The folks at Disney, now the owners of all rights to the Star Wars franchise since the purchase of all Lucasfilm holdings from George Lucas two weeks ago for $4.05 billion, have apparently found their screenwriter who will take the reigns of the SW franchise into the future, for one film at least.
Michael Arndt, who won an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine, has been hired by Disney to write the first instalment of the new trilogy due out in 2015.
Conversely, the brass at Disney are still hunting for their new director that producer Frank Marshall has hinted is close to a conclusion. Plenty of names have been mentioned such as Star Trek director J.J. Abrams, although he has recently ruled himself out of the running. As have Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro and Steven Spielberg.
More Star Wars news has it that an interesting, if not confusing rumour has been mentioned about the possibility of Darth Vader being resurrected for the new trilogy, although I have no idea how they'll pull that off seeing that Vader, armour and all, was burned to a cinder at the end of Return of the Jedi (Episode VI). However, this is the universe of clones running amok.
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