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Recently, J.J. Abrams<\/strong>‘ name came up on a list of potential directors for the new Star Wars<\/em> sequel, but Abrams has removed himself from that list.<\/p>\n The names included Abrams, Jon Favreau<\/strong> (Iron Man<\/em>) and Colin Trevorrow<\/strong> (Safety Not Guaranteed<\/em>).<\/p>\n “Look, Star Wars<\/em> is one of my favorite movies of all time,” said Abrams. “I frankly feel that \u2013 I almost feel that, in a weird way, the opportunity for whomever it is to direct that movie, it comes with the burden of being that kind of iconic movie and series.<\/p>\n “I was never a big Star Trek<\/em> fan growing up, so for me, working on Star Trek<\/em> didn’t have any of that, you know, almost fatal sacrilege, and so, I am looking forward more then anyone to the next iterations of Star Wars<\/em>, but I believe I will be going as a paying moviegoer!”<\/p>\n Favreau, however, is interested in directing a Star Wars<\/em> sequel. “I think both J.J. and I come from a generation of people who formed our whole creative persona around what we experienced as kids from watching those films, and I have had the good fortune of working with George<\/strong> [Lucas<\/strong>] and around George, and whether it is doing a voice on Clone Wars<\/em>, or being at the Skywalker Ranch mixing Iron Man<\/em> \u2013 so I have been very happy and lucky to just experience the culture that Lucas has created, both in my own life growing up as a kid and professional \u2013 whether it was interviewing him at film festivals on stage, he is just a really wonderful, talented gifted guy who has changed the business so much, so I am just giddy, first and foremost as a fan, to see what happens with it.<\/p>\n “I think there [are] a lot of question marks of how they are going to do it, and who they are going to do it with, and what the story is going to be about; but to say that I am not excited about it is definitely an understatement. We’ll see.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently, J.J. Abrams‘ name came up on a list of potential directors for the new…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2407,2467],"class_list":["post-21215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-abrams","tag-star-wars"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast & Crew","comment_count":"15","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21221,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21215\/revisions\/21221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}