Warner Brothers Schedule Updated: Ready Player One readies away from Star War VIII and Flash Adjusts
Warner has pushed their Steven Spielberg tent pole Ready Player One away from it's original December 15, 2017 release date to March 30, 2018. This comes after it was announced a couple weeks ago that Rian Johnson's Star Wars: Episode VIII moved from its original May release to December. What's interesting is that Disney was originally going to move Star Wars back to May, the same month the first six were released. But after Disney printed money with The Force Awakens' December release, they decided to keep December a sort of Star Wars holiday and push Episode VIII and the future rest to December, leaving Spielberg's huge film, that may actually never get made into the following year.
Also Warner seemed to bump up The Flash film by about a week, moving it from March 23 to March 16, 2018. The reason for the move may be to give The Flash a little extra breathing room before Ready Player One is released. This will give The Flash two weeks in IMAX before Ready Player One takes over.
The interesting thing is Spielberg always wanted to direct a Star Wars movie and was even supposedly offered to direct a prequel film. At that time Spielberg didn't want to mess with Lucas' vision and let George helm the three prequels. In fact, supposedly Spielberg was not the only one offered to direct a prequel film, Ron Howard and Robert Zemeckis were also offered... Imagine the world we would live in if every Star Wars was directed by a different director. Instead Lucas directed the first four sequentially, with the next three being directed by Irvin Kershner, Richard Marquand, and JJ Abrams, with Rian Johnson set to direct VIII and Colin Trevorrow to direct IX.
And Spielberg did in fact direct some Star Wars. He's credited as directing some of the animatics in Revege of the Sith. He's credited on the film as an assistant director and supposedly had a hand in the animatics for the Mustafar lightsaber duel between Anakin and Obi Wan and the end of the film and the senate fight between Yoda and the Emperor.
Warner Brothers UPDATED schedule:
Warner Brothers:
Me Before You - March 4, 2016
Midnight Special - March 18, 2016
Barbershop: Episode IV - The Next Cut - April 15, 2016
Keanu - April 22, 2016
Going in Style - May 6, 2016
The Nice Guys - May 20, 2016
The Conjuring 2 - June 10, 2016
Central Intelligence - June 17, 2016
Lights Out - July 22, 2016
Arms and the Dudes - August 19, 2016
Sully - September 9, 2016
The Accountant - October 7, 2016
Bastards - November 4, 2016
Chicken Soup for the Soul - December 16, 2016
Fist Fight - July 8, 1905
Geostorm - January 13, 2017
The House - June 2, 2017
Dunkirk - July 21, 2017
Live By Night - 2017
Warner Tentpoles:
The Legend of Tarzan - July 1, 2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them - November 18, 2016
Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur - February 17, 2017
The Jungle Book: Origins - October 6, 2017
Ready Player One - March 30, 2018
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2 - November 16, 2018
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3 - November 20, 2020
DC Entertainment:
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - March 25, 2016
Suicide Squad - August 5, 2016
Wonder Woman - June 23, 2017
Justice League: Part I - November 17, 2017
The Flash - March 16, 2018
Aquaman - July 27, 2018
Shazam - April 5, 2019
Justice League: Part II - June 14, 2019
Cyborg - April 3, 2020
Green Lantern - June 19, 2020
Sandman - Announced
