J.J. Abrams (Star Trek reboot, Lost) will direct new Star Wars movie
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I love Lost and I liked the new Star Trek film... I'm not much of a Star Wars fan but dunno, but J.J Abrams isn't the type of person who makes me rush out to see his stuff.... I'm sure the action and suspense will be there, but as for quality, I am a bit negative.
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Star Trek was good. Lost was just weird. Fringe was awesome.
Still not sure I'm happy though.... I think I'll have to watch it before I can really get in the hype.
Still not sure I'm happy though.... I think I'll have to watch it before I can really get in the hype.
Steven123
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Good and bad. He did an OK job with Star Trek in my opinion and it was nothing more than that. I enjoyed the movie, but it didn't give me that "wow" factor.
I think he'll do a good job and won't disappoint, but I don't think he will look to overstep the boundary and take it to a new level.
I think he'll do a good job and won't disappoint, but I don't think he will look to overstep the boundary and take it to a new level.
JCoatsworth
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'New level' in what way exactly? Like George Lucas with the prequels? 😛
Kidding aside, I haven't seen the Star Trek movie, but from what I've heard, he's a capable director. I mean, he doesn't have much to do with the story. I just hope he'll be able to execute it alright. George Lucas used almost only green screen on Star Wars Episode II and I think even the clone warriors in Episode III were all CGI. Now, in my eyes, that's quite bad execution, because it's really not that much of an effort to dress a bunch of guys up in white plastic armor. He did it before and it looked so much better. The CGI way is just kind of lazy.
If Abrams will approach that movie like Peter Jackson approached LOTR (not The Hobbit), where he let blacksmiths make thousands of chainmail armors and stuff so he could film thousands of real guys fight a battle, I guess it will be quite awesome. Let's just hope they get great writers and a great story for this movie.
Robb Stark
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I wasn't expecting this, but I'm more than happy with it. J.J. Abrams is a great director and storyteller (he wrote Armageddon, which I liked), but he's been a bit hit and miss since LOST ended.
LOST was incredible (easily in my top three shows of all time), and both Cloverfield and Super 8 were good, but Alcatraz was one of the most brutally predictable, boring shows I've ever seen. I haven't seen Star Trek, but on the whole, I like him, and I'm more than happy with the choice.
LOST was incredible (easily in my top three shows of all time), and both Cloverfield and Super 8 were good, but Alcatraz was one of the most brutally predictable, boring shows I've ever seen. I haven't seen Star Trek, but on the whole, I like him, and I'm more than happy with the choice.
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I don't think we have to worry about JJ Abrams relying too much on CGI -- he's not lazy about shooting like Lucas was. If you watch Abrams's Star Trek movie, you'll see that they built sets for pretty much the entirety of the inside of the ship, and even did FX shots without relying too much on CGI (I can't remember which, but there was a scene they did that relied on really clever mirror placement instead of any CGI).
He wasn't the showrunner on LOST, though -- Damon Lindelof was. Abrams fleshed out someone else's idea into a rough outline, wrote and directed the pilot, then basically didn't do anything but approve ideas for the rest of the show's run. That show was pretty much Lindelof's all the way.
Cloverfield was a similar thing -- it was his story and he was the producer, but it was written by Drew Goddard and directed by Matt Reeves.
Now, Super 8? That was him all the way, writing and directing.
As for as all of this relates to Star Wars? Well, I'm just a bit confused about all of this. The idea of the same person handling Star Wars and Star Trek is kind of mindblowing, but Star Wars is likely to be more of a producer driven series, like the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Kevin Feige is the last word on those movies, though Joss might have taken that role at this point -- I'm really not sure how exactly it works there anymore), so the director's role is not as strong as it might be in other movies. It still seems insane, and I'm not entirely sure that I believe it -- I mean, no, there hasn't been a denial from JJ or his agent, but it just seems so out of left field, especially since he said that he wasn't really interested in directing it a while ago.
Robb Stark
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[MENTION=12230]Mischlings[/MENTION] (would have quoted, but for some reason it's not working), well, Lindelof and Carlton Cuse ran LOSt...
And Abrams laid out the outline for the series, wrote and directed the opening two episodes, which is more to what I was referring. My point was more that Abrams is a great ideas-man. And I wouldn't discount his role simply because he's listed as "producer" on IMDB. There's a difference between him producing Cloverfield, where he largely drove the production of the movie and had his fingers in it from start to finish, and how he landed and EP credit on Person of Interest, where aside from the theme music and lending his name to the series he didn't really do much on it. It doesn't really do him or the projects justice to lump them all together like that.
And Abrams laid out the outline for the series, wrote and directed the opening two episodes, which is more to what I was referring. My point was more that Abrams is a great ideas-man. And I wouldn't discount his role simply because he's listed as "producer" on IMDB. There's a difference between him producing Cloverfield, where he largely drove the production of the movie and had his fingers in it from start to finish, and how he landed and EP credit on Person of Interest, where aside from the theme music and lending his name to the series he didn't really do much on it. It doesn't really do him or the projects justice to lump them all together like that.
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The role of "producer" is always the hardest to figure out what exactly it means. But something to take into consideration is that he's not the idea guy here -- the script is already being written by Michael Arndt, so I think that it's a little late for his role as idea guy.
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[MENTION=12271]Kurai[/MENTION]
Yes, I know what you mean. Did you like Episodes I-III?
I always think about them and realize that it actually doesn't matter to me whether the new movies are gonna be good or bad, because I love the old ones and dislike the prequels, so what could the new movies possibly change? It's actually more than likely that those new movies are going to be better than Episodes I, II and III.
Yes, I know what you mean. Did you like Episodes I-III?
I always think about them and realize that it actually doesn't matter to me whether the new movies are gonna be good or bad, because I love the old ones and dislike the prequels, so what could the new movies possibly change? It's actually more than likely that those new movies are going to be better than Episodes I, II and III.
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Yeah, I'm not expecting much. Even before we knew who the director was, even though it's being written by a good writer, I have low expectations. I mean, I get the feeling that it'll be the second Star Wars (after Empire) movie with good dialogue, but I'm still keeping my expectations low.
Then again, I don't completely hate the prequels -- I actually like Revenge of the Sith. I'm a weird person.
So J.J. Abrams is now helming Star Trek AND Star wars? Thats too much geek power for one man to contain lol!
But seriously this is just fantastic news. Abrams was in my top 3 choices for this along with Joss Whedon and Brad Bird. People could argue that Abrams has already made a Star Wars movie aka Star Trek 2009 - which was a lot more action/adventure flavoured than the po-faced, scientific sterility of previous Trek's.
Abrams is in the top tier right now for making engaging Hollywood blockbusters and he is a huge of the original Star Wars movies. I'm sure he'll do us justice.
So far Disney have done everything right regarding this - they've left Kathleen Kennedy to run LucasFilm without interference, they've secured a great writer in Michael Arndt and they've even hired one of my favourite artists, Drew Struzan, to paint the poster art.
Consider me re-invested.
But seriously this is just fantastic news. Abrams was in my top 3 choices for this along with Joss Whedon and Brad Bird. People could argue that Abrams has already made a Star Wars movie aka Star Trek 2009 - which was a lot more action/adventure flavoured than the po-faced, scientific sterility of previous Trek's.
Abrams is in the top tier right now for making engaging Hollywood blockbusters and he is a huge of the original Star Wars movies. I'm sure he'll do us justice.
So far Disney have done everything right regarding this - they've left Kathleen Kennedy to run LucasFilm without interference, they've secured a great writer in Michael Arndt and they've even hired one of my favourite artists, Drew Struzan, to paint the poster art.
Consider me re-invested.
white avenger
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I don't know. I'm looking at this the same way that I look at the possible reboots of "Buffy" and "Highlander," the proposed new animated "Tarzan," (non-Disney, at least!) and the ongoing rewrite of Roddenberry's original "Star Trek" universe. I hope that they will all be great, and I'm going to try and see them all, or the ones who finally make it onscreen, anyhow, with as much of an open mind as I can muster.
I'm not really that much of a Prequel hater, but I'm not really a fan of Episodes II or III. I actually enjoy Episode I, but that's mostly due to nostalgia since it was the first film I ever saw in the cinema, but asides from Jar Jar, kid Anakin, and the whole 'tax dispute' thing, it wasn't that bad. Episode II is even worse than that, it's just dull, with most of it focusing on the Anakin and Padme romance. Not that I have a problem with romance, but in Attack of the Clones, it's dull and is riddled with poor dialogue like 'I Don't Like Sand, It's Coarse, And Rough, And Irritating, And It Get's Everywhere'. It has some good moments though, but it's really not that great. Episode III was a bit better, but still contains some horrible acting and dialogue (seriously, why was Palpatine so OTT in Episode III?)
JCoatsworth
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From the prequels I like Episode I best. I think Episode II is the worst. Not only is the dialog totally boring and quite badly written, the acting is also horrible. And have you ever noticed that they almost always use the same camera angles and almost every conversation is started standing, before they sit down and, after a while, stand up again?
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Abrams' franchise films (Star Trek and Mission: Impossible III) are his best, so perhaps Star Wars: Episode VII will be very good. I think that he is a better actor's director than George Lucas, anyway.