JJ Abrams will direct Star Wars 7
#1 Guest_1701_*
Posted 25 January 2013 - 10:58 AM
What does everyone else think? Good news? Bad news? Not really that important news?
#2
Posted 25 January 2013 - 02:35 PM
I ama fan of JJ Abrams and both Star Trek and Star Wars. I love that he is a fan of Star Wars and is going to be doing this.
There is no reason to say if you are involved with one you cant be part of the other. he is a talented man. Let him spread it around to all of the franchises.
#3
Posted 25 January 2013 - 03:58 PM
#4
Posted 25 January 2013 - 07:15 PM
With JJ gone, someone who actually knows Star Trek and cares about it is free to take the helm. Joss Whedon, Seth McFarlane, Jonathan Frakes... hell, the sky's the limit. I'd even be happy with Bob Orci, if he has it in him to direct...
I'm glad JJ's film has resurrected the franchise, but now that the sledgehammer has done it's work, we need a curator to restore it's soul.
#5
Posted 26 January 2013 - 03:21 AM
#6 Guest_1701_*
Posted 26 January 2013 - 06:04 AM
What do we think Paramount will do next?
Where does this leave Bad Robot since surely the next Star Wars film will be produced not by it but by Lucasfilm?
Will Abrams direct both Star Wars and then do Star Trek 3?
Where does this leave the likes of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and the rest of the supreme court?
#7
Posted 26 January 2013 - 10:27 AM
#8
Posted 26 January 2013 - 12:00 PM
#9 Guest_1701_*
Posted 26 January 2013 - 01:15 PM
I think all this needs to be put to bed before May 17th so that Star Trek fans know that theres going to be a positive future to the final Abrams movie even though me may only produce it. looking at a possible Star Trek 3 though who would fit this trilogy and as the Supreme Court have always said, they like to break a story as a team, with Abrams gone will this change the writing team or will Abrams still be a part of the writing process for Trek? Or will they do it without Abrams... A lot of unanswered questions and it seems Trek and Trek fans again are left to wonder about the future and whether or not whoever replaces Abrams can do Star Trek justice as well as doing a film that is successful
#10
Posted 26 January 2013 - 01:59 PM
#11 Guest_1701_*
Posted 26 January 2013 - 02:06 PM
One of the better things about his Treks was that he wasn't a fan but had a team of people who were at different levels of fandom. With Wars there's a worry that Abrams could do a Bryan Singer and Superman Returns and make the biggest fan boy movie of all time switching off a new generation.
Anyway even before Abrams was chosen I was less than bothered about seeing Star Wars and now he's directing I'm even less impressed.
#12 Guest_1701_*
Posted 26 January 2013 - 02:08 PM
#13
Posted 27 January 2013 - 01:30 PM
#14
Posted 28 January 2013 - 08:17 AM
And what Destructor said is spot on: maybe with a new director Star Trek can reclaim its soul.
#15 Guest_1701_*
Posted 28 January 2013 - 09:08 AM
If we are to assume that Into Darkness takes our heroes to darker places, surely a third film would have to be made to restore our heroes and to bring them back but if Abrams can't direct it, which I think won't be decided until Abrams has seen a script for it, who else would be ideal enough to a) finish the job Abrams began, fit within the already established Abrams style and c) respect what Abrams has done with each character but also wrap this story up fittingly.
Unless Into Darkness ends in a way that leaves these characters stories already wrapped up! the only person I can think of that would respect each character in Abrams Trek and really round things out properly would be Abrams.
#16
Posted 29 January 2013 - 08:13 PM
#17 Guest_1701_*
Posted 30 January 2013 - 11:52 AM
Anyway, JJ Abrams will be involved with the next Star Trek movie as at the very least a producer so I think if there is to be a Star Trek 3 it will be in the Abrams style and then from that another team can take it on to do their own thing.
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Posted 31 January 2013 - 07:51 PM
#19
Posted 01 February 2013 - 02:47 PM
#20
Posted 04 February 2013 - 10:57 AM
I agree, and would add that it is complete folly to sign up to a trilogy and then - apparently - not even heave a script for the second, let alone the third movie.
That said, maybe the writers were hanging fire to see which elements of their plotting in the first movie went well and were well received by the audience.
As for Star Wars, part of the what made the first 3 movies so great - and by the first three I mean in which the chronological order in which they were made and NOT the marginalisation that occurred when Lucas made his tedious prequels - was a genuine warm feel and great characters people could care about.
Who cares about Om-Padme-Padme-Om and her never-ending wardrobe or sulky Anakin compared to Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, C3PO and R2?
My point is that Abrams eventually turned out to have a made a great job of breathing new life into old characters (except for Uhura) and I'd quite like to see his take on SW. At least it would knock some of the pomposity out of the prequels and make a return to what the original SW was all about ...simple, great adventure.
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