{"id":32316,"date":"2013-01-24T17:59:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/24\/jj-abrams-to-be-the-star-wars-mastermind.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T12:49:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T19:49:29","slug":"jj-abrams-to-be-the-star-wars-mastermind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/24\/jj-abrams-to-be-the-star-wars-mastermind.html","title":{"rendered":"JJ Abrams to be the &quot;Star Wars&quot; mastermind?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not looking for a reboot of the franchise (a la <i>Star Trek)<\/i> &#8230; but I think Abrams could be a good overseer for Disney&#39;s <i>Star Wars<\/i> universe. Indeed, it&#39;s encouraging that they recognize the need for an overarching talent in that role. (h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"103748887870095862080\">Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2013\/01\/disney-gets-star-trek-lost-director-j-j-abrams-to-tackle-star-wars\/'>Report: Star Trek director J.J. Abrams to tackle Star Wars<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAbrams on course to have a hand in every sci-fi franchise we like.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/aPg9dVm7CDW' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not looking for a reboot of the franchise (a la Star Trek) &#8230; but I think Abrams could be a good overseer for Disney&#39;s Star Wars universe. Indeed, it&#39;s encouraging that they recognize the need for an overarching talent in that role. (h\/t +Les Jenkins) Embedded Link Report: Star Trek director J.J. Abrams &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/24\/jj-abrams-to-be-the-star-wars-mastermind.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JJ Abrams to be the &quot;Star Wars&quot; mastermind?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,263,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-disney","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33913,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/squabbling-over-the-goose-that-lays-the-golden-eggs.html","url_meta":{"origin":32316,"position":0},"title":"Squabbling over\u00a0the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-May-13 9:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"Legal wrangling over Star Trek (Paramount owns the rights to the movies, but CBS owns all the TV shows as well as the\u00a0characters, which Paramount must then license) means that J. 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