Fang Zei said:

That said, I think it would be a bit hypocritical of Abrams to ignore Chewie's death after chaining himself to the death of Kirk in Generations as the reason for not including Shatner in the new Trek movies. It would also be kind of a dick move on the part of LFL and Disney to just go "Hey, remember how we killed off Chewie and it was a really big deal? Well, we need to maximize our profits on these new movies, so, guess what? It never happened! Sorry!"

To me, whether or not Chewie is in the movie has absolutely zero bearing on how good the movie will actually be.

As has been stated in this thread by myself and others, hopefully we'll find out soon.

Kirk dying onscreen, and Chewie dying in a novel are two entirely different things.

And Abrams did have a scene at one point, where Shatner would have had a cameo in Trek '09. For various reasons, it was never filmed.

Kirk was revived by the Borg in the novels anyway. :P