Also, guys: THIS. WILL. HAVE. NOTHING. TO. DO. WITH. THE. EXPANDED. UNIVERSE. GOOD DAY.

Thank fuck.

What do you guys mean by Disney EU? Should we be expecting Easter egg cameos of Nemo or something?

This is what some people are genuinly afraid of, dead serious.

Leia will reprise his

But I just saw in the news that Leia will reprise his role for the new SW episodes, as well as some other old actors will...

it just might be the usual air controversy to keep attention on the subject, but still, what the fuck?

It's probably fake

The plot of episode vii will be about a galactic regulatory dispute over a space savings and loans scandal.

Sounds like a Star Trek episode.

It's probably fake, but it's a badass awesome poster nonetheless.

Sounds like a Star Trek episode.

Well he did direct Super 8 and Mission Impossible 3 which were both great movies. Then again, he directed that terrible Star Trek movie...

J.J. Abrams to Direct Star Wars: Episode VII

Oh, for fuck's sake...

Now you SW fans will know us ST fans' pain.

You know they won't steer clear of CGI. Unfortunately, it's become a staple of modern (sci-fi, and other) movies, and Abrams is one of the worst offenders. I'm not thrilled about this choice of director - he's neither the best nor the worst choice - but I also never had much faith in this movie from the outset. I will say, though, that I was honestly wondering if Kevin Smith might direct it. He's obviously a huge Star Wars fan, and might have done a good job of it. Guess it doesn't matter now, at least not until episodes VIII and IX.

What, the pain of the last movie being better than the entirety of Enterprise and Deep Space Nine, and a fair bit of Voyager?

Also, Lost. So -1000000 credibility points.

If they're gonna hire a celebrity nerd to make it, why not Whedon? Then he can pretend to make a Star Wars film ("hey it has space ships, see?") and use the budget the make a new Serenity movie.

Contrary to popular misbelief, his involvement in LOST is extremely marginal: He was asked to help fleshing out a concept for a show when the guy who had the initial idea (then ABC chairman Lloyd Braun) was not happy with what the first guy asked to flesh out the concept (Jeffrey Lieber) had come up with. Abrams was never really committed to the show, and had another (rejected) pilot called The Catch that he was already working on, so another guy (Damon Lindelof) was hired to flesh out the concept for the show together with Abrams (they threw everything Lieber had previously come up with out of the window, effectively leaving only Braun's initial idea intact. Regardless, Lieber was later granted a ridiculous 60% creator's credit after taking legal action). Abrams wrote and directed the pilot and then went off to direct Mission Impossible III just as the first season was taking off, arguably similar to his abandonment of Alias for Lost. Lindelof, suddenly left alone with the Showrunner burden, considered quitting too, but was convinced by his former co-writer (Carlton Cuse) to stay. Cuse then joined the show as a second showrunner, and has been pulling the strings together with Lindelof ever since.

Abrams later briefly returned and wrote the season 3 premiere together with Lindelof, but apparently realized the show really wasn't for him. Regardless, he's still officially credited as an executive producer as of season 6 (the final season), even though he has repeatedly confirmed in interviews that he has nothing to do with the show anymore, and all he really does is approve everything Lindelof and Cuse come up with. (Lindelof even once joked that Jimmy Kimmel knows more about LOST than Abrams does.)