Star Wars: The Force Awakens was a stunningly successful movie – recapturing the magic of the older films while managing to point the franchise in a new direction. Now Disney has announced that Episode VIII of the popular franchise has entered full production.

The studio announced the details on it’s website – taking time to post the briefest of teasers for fans to wet their appetite.

Star Wars: Episode VIII is produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Ram Bergman and executive produced by J.J. Abrams, Jason McGatlin, and Tom Karnowski. Joining the production crew will be some of the industry’s top talent, including Steve Yedlin (Director of Photography), Bob Ducsay (Editor), Rick Heinrichs (Production Designer), Peter Swords King (Hair and Make-Up Designer), and Mary Vernieu (US Casting Director). They will be joining returning crew members Pippa Anderson (Co-Producer, VP Post Production), Neal Scanlan (Creature & Droid FX Creative Supervisor), Michael Kaplan (Costume Designer), Jamie Wilkinson (Prop Master), Chris Corbould (SFX Supervisor), Rob Inch (Stunt Coordinator), Ben Morris (VFX Supervisor), and Nina Gold (UK Casting Director). 

Presently Episode VIII is scheduled to touch down in cinemas on 15th December 2017. We suspect it’ll be wroth the wait!