So how does J.J. Abrams really feel about getting the job to “reinvigorate” the greatest saga of all times? He recently sat down with Empire to discuss all things Force related. Look for the full interview in Empire Magazine hitting stands on March 28th!
“I don’t know because we’re just getting started. So it’s a great question that I hope I’ll have a good answer to when I know what the answer is. There are infinitely more questions than answers right now, but to me, they’re not that dissimilar. Though I came at these both from very different places, where they both meet is a place of ‘Ooh, that’s really exciting.’ And even though I was never a Star Trek fan, I felt like there was a version of it that would make me excited, that I would think ‘that’s cool, that feels right, I actually would want to see that.”
“How we were going to get there, what the choices were going to be, who was going to be in it – all of those things I knew would have to be figured out, but it was all based on a foundation of this indescribable, guttural passion for something that could be. It’s a similar feeling that I have with Star Wars. I feel like I can identify a hunger for what I would want to see again and that is an incredibly exciting place to begin a project. The movies, the worlds could not be more different but that feeling that there’s something amazing here is the thing that they share.”
Funny that someone who wasn’t even a Star Trek fan could make a series that is so good, though truth be told the Star Trek films now are more Star Wars like than they used to be!
May the Force be with you!
~CynicNerd
