Star Wars 7

Various sources, including TheWrap (who had it first), are reporting that J.J Abrams ("Star Trek") is in final talks to helm the next "Star Wars" movie. [...]

Suggesting Disney are on the right path when it comes to crafting three, potentially-great new "Star Wars" movies [...]

Suggesting Lucasfilm are chasing some big guns for the job, J.J Abrams has revealed he’s turned down the “Star Wars Episode 7″ directing job. The “Star Trek” director tells Empire, “There were the very early conversations, and I quickly said that, because of my loyalty to Star Trek and also just being a fan, I [...]

Lightsabers up straight, boys! Some plot details may have leaked for the highly-anticipated “Star Wars Episode VII”. Suggesting the new trilogy may be based in part on the ‘Jedi Academy’ series of books, Reuters reports that Lucasfilm are planning to use the same – well, sort of – Guatemalan rainforest that doubled for Yavin 4 [...]

The director of “Star Wars Episode 7″ will be announced next month, Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy tells ABC Radio. “I have no immediate update, but hopefully in January I’ll have something that I can say”, Kennedy, who is in charge of putting together the next three installments of the “Star Wars” series (as well as [...]

It’s safe to say that the frenzy surrounding the movie franchise “Star Wars” shows no signs of wavering just yet. The first film was released back in 1977 but, thanks to advances in technology, LucasFilm has recently confirmed the cinema dates for 3D versions of the next two films in the ”Star Wars” prequel trilogy [...]

Less than a month after George Lucas announced he’d be handing over the keys to the Dagobah System to Kathleen Kennedy, Rick McCallum, instrumental in helping Lucas get such pricey piccies as the “Star Wars” prequel series off the ground, has opted to exit too. McCallum, who joined Lucasfilm in the ’90s to work on [...]

Jon Favreau and David Fincher might also be on Disney’s wish-list to helm “Star Wars : Episode 7″, says Deadline. Though rumours suggest Matthew Vaughn (“X-Men : First Class”) – and Vaughan’s friend and regular collaborator, actor Jason Flemying, recently told the media he believes it’s a done deal – has been hired, Mike Fleming’s [...]

A couple of days back it was rumoured Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg, the screenwriters of “Empire Strikes Back” and “Mr & Mrs Smith” respectively, had been hired to work on “Star Wars Episode 8″ and “Episode 9″ in a writing and producing capacity (Michael Arndt is writing the first of the new “Star Wars” [...]

That may have been a smile dry humping the lower-half of my phizog. I think. Wait, it’ll come around again. Shazbot! There it is again! How’s this for an early Christmas gift, kids!? Matthew Vaughn, he of “Kick-Ass”, “Layer Cake” and “X-Men : First Class” fame, may have indeed locked-up the director’s job on “Star [...]

The force seems to be strong within Kathleen Kennedy. Word from Deadline is that the new head of Lucasfilm may be talking to Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg, respectively, about writing “Star Wars Episode 8″ and “Star Wars Episode 9″. The twosome would succeed Michael Arndt, who is currently writing “Star Wars Episode 7″. Fans [...]

Squishing the hopes of many-a-fanboy, “Mission : Impossible – Ghost Protocol” director Brad Bird has announced he’s not in the running – much to the disappointment of many, claiming he would’ve been a great choice to helm the first chapter in the new trilogy – to direct “Star Wars : Episode VII”. Bird took to [...]

Trying to squeeze info out of current and/or former Lucasfilm employees on the new “Star Wars” trilogy is ostensibly harder than a set-dresser on the day of the big Slave Leia shoot on ‘Blue Harvest’. But try we internet mongers do. What we know about Michael Arndt’s treatment for the new ”Star Wars trilogy” – [...]

Not surprisingly, what with a writer now hired and production inching closer, the director’s wish-list for “Star Wars Episode VII” has been whittled down to only a couple of names. Frank Marshall, husband of Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy, says he has some “inside info on the director] but I can’t reveal it, or I won’t be [...]

Seems most top-tier filmmakers are too afraid to touch “Star Wars”, fearing the full brunt of the force will come down upon them if they disappoint, even slightly, the fan base. J.J Abrams (“Star Trek”) and Jon Favreau (“Iron Man”) would likely pass on the opportunity to direct one of the three new “Star Wars” [...]