{"id":430,"date":"2013-05-11T10:25:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T10:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2013-05-11T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T10:26:43","slug":"starwars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/starwars\/","title":{"rendered":"STAR WARS FEATURE FILM PRODUCTION RETURNS TO THE U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h2>May 10, 2013<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<div id=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Lucasfilm announced today that production of\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em>: Episode VII<em>\u00a0<\/em>will take place in the United Kingdom. All of the six previous live-action\u00a0<em>Star Wars\u00a0<\/em>movies have included UK production in such famed studios as Elstree, Shepperton, Leavesden, Ealing and Pinewood Studios.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve devoted serious time and attention to revisiting the origins of\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0as inspiration for our process on the new movie, and I&#8217;m thrilled that returning to the UK for production and utilizing the incredible talent there can be a part of that,&#8221; said Kathleen Kennedy, President of Lucasfilm. &#8220;Speaking from my own longstanding connection to the UK with films like\u00a0<em>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Empire of the Sun<\/em>\u00a0and recently\u00a0<em>War Horse<\/em>, it&#8217;s very exciting to be heading back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, representatives from Lucasfilm met with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, in London to establish an agreement to produce\u00a0<em>Star Wars\u00a0<\/em>in the U.K. &#8220;I am delighted that\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0is coming back to Britain. Today&#8217;s announcement that the next\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0film will be shot and produced in the UK is great news for fans and our creative industries,&#8221; Osborne said today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Wars<\/em>: Episode VII will be directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Michael Arndt and is scheduled for a 2015 release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 10, 2013 Lucasfilm announced today that production of\u00a0Star Wars: Episode VII\u00a0will take place in the United Kingdom. All of the six previous live-action\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0movies have included UK production in such famed studios as Elstree, Shepperton, Leavesden, Ealing and Pinewood Studios. &#8220;We&#8217;ve devoted serious time and attention to revisiting the origins of\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0as inspiration for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,35,8,32],"tags":[74,68,80,78,79,75,76,77],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-leisure","category-technology","category-television","tag-cinema-2","tag-disney","tag-elsetree","tag-film","tag-lucasfilm","tag-movies","tag-star-wars","tag-uk-film-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}