Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4bn - New Star Wars film out in 2015

Can't be worse than the prequels so I don't see why fans are complaining about these sequels. With the Star Trek director, some award winning script writers (including Toy Story 3 writer and The Empire Strikes Back writer) and the original cast, surely it can't be worse than the prequels. If George Lucas was involved, no doubt would we be getting terrible actors like Hayden Christensen or Shia La Beouf on board. The man's ideas and casting for Star Wars and Indiana Jones 4 pretty much showed the guy had gone insane. One line summed up Steven Spielberg's feelings towards Indiana Jones 4 - 'I always stay faithful to George's stories'. Read between the lines and he's basically saying 'dont blame me!'. The alien in that film was the least of my worries, it was Shia La Boeuf's casting which was obviously there as a ploy to start a new franchise. Thankfully, everyone hated him.

How George Lucas Might F@#% Up Indiana Jones 4

Before they had completed the original three Lucas was going on about making 10 or more movies, telling actors they'd be involved, etc. Shows he's never really been right in the head. One hell of an imagination to create Star Wars, though, I'll give him that.

Some thoughts from JJ Abrams about the upcoming movie:

Mention the name JJ Abrams and there’s one question that immediately barges all others aside: what’s the plan for Episode VII? While he was able to approach Star Trek with a detached objectivity, how will he, as a huge Star Wars fan approach Star Wars' bold new era? Empire put that question to the man himself when we recently sat down with him at his Bad Robot offices in LA.

“I don’t know because we’re just getting started. So it’s a great question that I hope I’ll have a good answer to when I know what the answer is. 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.”

Lucasfilm whipped fans into a frenzy this year when they announced that JJ Abrams would be the man to bring Star Wars back to the big screen. The director had turned down Episode VII last year, throwing people off the scent, but in a surprise volte face he subsequently accepted the mantle and became a new hope for the galaxy far, far away.

“My knee-jerk reaction was that I’m in the middle of working on the Star Trek movie and I can’t even consider it. But then time went by and I got further along working on the movie and getting to a place where I had done most of the heavy lifting. So when I met with Kathy Kennedy we just started discussing it and I was able to actually engage in the conversation. I went down to tell Katie, my wife, and I said ‘I had just a very interesting conversation with Kathy.’ That was the beginning.

“I will say that Steven [Spielberg] was very encouraging of Star Wars. It’s funny because I talked to him about it and it turned out he knew all about what was going on.”

Anyone here a Star Wars fan? Not totally into it but I'm wondering how they will incorporate the new characters with the originals. Ben Skywalker as the future lead? Wonder who will play him if so.