J J. Abrams to direct next Star Wars film

Credit: Lucasfilm

 Ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm last year and announced that there would be more Star Wars films alot of people have been speculating as to who would be directing the next film.

There has been many names that have been thrown in the mix; Zack Snyder, Matthew Vaughn, Steven Spielberg, Gary Ross and Christopher Nolan, just to mention a few.

But this past thursday the announcement everybody had been waiting for finally arrived. In a statement from Disney it was revealed that J.J. Abrams will direct the next Star Wars film. After reading several internet articles there seem to be mixed feelings about this.
I think that he's a great choice, given his earlier work with Star Trek(2009) and Super 8(2011). But it will be interesting to see the final result when it comes out in 2015. He has a tendency to make movies with a pretty fast pace, something that the Star Wars movies hasn't really had.

Lawrence Kasdan, the screenwriter for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi write the script for the next movie together with Simon Kinberg who wrote Sherlock Holmes and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

I'm excited for 2015! :) :) :)