J.J. Abrams To Direct Episode IX - It's official!!!!

@FrolickingFizzgig wrote:I know not everybody is going to feel the same way, but I'm thrilled with this announcement. With all his flaws, JJ hits it out of the ballpark when it comes to emotional character driven writing, and I loved and still love TFA to pieces. He was the best choice, IMO, outside of a co-op between JJ and Rian, which would have been my #1 option bar none (and what should have been the plan all along, but I digress). His commentary just proved how well he understands the nuances these characters need to have. Plus he's the ultimate Kylo fan and Kylo redemptionist. What more can you ask for?

@IoJovi wrote:I'll confess it felt great to change the name of this thread to JJ.  He too was my second choice after Rian.  

I don't know anything about Chris Terrio.  What is SvB?  Is that the title or an acronym?  

My only concern with JJ is that he's great at creating the opening of a story with questions that need answering, but not so great on answering those questions.  Hopefully Rian will be able to answer much of the mystery box posed in TFA, so all he will need to do is wrap it up.  Plus he has a co-writer and will be getting other input from Aladdin, KK, etc.  

I take this also to mean that Jack Thorne is out completely?

@vaderito wrote:JJ gave us "very interesting relationship" "two disparate pieces come together", Prince Kylo.

@Darth_Awakened wrote:

@vaderito wrote:JJ gave us "very interesting relationship" "two disparate pieces come together", Prince Kylo.

@vaderito

In brief: if there wasn't for JJ - we wouldn't be here.

And that's all that matters. (at least for me)

@Forsythia wrote:The antis are now claiming that JJ is the "#1 anti Reylo"

@Forsythia wrote:The antis are now claiming that JJ is the "#1 anti Reylo"

@vaderito wrote:JJ gave us "very interesting relationship" "two disparate pieces come together", Prince Kylo.

@adamdrivershair wrote:

@vaderito wrote:JJ gave us "very interesting relationship" "two disparate pieces come together", Prince Kylo.

@vaderito

Ooh - does that mean the floofy hair is returning?!?

I'm really happy. Whatever ideas he had for these characters at the start will see fruition. If Reylo was meant to be, it'll happen; if not, it won't. I can live with that.

@SkyStar wrote:

@adamdrivershair wrote:

@vaderito wrote:JJ gave us "very interesting relationship" "two disparate pieces come together", Prince Kylo.

@vaderito

Ooh - does that mean the floofy hair is returning?!?

I'm really happy. Whatever ideas he had for these characters at the start will see fruition. If Reylo was meant to be, it'll happen; if not, it won't. I can live with that.

@adamdrivershair

Haha I thought the same about the hair  The return of the prince's hair!

@snufkin wrote:If JJ continues with the celebrity cameos, it means we've ensured a return of Simon Pegg as Unkar Plutt as part of unraveling Rey's Mystery Box. Poor Finn, they're going to back to Jakku! #1 on my wishlist of cameos would be Felicity herself, Keri Russell, who's done cameos/smaller roles for him in other projects and is pretty bad a** herself. Like now I'm imagining that Rey's parents are likely Elizabeth and Phillip Jennings from The Americans. Oh and FYI, Felicity is about a young woman striking out on her own in the world to figure out who she is outside of her family and community. Who goes back and forth between two young men, but ultimately goes with the one named Ben .

Your typical JJ hating fanboys aside, it does suck that they couldn't at least get a woman screenwriter to work with JJ on the script. Like an entire trilogy centered around a young woman and it sounds like other than the film editors (JJ's team), Carrie Fisher as script nurse (her joke) on 2 movies, and KK, the rest of the central creative team are men. While JJ is the clubhouse with Miyazaki and GdT with preferring to write female leads and having a good handle on how young women act/think (not you, Cameron), that's a little cold comfort because it's a little ironic having a trilogy about a young woman busting into and taking over the Old Boy's Club that's still run by the Old Boy's Club. But the time to have hired somebody like Ava (and good money says JJ was pushing for her but Disney overruled him and hired Trevorrow b/c of JW box office) was 2 years ago at this point. She's too busy with her own projects, maybe doesn't want to dive from A Wrinkle in Time to IX, and at this point they need somebody who can get up to speed, and who already knows the cast/crew. So that's a short list of players. Just hope that she gives her input on IX the way she did for TFA.

@snufkin wrote:If JJ continues with the celebrity cameos, it means we've ensured a return of Simon Pegg as Unkar Plutt as part of unraveling Rey's Mystery Box. Poor Finn, they're going to back to Jakku! #1 on my wishlist of cameos would be Felicity herself, Keri Russell, who's done cameos/smaller roles for him in other projects and is pretty bad a** herself. Like now I'm imagining that Rey's parents are likely Elizabeth and Phillip Jennings from The Americans. Oh and FYI, Felicity is about a young woman striking out on her own in the world to figure out who she is outside of her family and community. Who goes back and forth between two young men, but ultimately goes with the one named Ben .

Your typical JJ hating fanboys aside, it does suck that they couldn't at least get a woman screenwriter to work with JJ on the script. Like an entire trilogy centered around a young woman and it sounds like other than the film editors (JJ's team), Carrie Fisher as script nurse (her joke) on 2 movies, and KK, the rest of the central creative team are men. While JJ is the clubhouse with Miyazaki and GdT with preferring to write female leads and having a good handle on how young women act/think (not you, Cameron), that's a little cold comfort because it's a little ironic having a trilogy about a young woman busting into and taking over the Old Boy's Club that's still run by the Old Boy's Club. But the time to have hired somebody like Ava (and good money says JJ was pushing for her but Disney overruled him and hired Trevorrow b/c of JW box office) was 2 years ago at this point. She's too busy with her own projects, maybe doesn't want to dive from A Wrinkle in Time to IX, and at this point they need somebody who can get up to speed, and who already knows the cast/crew. So that's a short list of players. Just hope that she gives her input on IX the way she did for TFA.

@Forsythia wrote:The antis are now claiming that JJ is the "#1 anti Reylo"

@SkyStar wrote:

Haha I thought the same about the hair  The return of the prince's hair!