know as Apple TV +, the new streaming platform of the Californian company.
Of course, the great capacity for content creation of the company has resonated with Walt Disney Studios and Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and, since the beginning of this year, the studios of 21st Century Fox.
What some questioned is that they could do it with technology, something that they have also shown in the event.
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BAMTech, now called Disney Streaming Services, has created a platform designed to support up to 10 million concurrent users, with a fantastic video quality that will reach 4K HDR in the content that supports it.
Like any other producer, Disney maintains certain agreements with distributors around the world to bring their creations to consumers.
Disney’s biannual event is just around the corner, and we cannot help but feel intrigued about the upcoming convention.
It may be about Disneyland’s all over the globe, TV show news, and movie stuff surrounding Star Wars or MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe).
Previous time attendees have been treated with unique inside footage, goodies, merchandise, and exclusive news too.
The Star Wars franchise is set to return with the ninth movie, but the franchise is nowhere near to finish.
It could also provide the stage for the confirmation of the rumored return of Evan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a series exclusive to Disney Plus.
Disney announced that its streaming platform will soon be available internationally.
Since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, the studio has been laser-focused on two of its biggest franchises: cycling up a whole deluge of Star Wars films, and getting going on a continuation of Indiana Jones.
But now it’s working on a new project, wholly disconnected from supernatural treasure hunting or Jedi adventures.
Deadline reports Disney is moving ahead with an adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s 2018 young adult fantasy novel Children of Blood and Bone, picking up on a Fox 2000 rights acquisition that has survived the House of Mouse’s consumption of Fox and the ongoing radical cutdown of its previously planned movie slate.
Set in a world where an evil king orders the culling of Maji – practitioners of various elemental magics – Children of Blood and Bone follows a young orphaned Maji named Zélie, who sets out to bring magic back to her people and strike back against the king who subjugated them.
Kay Oyegun, best known for her work on This is Us, is currently in talks with Disney to write the adaptation, while Dope and one-time potential Flash director Rick Famuyiwa is still attached to direct.
While prior producers back under Fox’s auspices Marty Bowen, Isaac Klausner, John Fischer, and Karen Rosenfelt, as well as Famuyiwa himself, will still be onboard the Disney version of the project, the deal has apparently caught the eye of Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy according to Deadline.
