Godzilla Guy to Direct Star Wars Spinoff Movie

Godzilla director Gareth Edwards will direct the first Star Wars spinoff movie, Lucasfilm announced Thursday — without revealing the first detail on what the movie is about

The untitled Star Wars movie got a scriptwriter and a release date, too. You'll be seeing it everywhere on December 16, 2016 — in other words, a mere 363 days after the release of Star Wars Episode VII

Edwards, still in his 30s, burst on to the scene with a 2010 feature called Monsters, which cost just $500,000 and led Edwards directly to the big-budget Godzilla gig. In 2011, he told the London Observer that "Star Wars is definitely the reason that I wanted to become a filmmaker." Read more...