‘Star Wars’ embraces lady energy with new heroine stories, toys
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Star Wars is beefing adult a lady energy by a new array of charcterised brief cinema featuring a sci-fi saga’s heroines including Princess Leia, Rey and Jyn Erso.
Walt Disney Co and Lucasfilm announced on Thursday that Star Wars Forces of Destiny will concentration on a “untold stories of bland intrepidity that figure a destinies” of a categorical womanlike characters in a franchise.
The pierce is a latest by Disney to enlarge a male-dominated assembly for a Star Wars series, that is celebrating a 40th anniversary of a strange 1977 film starring Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill.
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The 2-3 notation shorts will be launched on Disney YouTube in Jul and followed by some-more shorts on Disney Channel radio in a autumn. A operation of new movement total and dolls, as good as other merchandise, will also be released.
“Star Wars Forces of Destiny is for anyone who has been desirous by Leia’s heroism, Rey’s courage, or Ahsoka’s tenacity,” Kathleen Kennedy, boss of Lucasfilm, pronounced in a statement.
Actors Daisy Ridley (Rey), Felicity Jones (Jyn) and Lupita Nyong’o (Maz Kanata) will voice their characters. The voice for Princess Leia, played in a cinema by Carrie Fisher, will be granted by Shelby Young following Fisher’s remarkable genocide of a heart conflict in December.
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The new operation will embody a doll in that Rey swings her light-saber, her extendable staff and an electronic Jedi energy light-saber toy.
John Frascotti, boss of toymaker Hasbro Inc, pronounced in a matter a Star Wars fan bottom has broadened over a final 40 years, and a Forces of Destiny toy line would “help bond with new audiences as good as interest to existent fans.”
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