I know it won't be based on an existing story. According to the official announcement, Ep7 will be an original story.
Spoiler free for the ST
Star Wars Episode 7: Movie Stars On J.J. Abrams' Sequel
Quite surprised by Mila Kunis' response and I love that last bit. =P
lastjedi said:
anyone know what book or story they might do for star wars VII?i hope they don't do timothy zahn's thrawn trilogy.i hated his books.jj abrams is a good choice.i liked what he did with star trek,except for the spock kissing ohura stuff.i didn't like his show lost.maybe in the future they can get peter jackson or ridley scott to direct a star wars film.
Small article at Empire. Nothing new.
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=36884
“Grow up. These are my Disney's movies, not yours.”
georgec said:
Small article at Empire. Nothing new.
I wouldn't say this is nothing:
"There are infinitely more questions than answers right now, but to me, they’re not that dissimilar. Though I came at these both from very different places, where they both meet is a place of ‘Ooh, that’s really exciting.’ And even though I was never a Star Trek fan, I felt like there was a version of it that would make me excited, that I would think ‘that’s cool, that feels right, I actually would want to see that.
How we were going to get there, what the choices were going to be, who was going to be in it – all of those things I knew would have to be figured out, but it was all based on a foundation of this indescribable, guttural passion for something that could be. It’s a similar feeling that I have with Star Wars. I feel like I can identify a hunger for what I would want to see again and that is an incredibly exciting place to begin a project. The movies, the worlds could not be more different but that feeling that there’s something amazing here is the thing that they share.”
J.J. Abrams said:
How we were going to get there, what the choices were going to be, who was going to be in it – all of those things I knew would have to be figured out, but it was all based on a foundation of this indescribable, guttural passion for something that could be. It’s a similar feeling that I have with Star Wars. I feel like I can identify a hunger for what I would want to see again and that is an incredibly exciting place to begin a project. The movies, the worlds could not be more different but that feeling that there’s something amazing here is the thing that they share.”
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat he didn't even mention a mystery box!
For what it's worth, I'm a huge Star Trek fan (my interest in watching it second only to Star Wars now, thanks to Harmy and Adywan, as I refuse to watch the SE's).
I've seen every episode of every (live action) series of Star Trek, many of them more than once. Granted, I'm a child of the TNG-era, and I don't like TOS much because of its campiness and over-acting. However, despite my not liking TOS, I do love most of the Kirk movies (2, 3, 4 and 6), having seen Star Trek IV in the theater when I was eight years old.
I liked Star Trek 2009 a lot.
The reason why JJ Abrams not initially being a Trek fan is a good thing, is because he's not intrinsically bound to the many constraints that the Trek universe had set for itself. I've seen the behind-the-scenes stuff for his Trek movie and he did seek a lot of input from various people, each of whom had different levels of interest in/knowledge about Trek (some of whom are serious die-hard fans).
Actually, the one thing I remember most about what JJ said Trek needed was that Star Trek is like classical music and Star Wars is like rock music; so he felt that Star Trek needed some "rock" injected into it in order for the franchise to capture new audiences. And you know... I agree with him about that. Star Trek, while awesome, had become so bound by its established canon, that it would have been difficult to continue the franchise with the intention of gaining new fans without rebooting it and/or finding a new and different approach for it to take.
It's perfectly fine for people to prefer the "Prime Universe," but they still have 24 seasons and 10 movies to fall back on. The problem wasn't with pleasing hardcore fans, it's with gaining new ones--which is the opposite of Star Wars' problem as I see it.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.
Tobar said:
georgec said:
Small article at Empire. Nothing new.
I wouldn't say this is nothing:
"There are infinitely more questions than answers right now, but to me, they’re not that dissimilar. Though I came at these both from very different places, where they both meet is a place of ‘Ooh, that’s really exciting.’ And even though I was never a Star Trek fan, I felt like there was a version of it that would make me excited, that I would think ‘that’s cool, that feels right, I actually would want to see that.
How we were going to get there, what the choices were going to be, who was going to be in it – all of those things I knew would have to be figured out, but it was all based on a foundation of this indescribable, guttural passion for something that could be. It’s a similar feeling that I have with Star Wars. I feel like I can identify a hunger for what I would want to see again and that is an incredibly exciting place to begin a project. The movies, the worlds could not be more different but that feeling that there’s something amazing here is the thing that they share.”
It's just a vague statement that people are excited about the movie.
“Grow up. These are my Disney's movies, not yours.”
Poor "Enterprise", not even counted! ;-)chyron8472 said:
It's perfectly fine for people to prefer the "Prime Universe," but they still have 24 seasons and 10 movies to fall back on. The problem wasn't with pleasing hardcore fans, it's with gaining new ones--which is the opposite of Star Wars' problem as I see it.
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This is pretty solid.
“Grow up. These are my Disney's movies, not yours.”
That is pretty great, albeit missing the new kids. Source?
Not sure. It was posted on another forum without a source link, unless the poster made it himself.
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=7329701&postcount=3565
“Grow up. These are my Disney's movies, not yours.”
A little googling and: http://rampantimaginationa.deviantart.com/art/STAR-WARS-Episode-7-POSTER-360905377
georgec said:
This is pretty solid.
I imagine Grand Master Funk will have facefuzz.
timdiggerm said:
A little googling and: http://rampantimaginationa.deviantart.com/art/STAR-WARS-Episode-7-POSTER-360905377
Nice google-fu. The artist definitely channeled his inner Drew Struzan.
“Grow up. These are my Disney's movies, not yours.”
Eh, Threepio should look older.
TV's Frink said:
Eh, Threepio should look older.
I think he's had work done.
“Grow up. These are my Disney's movies, not yours.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERybvS9rhnA - check out this vid if you haven't already. It shows loads of actors talking about the next Star Wars. Mark Strong would be an awesome villain - I hope they can sign him up!
Disney may feel that hiring the villain of John Carter might be tempting fate.
Personally I think he is brilliant, he was really good in the first Ritchie Holmes film.
I think Mark Hamil should rock an Obi Wan beard.
Does William H. Macy know he's going to star in this?
georgec said:
This is pretty solid.
I refuse to see any new Star Wars film in which Han is wearing an ascot.
“It’s a lot of fun… it’s a lot of fun to watch Star Wars.” – Bill Moyers
Is this not an ascot? ;)
Where were you in '77?
Yes and no ... from certain points of view =P