JJ Abrams is going to direct Star Wars VII

[YetAnotherBloodyCheek]

Hi,

just a short side note, JJ Abrams will direct Star Wars VII.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/60553

So,

- will Star Trek II be his last last one regarding this franchise?
- will the new SW movie contain Lost-like plotholes?
- will there be enough len flare shots?

Personally, I would like to see a Tarantino version of Star Wars. The prequel trilogy already included Samuel L. Jackson...

[LiamKerrington]

Hi,

Q1: Not sure; from my personel point of view ST and SW don't necessarily exclude each other ... Imagine SW with Romulan Warbirds or ST with a Deathstar. Sweet.
Q2: Even if it contains plotholes, do you think they could be any worse to what the audience experienced in SW Episode I or in the comparison of Episode I through II on the one side and the original SW-movies on the other?
Q3: Explain: "len flare shots" ... !

I'd like to see a SW-version based on the combined skills of John Woo, Michael Bay, and ... and ... Uwe Boll, if I wished to see an epic fail regarding SW VII. Else I think JJ Abrams is not the worst choice, but probably not a bett one as well. Time will tell. JJ Abrams has skills, and he proved to fail as well as to confirm them.

All the best!
Liam

[YetAnotherBloodyCheek]

A1: There have ALWAYS been Romulan warbirds on SW. But they were cloaked.
A2: The prequel trilogy never happened as far as I am concerned.
A3: Ah, damn it, typo, sorry. I meant "lens flare shots, just give it a shot at Google.

Uwe Boll, OMFG. Certainly one of the *greatest* weapons of intellectual mass destruction from Germany which has ever been deployed to the US.

[LiamKerrington]

Hi.

1. Ah, which is why I didn't see them.
2. Granted.
3. Yeah, ok. Yes, there will be - at least just enough, if not more.

All the best!
Liam

[Red Shirt]

Ah, well shoot. Disney could do worse than JJ Abrams. Apparently they ignored the petitions I heard they got buried in to have Joss Whedon do it.

It doesn't make any sense actually. Disney owns Marvel and Joss Whedon proved that their trust was not misplaced to the tune of $623.3 million with Avengers... Why not put him on another property? Argh. Trying to understand the tie-wearin' bean counters... an exercise in futility.



DID SOMEBODY SAY LENS FLARE?

[Osiris]

J.J. Abrams
Michael Arndt
Kathleen Kennedy
Lawrence Kasdan
Simon Kinberg

On top of all that, the return of the original cast? Sweet baby Jesus on fire, you can't miss with that. It's like printing money. It's like putting Urkle in the ring with Mike Tyson. You know how it ends before it begins. Abrams will knock that shit out the park. And so what about lens flare? Don't hate for the sake of hating. You see what he did for Star Trek? Brought that shit back from the dead and made it relevant again. He'll do a great job. As for the "plot holes" in lost, chalk that up to the writer, not the director. Abrams isn't writing Episode 7, he's directing it. There's no way he can make things worse and with the monsters he's got in his corner, you can be assured he's going to make something baller as fuck that is a million times better than the prequels.

[Osiris]

Seriously, take a look at K2's track record of MASSIVE hits. And not just massive, but beloved. Even her misses are a million times better than the hits of 90% of the producers out there today. She's a fucking legend.

[YetAnotherBloodyCheek]

In order to put the record straight, I have to say that I still have mixed feelings about his Star Trek film. I enjoyed it a lot, it is a great film. But it never left the safety zone. It was just a reboot which not only introduced some out of character moments regarding the main cast, it even erased more than four decades of established story lines. Well, yeah, we now have an alternative timeline, but... why did he not create something truly original?

And therefor I guess that his approach to Star Wars will create a standardized Star Trek sequel flick. Do not get me wrong here, it will be quite enjoyable, but it will be handcuffed to whatever Disney thinks a Star Wars film should look like. I fear for the worst and hope for the best.

[LiamKerrington]

Hi.

I feel inclined to say that the new Star Trek movie with its "whammy effects" was and is a movie which fits into this "new" age. And JJ Abrams did a decent job.
Considering the technologies available at Disney, the skills of Abrams as a director, and especially the interest of Disney to get repaid for the huge investment into the SW-trademark, I think we will see something "good".
And Osiris is actually right: Abrams does not write the script; he just has to take care that the movie looks good on the silver-screen - either in 2, 3, 4 or how-many-dimension³ ever. The question would be: Do the writers do a good job; and if not, will Abrams' skills be enough to transform a shitty script into an awesome screen-experience? And another question would be, how much control the Disney-bosses will force upon JJ Abrams and how much this would affect the quality of the movie as well. Just imagine: "Pocahontas on Endor" ... Or "The Wookie and the Sith" ... Or much better: "The Hunchback of Imperial I" ... Or "The Jedi-King" subtitled "The Circle of Force" ... or maybe "Adventures of the Gummi Ewoks" (which would be kind of awesome having those little furballs jumping and bumping around ...) ... Or imagine "Pirates of Dantooine" or something like "The Wizard of Dagobah" or "R2D2 and the Black Cauldron" ...

Man, there was made so much good shit at Disney's that I get more and more excited about what they actually could achieve with SW ... And I think JJ Abrams might be a good call.

Time will tell ...

All the best!
Liam

[YetAnotherBloodyCheek]

Liam, I totally agree with you.

All we know about the script is that it will be written by Michael Arndt who has penned the scripts for


Little Miss Sunshine (2006) (screenplay) – won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Toy Story 3 (2010) (screenplay) – nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Brave (2012) (additional screenplay material)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) (screenplay)
Oblivion (2013) (screenplay)
Phineas and Ferb (2014) (screenplay)
The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside The Mind (2015) (screenplay)

Source: en.wikipedia.org.

Little Miss Sunshine received universal acclaim if I remember correctly. So he could be just the right choice for the job. However, time will tell. In my opinion, his later works are missing a certain (please do not crucify me if I am using the wrong word here) angularity, they are a bit too mainstream. But I will keep my fingers crossed.