Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)

[epilogue]

It had been like a page since you mentioned JJ Abrams. I was starting to get really worried about you.

[B]

Wait, Boba Fett is already dead, how can they have a spin off of him?

He got out

i unfortunately can confirm this

[dimejinky99]

J.J. Abrams Says Star Wars: Episode VII's Script Is Complete
And Kathleen Kennedy discusses the franchise's future

20 January 2014 | Written by James White | Source: The Wrap


With production set to start this year, recent talk about J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan taking over the screenplay for Star Wars: Episode VII had some worried that the schedule was slipping. Now Abrams, attending the Television Critics Association press tour in support of his new show Believe, offered an update on the script’s status and addressed rumours that he’s talked to Breaking Bad actor Jesse Plemons for a role.

“We’re working really hard and we’ve got our script and we’re in deep prep,” Abrams told The Wrap. “Full steam ahead.” As for Plemons, he’s definitely been in for a meeting, though he’s one of many.



Abrams acknowledges that his secrecy invites lots of rumours, but seems unconcerned about the vast majority. “There’ve been so many of them. It’s amazing to see how many there are. But it’s sweet because it shows that there’s an interest in this movie that we all obviously know is there. But it is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people often then write commentaries about. How happy they are, how disappointed they are about something that is completely false. It’s a lot of noise, frankly.”

One subject he was happy to address was whether he’d shoot the new Wars outing in IMAX. “In the right situation I would,” he said. “The problem with IMAX is it’s a very loud camera. It’s a very unreliable camera. Only so much film can be in the camera. You can’t really do intimate scenes with it. It’s slow. They break down often. Having said that, they’re working on digital versions of these and so there may be a version one day. But we’re going to be shooting this next movie on film.”

Given the ambitious plans of Abrams, Disney, Lucasfilm and Kathleen Kennedy for the future of the franchise, with its mixture of new trilogy and spin-off films, people have naturally been wondering about the likelihood of crossovers between the two strands. Now, at the opening of Disney/Lucasfilm’s new Singapore facility, Kennedy commented on the general plan going forward.

“George was so clear as to how that works,” she told The Straits Times (via the ToysrEvil blog). “The canon that he created was the Star Wars saga. Right now, Episode VII falls within that canon. The spin-off movies, or we may come up with some other way to call those films, they exist within that vast universe that he created. There is no attempt being made to carry characters from the standalone films in and out of the saga episodes. Consequently, from the creative standpoint, it’s a roadmap that George made pretty clear."

So from the sound of it, the three new saga entries will, as planned, continue the main story of Star Wars with Luke, Leia, Han and whoever else, while the spin-offs will focus on side narratives such as the much-mooted Boba Fett tale. The urge to blend them into one, big, synchronistic story must be strong (especially for the studio that also owns Marvel), but we’re hoping that Episode VII and the other two planned films can stand on their own strengths without needing to dip in and out of other stories.

While he’s generally overseeing the films, Abrams is much more focused on Episode VII for now. The film remains headed for its December 18, 2015 release slot.

[lowlight79]

I don't know, Nolan had no problems with iMax cameras and the noise. Is J.J just admitting he is not talented enough to film with them?

[McParadigm]

Maybe. Maybe he's figuring that most of his big action sequences will be giant CG stuff interspersed with shots of dudes sitting in cockpits, so there's no point to using IMax.

But maybe...just maybe...the lack of gimmickry camera selection is a good sign. IMax didn't fix or hide the problems with Dark Knight Rises, 3D is really just immersion over story, and Peter Jackson made the Hobbit look like butt with his frame rate gobbledigook.

I'd love to just pretend for a minute that JJ is uninterested in utilizing visual adjustment cameras because he wants to tell a powerful character sto-



Nevermind.

[McParadigm]

J.J. Abrams Says Star Wars: Episode VII's Script Is Complete

Didn't they just toss out Arndt's work and start over from scratch in like....December???

[McParadigm]

End of October I guess. Still seems like a mighty quick from-scratch.

[VinylGuy]

End of October I guess. Still seems like a mighty quick from-scratch.

Are you calling him LIAR?

[McParadigm]

That would be better than the alternative.

[dimejinky99]

I'm worried. Do they mean they have the whole script and story for the three films mapped out? Or just the script for one?

None of this inspires confidence.

[McParadigm]

This is how you end up with a movie that leaves people going "Why didn't he just go to the authorities after Khan used his blood to save his daughter, and not murder people after his incentive to cooperate was gone? What kind of idiot deal maker is this Khan guy, that he just cured the girl before getting anything from the guy? That seems like a really unnecessary risk. Actually, why did he need this dude to do this for him anyway? He literally couldn't think of a better and more fool-proof way to blow up that building? Wait...why is Spock going into the volcano? They don't have remote controls? Or TIMERS? Cold fusion? Cold fusion to calm a volcano? Did you just use that term because it has the word 'cold' in it?! Are you really that stupid, or do you just think that I am? Don't answer that. And now that I'm on it, what about the underlying pressures that cause eruptions? Did you just freeze the pressures, too? Why is-"

It pretty much never ends. Classic Abrams "we don't have to give a shit about the story as long as it gets us to our set pieces and we give each character one or two little emotion scenes somewhere in the middle third."

[dimejinky99]

I've a feeling you're 100% right on this McP.

[epilogue]

[@SkitchP]

You guys seem really mad about the unreliability of Imax cameras.

[epilogue]

I really couldn't care less about IMAX cameras one way or the other.

[@SkitchP]

I really couldn't care less about IMAX cameras one way or the other.

Why else would everyone be so mad about a 'yeah the script is done" press release?

[epilogue]

I really couldn't care less about IMAX cameras one way or the other.

Why else would everyone be so mad about a 'yeah the script is done" press release?

I have no earthly idea, friend. Maybe because JJ Abrams?

[BurtReynolds]

light-sabers seem like dumb weapons to me. I hope those aren't in this new one.

[dimejinky99]

Normally I'm dead set against hating something before ive seen or heard it for myself.
I think in think instance, it might be the wisest course of action.

[McParadigm]

light-sabers seem like dumb weapons to me. I hope those aren't in this new one.