Fantha Tracks will be covering all the Star Wars related news from the Disney Investor Day 2020, which kicks off at 9.30pm UK time tonight, and this is where you’ll find it. This page will regularly updated with the latest news, along with our social network feeds and we’ll be sure to discuss the fallout on Good Morning Tatooine this coming Sunday night at 9.00pm UK time and on the 67th studio episode of Making Tracks (the 99th Making Tracks episode) next Tuesday.
The Walt Disney Company will webcast its Investor Day 2020 on December 10, 2020. The event, focused on the Company’s direct-to-consumer streaming services, is scheduled to begin at approximately 4:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT. The Investor Day is expected to last approximately four hours.
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The webcast presentation will be archived.
- Bob Chapek talks Disney Plus, with 86.8 million subscribers as of 2nd December.
- 1 billion people identify as fans of Disney.
- STAR will give Disney a wider global DTC reach.
- Prioritising their direct-to-consumer platforms.
- Over next few years 10 (TEN) Star Wars series.
- 10 Marvel series, 10 Star Wars series, 15 Disney & Pixar series, 15 Disney & Pixar features.
- Raya and the Last Dragon starring Kelly Marie Tran coming to Disney Plus Premium Access March 2021.
- Disney Plus expected 60 – 90m subscribers by 2024. Now have 86.8m as of 2nd December.
- Disney Plus Hotstar launching in India in seven languages.
- Star will become a part of Disney Plus Feb 23rd 2021. Cost of Disney Plus will rise to £8.99 in UK. Star will include library of Disney series and 20th Century Fox film library.
- Star will include mature material like Planet of the Apes, Die Hard, Modern Family and Family Guy. This will be the 6th tile, and will have parental options, for 18+ content. This means films like Logan and series like Legion will appear as part of the Marvel tile, behind secure parental controls so you see what you want your family to see.
- Ten minute break, then Bob Iger…
- Bob Iger talks quality over volume, and diverse storytelling as new shows from Disney creators are previewed, including Dopesick starring Rosario Dawson.
- Alien TV series on FX with Ridley Scott, Y The Last Man and a remake of Shogun.
Kathleen Kennedy is up next, first looking at The Mandalorian and its success.
- New shows: The Rangers of the New Republic and Ahsoka series for Disney Plus under Favreau and Filoni.
- Coming 2022 under Tony Gilroy – Andor. Starring Stellan Skarsgard, Adria Arjona, Fiona Shaw, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, and Genevieve O’Reilly, started filming 2 weeks ago, with Neal Scanlan heading the Creature Department.
- Obi-Wan Kenobi, production starts March 2021, with Hayden Christensen returning as Darth Vader.
- Now animation – The Bad Batch trailer, and announcing Star Wars Visions, 10 shorts from Japanese animation studios.
- Event series – Lando, from Justin Simien.
- Leslye Headland series The Acolyte, showing the final days of The High Republic and the rise of the sith.
- A Droid Story, R2-D2 and C-3PO on a special mission.
- Willow returns to Disney Plus with Warwick Davis.
- In pre-production on the final Indiana Jones, with Harrison Ford, Shooting late spring 2021 for a July 2022 release.
- Next live action Star Wars film to be directed by Patty Jenkins – Rogue Squadron, landing Christmas 2023.
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