ST JJ Abrams to direct Episode VII

Right on. That's why I said "even if it's with a different SW movie later on".

 

I took another look @ that tweet:
http://twitter.com/boborci/status/294598131310555136

Did he say "True!" in response to the question, or in response to the last part of the questioner's tweet?

> "... So far just a lot of 'sources say' ..."
> "True!"

?-)

 

Again.....how is this official when the studios haven't confirmed?

 

Roberto Orci...
MI3, Transformers, Star Trek, Transformers 2, Cowboys and Aliens, Star Trek 2...

Basically Big Things Go Boom Movies...

 

Yep. He's an arguably average writer but a frequent collaborator and friend of JJ/Bad Robot.

 

Orci is one of Abrams closest collaborators, if he says it's true; it is.

 

So will the trailer for EP 7 be from the Writer of Toy Story 3 and Little Miss Sunshine, and the Director of Star Trek and MI:3, George Lucas's original brain child.... Then no title card or clip, just a release date....

 

So will we get a Bad Robot Production opening to EP 7 or are they waving that since it is SW?

 

It'll likely be at the end of the credits. Only change to the opening will be the Disney castle logo instead of the Fox logo.

Although I wonder what will happen with the DGA. They forced Lucas out (basically) for not including any credits at the beginning of the movies, I wonder how Abrams will handle it. Maybe the DGA will make some "Star Wars" exception to the rule since there will be so many more movies?

 

I'm still not convinced that he really confirmed it though.

Apologies for repeating myself here. (NOT trying to ignore forum rules and etiquette.) Anybody agree I might have a valid point here? Did Mr. Orci truly confirm, or was he merely agreeing that 'just a lot of sources say...'?

 

I was convinced at the Variety article. Variety is the trade paper in Hollywood - as someone said, it isn't exactly Aintitcool. If Variety printed it, it's pretty much confirmed.

 

Again, we're not just talking about some random site. Deadline, The Wrap, and Hollywood Reporter are very, very influential sources. We're talking about showbiz trades who actually care, to some extent, about their journalistic reputation. They don't go throwing around the phrase "it's confirmed" just to get hits. And when they get stuff wrong, heads should fly. Again, isn't "Joe-Bob Fanboy's Cavalcade of Movie News."

And yet every time a trade source reports a confirmed story (like with Arndt), everyone on this board turns into Ben friggin Bradlee yelling at Woodward and Bernstein. I know Star Wars fans are used to the Word of Lucasfilm providing them biblical canon on everything including how Wedge Antilles grooms his privates, but that's just not how the rest of the industry works.

 

I see. Consider that dismissed.

I am still inclined to believe Deadline for the moment.

 

This will be a LFL production. Star Wars is a LUCAS creation and production and is being produced under that tentpole with Kathy Kennedy assuming the role that George once had as executive producer. Star Wars is not owned by Bad Robot, so that company will not come into play.

 

furcifer why are you upset about JJ being the director? That is the greatest news I have heard since Disney buying Lucasfilm

 

I stopped blindly trusting them years ago, for a reason I won't detail here ... Suffice it to say, I won't believe everything I read, regardless of where I'm reading it.

 

I'm not. Where did I say I was upset about JJ being the director? Quote me where I said that, or where you think I said it. That said, you are free to interpret my words as you wish, even if wrongly. Go in peace and May the Force be with you my friend.

 

Interesting that Abrams worked with Harrison Ford on Regarding Henry......

 

True, I mistook it. My mistake...

 

And Morning Glory and Cowboys and Aliens...

 

NP. Go in peace and May the Force be with you my friend.

 

I think he won't use them. He may however do something along the lines of Young Spock/Young Kirk before getting into it. But honestly I doubt it, this film is what his entire career has been moving towards. Even Star Trek he directed like a Star Wars, not all Science Talk but Action. He will do good.