Could ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ Be Too Enamored With the Original Movies?

One thing that can’t be said about J.J. Abrams’s Star Wars at this early stage: it’s not reverential enough to the source material. With each new piece of information released about the project, it’s clear that Abrams and his collaborators have the earlier movies – and, most obviously, the original trilogy from the 1970s and ‘80s – in mind as both inspiration and target of aspiration.

In between getting more and more angry with Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD today, I also wrote this for THR about the dangers of nostalgia in making the new Star Wars.