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BREAKING: J.J. Abrams to Direct Star Wars: Episode VII!
TheWrap ^ | January 24, 2012 | N/A

Posted on 01/24/2013 6:09:38 PM PST by Tyrannis

Star Trek Into Darkness helmer J.J. Abrams will direct Star Wars: Episode VII for Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm, reports TheWrap. The site says that Ben Affleck was also in contention.

(Excerpt) Read more at comingsoon.net ...


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1 posted on 01/24/2013 6:09:43 PM PST by Tyrannis
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To: Tyrannis

Awesome news!!!


2 posted on 01/24/2013 6:12:35 PM PST by Tyrannis (Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted)
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To: Tyrannis

Can Star Wars survive lens flares?


3 posted on 01/24/2013 6:12:59 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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4 posted on 01/24/2013 6:14:14 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Tyrannis

Can he revive the story line and get back to the original quality and pace of the first two stories?


5 posted on 01/24/2013 6:15:34 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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I guess we’ll have to find out in 2015


6 posted on 01/24/2013 6:18:12 PM PST by Tyrannis (Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Three word...

Grand

Admiral

Thrawn


7 posted on 01/24/2013 6:19:44 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Tyrannis; GSP.FAN

Is he bringing in Hans Zimmer or John Williams do the score?


8 posted on 01/24/2013 6:20:43 PM PST by Perdogg (Mark Levin - It's called the Bill of Rights not Bill of Needs)
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Please G*d let it be Hans Zimmer
news will be streaming in the coming months
Zach Snyder is doing a stand alone Star Wars movie based upon The Seven Samurai


9 posted on 01/24/2013 6:23:56 PM PST by Tyrannis (Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted)
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I hope there’s a character as awesome as Jar Jar Binks!


10 posted on 01/24/2013 6:26:24 PM PST by EEGator
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Earlier thread on the same subject suggested the best name for the new film (my recap):

“Jar Jar Binks’ Agonized and Prolonged Death.”


11 posted on 01/24/2013 6:26:40 PM PST by freedumb2003 (I learned everything I needed to know about racism from Colin Powell)
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Please let this be the last of these Star war movies.


12 posted on 01/24/2013 6:27:14 PM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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Please oh please do the Thrawn trilogy!


13 posted on 01/24/2013 6:33:00 PM PST by TheRhinelander
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To: Jim from C-Town

He already remade Star Wars as 2009’s Star Trek.


14 posted on 01/24/2013 7:00:34 PM PST by newzjunkey (bah)
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To: Tyrannis

Two hours of blue filter and lens flares.


15 posted on 01/24/2013 7:05:03 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: political1

Lucas wrote nine chapters so technically these would be the last three.


16 posted on 01/24/2013 7:07:44 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'm done with the GOP. Let them wither and die. Let's start over.)
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To: Tyrannis

Maybe he’ll create a time vortex so he can ignore the established history. /sarcasm


17 posted on 01/24/2013 7:21:18 PM PST by cotton1706
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Will the bridge of every Star Wars ship have way too many lights?

18 posted on 01/24/2013 7:22:16 PM PST by Dallas59 (America died a little bit more on 11/6/2012)
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To: Tyrannis

Jar Jar Binks came up with this idea. :)


19 posted on 01/24/2013 7:38:31 PM PST by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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They should have stopped with Star Wars I in 1977. None of the sequels and antecedents that I have seen have been as good.


20 posted on 01/24/2013 7:51:52 PM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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