The Weinstein Company, according to a report from Slashfilm, has apparently decided to again push back the release date of the beleaguered Star Wars fan movie, “Fanboys”, to February 6th, 2009. The film was initially scheduled to come out in 2007, with “Coming to our galaxy in 2007” as the original tagline, and then was pushed back to a November of 2008 release.
“Fanboys”, starring Kristen Bell, Sam Huntington, Dan Fogler, Chris Marquette, and Jay Baruchel, is set in 1998 and is about a group of “Star Wars” fanboy friends who decide to steal an early copy of “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” from George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch for a friend of theirs dying of cancer. Along the way they encounter villainous Star Trek fans and William Shatner, among other obstacles. The inclusion of the cancer-suffering friend was rumored to have ended up being cut from the film when it was rescheduled for the 2008 release, though director Kyle Newman, in July of 2008, did confirm that that plot point will be in the final cut of the movie despite rumors.
The rescheduling decision was made, according to the Weinstein Co, not in response to rumored financial woes plaguing the company but rather a decision to move all the company’s releases, minus the upcoming “Zack and Miri Make a Porno”, to having 2009 release dates to be able to give the films a bigger push.
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By Costa Koutsoutis, (Source: MTV.com)