JJ Abrams wishes he was directing Star Wars: Episode VIII

The visit wasn’t Hamill’s only charitable effort in what has been a fairly busy month for the actor, what with the premiere of “The Force Awakens” and promotion in support of the box office record-shattering film.

It’s possible EA and DICE didn’t have time to develop anything from Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens. Since then, there has been a 3.5x increase in app installs for these Star Wars-themed apps, as users independently downloaded this content. That record should fall as The Force Awakens is expected to gross $120M. With the current trend of a few big-budget films ruling the box office, “We could see average film rent expenses push higher”, says Wold, which would hurt theater profit margins.

It’s somewhat sacrilegious to criticize Lucas’ original characters, but these four, created by director J.J. Abrams and his cowriters Lawrence Kasdan and Michael Arndt, are, to put it bluntly, better.

According to reports, The Force Awakens filmmaker was so blown away by the script for Star Wars XIII that he regrets not agreeing to direct the next installment!

The third iteration of the toys-to-life adventure game Disney Infinity was released back in August, starring numerous characters from past films and the Clone Wars animated TV show. It’s also worth noting that while the main episodes have directors, plenty of spinoffs would no doubt benefit from the director’s touch, so he could still helm another Star Wars movie somewhere down the line if he chooses! It sounds like there won’t be any content from the new movie sadly. We still don’t know who Rey’s parents are, or how and why she ended up in Jakku. “It was a scene in the movie I later realized I had put the entire crew through shooting, only to cut it”.

With that said, let’s take a look at a few options for how Disney and Lucasfilm could handle the new era of Star Wars movies.