No way they'll do multiple films per year, but I'm sure they're going to try and do at least one every couple of years or so.

And I wish they wouldn't. It's going to totally blow out the franchise. I'm all for the final trilogy, but having random SW movies pop up beyond that, to me, is totally unnecessary.

Why not Wes Anderson?

This would be a great thread to start collecting/posting links to interesting info out on the interwebz if you guys find them. I know there's a lot of stuff out there right now.

Oh man, I didn't even think about the John Williams thing. I really hope he's willing and able to work on the new films... but that might not be possible. And that's no good.

You guys keep mentioning the Trek reboot as a good guideline, but I think a reboot would be a worst case scenario for me. I'm pretty certain that's NOT what their plan is as well, considering they're referring to the new movies as 7, 8, and 9, meaning following up the OT. I would imagine that also means it's going to follow a similar length of time between the PT and OT; otherwise, why refer to them as episodes 7-9? Why not just call them new SW movies?

I think we're almost definitely going to get a new storyline (not the Zahn trilogy, unfortunately) about 20-30 years post ROTJ with a new core cast that is balanced out with the OT actors. I don't think that's a bad thing, though it certainly could go there. I just don't see a reboot situation - calling that eps. 7-9 would make no sense at all.

I'm seeing almost all of my casual fan friends freaking out about this, calling this yet another instance of Lucas raping our childhoods, etc. I think it's a lot of once bitten, twice shy reactions, which I don't blame anyone for. I'm all for wait-and-see on this, obviously. It's pretty weird getting flashbacks to 1996-7 when I first heard about the PT getting made. We always heard another trilogy was supposed to happen, but I don't think I ever really believed it.

But what if ends up being good? 

To me it's no risk, all reward.

In a way, yes, but also no. I still feel the same way about the original movies, but the brand as a whole feels SO much more watered down to me in part due to the prequels, cartoons, whatever else, and the name as a whole doesn't mean as much to me as it once did. I'm sure we're going to get some movies that will be a lot of fun to watch, and while it's enormously unlikely they'll ever match up to the original three, they'll be worth seeing, just because.

Maybe that's what makes is serious?

Agreed...and like I Am Sith and the McJordan in MN we had the Cheddar Melt burger w/ two cheeses and a chocolate sundae w/ choc syrup called the Puck Pack after Kibry

Good ol' Kibry. The Tiwns haven't been the same since he retired.