http://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney- ... asfilm-ltd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... yqlTi7lkhY

George has treatments for Star Wars 7, 8, 9.

This news shocked me today. I'm a big Star Wars fan and my only comment about this news is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s

If they get some of the Pixar people involved with this... then the new trilogy might end up being better than the Prequels.... just as good as the originals, actually.

Spielberg has allways wanted to do one star wars film.. here's the chance. Chris Nolan is a fan too... that would be the probable best possible choice....

Me, I'd love to see Guillermo del Toro have a go.


just dont let JJ Abrams get close...

dont let michael bay near star wars either

Risky business but then it can hardly be worse than the fucked up prequels were...

I liked Revenge of the Sith... it made up for a lot of the mistakes of the previous movies.
Attack of the Clones had some cool moments but was otherwise lame...
The Phantom Menace was terribad, despite Darth Maul being an utter boss.

Let's hope for the best.

i dont understand what peoples problems are with the prequels, yeah they are a bit cheesy, but its usually balanced out with serious moments, and they are entertaining.

I actually think the worst of them all is a new hope, come on, thats full of flaws, theres a desert scene that drags on forever, even for those days, its just painful to sit through, and ROTJ is just a kids movie with teddy bears and a single cool lightsaber battle.

I wish they would rewrite the lot, and start over, have episode one start when anakin is an adult to mirror how luke was, and split his transformation to darth vader over 2 episodes, almost to mirror how han solo was frozen over 5 & 6, have anakin need to take a long recovery to come back to life only to find his wife betray him while hes in a coma, hence he turns to the dark side. but that will never happen, wouldnt sell enough toys..

at the very least they need to fix 'a new hope' editing could go a long way, make the lightsaber battle look less retarded, make blowing up a planet a little more dramatic than 'oh no'

but in all seriousness, they are 'ok' how they are, i hope the original cast come back for 7, and then mercilessly killed off!!

Vaughn Rumored for New 'Star Wars' Installment; Ford Interested in Revisiting Han Solo
6 November 2012



One of the exciting prospects for veteran Spielberg poducer Kathleen Kennedy as the new president at Disney-owned Lucasfilm is that she is more than capable of developing a strong script and luring gifted filmmakers to the planned "Star Wars" franchise reboot. Even without a script on hand, directors are lining up.

Director Matthew Vaughn ("X-Men: First Class", "Stardust") is rumored to be in talks to direct the newly announced "Star Wars: Episode VII", having recently dropped out of the next "X-Men" installment (old hand Bryan Singer is taking the reins). The news of "Episode VII" came last week during the Disney's announcement of the major purchase of Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion.

Meanwhile, Harrison Ford says he is open to the idea of playing Han Solo again in "Episode VII," which reportedly takes up decades after 1983's "Episode VI" left off. Presumably the older trio would hand off the story to a younger generation, a tried-and-true approach to rebooting a franchise, much as a senior Spock (Leonard Nimoy) did in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek."

EW reports that not only Ford, but "all three" – including Mark Hammill as Luke Skywalker and Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia – are interested in being involved with the upcoming Star Wars film. EW speculates that if Ford were to draw up a new contract, it would involve a mandatory death scene for Solo. The character was originally meant to die in "Return of the Jedi," but according to Ford, his bankability as an action figure kept Solo alive.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/

Matthew Vaughn is of course no David Fincher nor Ridley Scott but he could well be a good fit for directing Star Wars. Vaughn did a very decent job with the 'X-Men: First Class' material and especially with 'Stardust' which was one the best fantasy adventure movies made in the 00s and the movie that shows that Vaughn has the needed flair for the project.

Having Harrison Ford (Han Solo), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) in the new movie would give a lot of oomph and credibility to the project as it would very concretely connect the new movie to the superior original Star Wars trilogy which in turn would help in regaining public's confidence towards a new Star Wars movie again after the disappointing and much-maligned prequels. So having them in would not only be a huge box-office draw but a very much-needed move and I'm fairly sure this will happen.

these harrison ford rumours are based on an anonymous email, its a source of a source, barely a grain of salt.

Star Wars: Episode VII May Have Found It's Writer
8 November 2012



Informed sources tell Vulture that Star Wars: Episode VII has found a leading candidate to write the film’s screenplay: Michael Arndt, the Pixar favorite who was nominated for an Oscar for Toy Story 3, won an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine, and wrote The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which is currently shooting. Insiders confirm that Arndt has written a 40- to 50-page treatment for the film and is likely to be at least one of the writers when the Disney/Lucasfilm project begins shooting in 2014.

The merger between George Lucas’s brainchild and Disney, announced October 30, caught the town by surprise. And talent agents were similarly astonished to learn that Arndt had been at work on the treatment long before the deal was announced, catching them flat-footed and cutting off any chance they’d have to proffer their own many eager candidates for the coveted job.

Sources also tell Vulture that the studio’s brass want to bring back the three central characters of the original Star Wars: a much older Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo. No deals are in place with any of the original actors, though our source did say it had high ambitions to sign up Mark Hamill, and EW recently reported that Harrison Ford was open to the idea of returning. We're told that Arndt's 40-something page treatment will soon be crossing the desks of top directors, including Brad Bird, Steven Spielberg (the former producing partner of Lucasfilm co-chair Kathleen Kennedy), and J.J. Abrams. Whether they’d be interested is unknown (Star Wars is a lot of baggage for an established director), but Disney wants to make sure they’ve at least tried the biggest names.

A representative for Arndt declined to comment, referring all calls to Kennedy, who did not return a call seeking comment at deadline. A Lucasfilm spokeswoman declined to comment, saying, "We have no news to report at this time."

The choice of Arndt to pen a treatment makes perfect sense, given both his prestige as a screenwriter and his close relationship with Disney’s equally secretive Pixar — he’s the screenwriter of the cheekily titled Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside the Mind for Up director Pete Docter, currently in preproduction — but there’s one more reason still that Arndt would be so appealing to Disney and Lucasfilm: He’s a Star Wars expert.

Since winning the Oscar for Sunshine, Arndt has lectured extensively on the art of storytelling at numerous writers’ retreats, like the Hawaii Writers Conference in Maui and the Austin Film Festival, always featuring a lengthy and detailed explanation of why the original Star Wars’ ending is so creatively satisfying.

At these talks, Arndt always tells attendees that Star Wars’ enduring appeal has to do with resolving its protagonists goals’ nearly simultaneously, at the climax of the movie. In the comments section of a discussion about a Star Wars talk Arndt gave at the Austin Film Festival in 2010, one attendee of the seminar notes, "Arndt stated that if a writer could resolve the story's arcs (internal, external, philosophical) immediately after the Moment of Despair at the climax, he or she would deliver the Insanely Great Ending and put the audience in a euphoric state. The faster it could happen, the better. By [Arndt’s] reckoning, George Lucas hit those three marks at the climax of Star Wars within a space of 22 seconds."

Indeed, in the third act of Star Wars, as Arndt explained to his young screenwriting Padawans at the 2009 Hawaii Writers Conference, its central characters' main goals all are met on pages 89 through 91 of the original Lucas script: At the crescendo of Star Wars, a spectral Obi Wan urges, “Use the Force, Luke,” and he does, thus reaching his inner goal (fighting self-doubt to become a hero). Han Solo reappears (meeting the philosophical goal of overcoming selfishness with altruism) to shoot down Darth Vader, which allows Luke to use the Force to mentally guide his shot and blow up the Death Star (outer goal and inner goals simultaneously met).

So while it remains to be seen whether Arndt will forge ahead with an entire script for Episode VII, clearly, as Vader might say, “The Force is strong with this one.”

http://www.vulture.com/2012/11/star-war ... riter.html

It's Official: Michael Arndt to Write 'Star Wars: Episode VII'
9 November 2012




It's official. Kathleen Kennedy confirms that Michael Arndt is the new writer for "Star Wars: Episode VII." She was celebrating the AFI FEST closing night world premiere of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" Thursday, along with Disney chairman Robert Iger, who when pressed, admitted that he wouldn't have paid $4.05 billion for Lucasfilm if he didn't think Disney, Lucasfilm and Kennedy couldn't turn out the best "Star Wars" film ever made.

One of the most tantalizing bits of information from the Lucasfilm conference call with Iger was the existence of a 40-page treatment for the next three "Star Wars" episodes. I assumed Lucas himself had written this. It turns out it was Arndt. That's why he had the inside shot on writing the script, which could lure a top director (say, Kennedy/Lucas collaborator Spielberg) (as opposed to the rumored Matthew Vaughn) as well as Episodes IV, V and VI stars Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/...arndt-to-write-star-wars-episode-vii

Fuck no. I hoped they forget about the original cast and move the story say thousands of years into the future, or at least make something that fits with knights of the old republic, show the sith in all their glory and a true jedi-sith war. This is just milking it.

id like to see a film version of shadows of the empire