SW E7 and it's tie into the overall Canon.

i totally agree with the idea of there being a bunch of false crap out there. i personally don't believe any of the supposed plot leaks i've heard so far. i dont think Driver will be the bad guy, i don't think it's about Inquisitors or super storm troopers or Palpatine (or Plagueis, for that matter) coming back, and i especially don't believe that bit about the hand and lightsaber falling from the sky.

as for JJ and the PT, i think you may be looking into it a little too much. JJ is a professional and he's working with a huge team of people; there's no way they're going to pretend the whole PT didn't exist. i think he was probably trying to say is that the ST will be stylistically and thematically like the OT and NOT like the PT.

 

That's how I interpreted the article too, although I would love if the Sequels purposely went out of their way to go against the Prequels.

 

I think it will reflect more of the OT because it takes place AFTER the OT. If it was to take place prior to Episode I and have the look/feel of the OT it would be odd. Bringing the look of the OT back makes perfect sense but dropping the ST just because a group of fans didn't like them is stupid. That would be like saying, "I didn't like Iron Man 2 so I'm just going to ignore it while watching the Avengers."
I happen to like the PT, not more than the OT but I did like them. While they were very different than the OT they were still "STAR WARS" to me.
If Lucas had hired different actors to portray Anakin or had the directors from Empire or Jedi at the helm would you have liked the movie better?
Well that didn't happen so stop complaining. It's not going to change. Enjoy it for what it is... STAR WARS. </rant>

 

Right. I took JJ's statement as using practical effects the most but CGI when needed, which makes the most sense to me as a fan and a beginner film maker. The fact of the un-edited OT on BluRay would be cool, but I wouldn't buy it... I already have the movies on BluRay.
As for rebooting the ST, it would be a waste of time. Move on to the next story already. It's like the recent Spider-Man reboot and upcoming Fantastic Four reboot, "We already know their orgin stories since they have been told within the last 10 years!"
No need for it.

 

But...but I didn't like Iron Man 2 and I do ignore it while watching the Avengers!

Anakin's performance wasn't the problem, it was the writing. But the directing was definitely a problem and would of made it a lot better, maybe even kinda good, if like Irvin Kershner directed it! The story would of still be stupid, but non-lazy-unoriginal-unemotional-Prequel-Lucas style directing could of negated a lot of the effect.

 

Ignoring Iron Man 2 would result in: Tony and Pepper not knowing Nick Fury, Phil Coulson, Black Widow, or the idea of the Avengers. He would still have the suit from Iron Man 1 and in Iron Man 3, how did Rhodes get a hold of the War Machine armor?
If we ignore the PT we never learn of the "Clone Wars", Yoda training Jedi, Obi-Wan and Anakin fighting along-side eachother and against eachother, Palpatine's rise to power, or Luke & Leia's mother. Sure it did have poor lines and terrible love scenes but it is still a part of the Star Wars story and nescessary.

 

You fought in the Clone Wars?

There you will learn from Yoda, the Jedi master who instructed me.

He was the best star pilot in the galaxy...and he was a good friend.

A young Jedi knight named Darth Vader - who was a pupil of mine, until he turned to evil - helped the Emperor hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights.

Man I can't remember the quotes for this one, but you get the idea.

 

I'm saying it expands on those lines Obi-Wan mysteriously throws around. You can't tell me you never wanted to know about those topics while watching the OT.

 

Leia: She was very beautiful. She died when I was very young. (Padme should have lived and taken Leia to Alderan)
Luke: I have no memory of my mother. (Obi-wan still takes Luke to Tatooine)

Hold on a sec! did Padme fake her death?

 

Right without the PT we think Leia knew her. She probably was referring to Bale Organa's wife.

 

For the record, this is part of what he/she said (it's been all been deleted 5 days after I gathered it all into bullet points on another site but I saved most of the posts):

Abrams has been given to speak about prequels, but in interviews that I've read, he politely just defers elsewhere.

http://collider.com/j-j-abrams-star-trek-star-wars-interview/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...Episode-VII-may-return-to-grittier-roots.html

 

Luke specifically tells her "Tell me about your mother. Your real mother." which was a perfectly good line, in a great, emotional, character-developing scene, but with the Prequels now it doesn't make any sense. Was Princess Leia now just supposed to have been being dumb? Was she remembering pictures of her real mother?

 

I've always used the Force as a cop out for this.

 

My posts were basically saying that you can't ignore the PT if you like them or not.

 

I disagree. I think it is more than possible to make a super awesome Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, without using like characters, plot devices, locations, music, or anything else from the Prequels. You can ignore many of the events that occurred without breaking "canon", like if they were talking about the Emperor, and don't ever call him "Palpatine" like he was called in the Prequels, that's ignoring the Prequels, but also not like directly going against them.

 

I kinda hope it doesn't tie in to existing canon. Maybe a few references. A "Jabba" here and a "Death Star" or a "hey remember when we found out we were siblings? Yeah that was crazy!" I like that kind of thing. But one thing that was great about the OT was how they would throw out references to things nobody has ever heard of, and they arn't explained. For example: The Kessel Run, Spice mines, Boche, Jabba (took three movies to finaly find out who he was), Ord Mantel, "I won her, fair and square!", "No disentigrations", All the Obi-wan and Yoda recounts of the past (some of which we saw play out in Ep. I-III).

So anyway, I think there's no NEED to reference the other trilogies. But there is a need to reference the things that we haven't seen(and maybe never will). Its part of what makes the Galaxy Far Far Away seem big and cool.