Jetrell Fo said:
Are you glad Kennedy went to all this trouble,
No, not yet anyway.
Jetrell Fo said:
or would you have liked to see someone else in the director’s chair?
Not exactly but forcing someone into the Director chair just because he's done well on other projects isn't a guaranteed good movie. If it turns out to be a good movie I'll be glad. If it turns out to be bad I wouldn't be surprised. It seems like they became blind sighted to other potential directors and put all their eggs in JJ's basket before he even had a basket. I mean what if after the long meeting he did say "no"? That meeting would've been a complete waste of time. Whatever, whole thing seems odd to me. It conjures up an image of the Lucasfilm people on their knees begging JJ Abrams to direct the movie while he sits on a Star Trek style throne.
In other terms Abrams is like this:
Lucasfilm is like this:
