As promised from the very beginning, Star Wars: Episode VII will be arriving in 2015, landing in theaters that summer. From there, they will release a brand new film every single summer, alternating between the new trilogy and the solo spinoff films we learned about months ago. It's going to be a crazy season for Disney that year with Star Wars and The Avengers 2 battling one another for box office dollars, but the Mouse House is smart enough to give them a wide berth from one another.
Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher are all expected back for 'Episode VII', which J.J. Abrams is developing now with screenwriter Michael Arndt. Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg have been tapped for the spinoffs, which may or may not follow a young Han Solo, Boba Fett, and Yoda.
Personally, I think Disney is going to run Star Wars right into the ground with a move like this, and the novelty of the franchise will be killed. It should be special when a new film comes out, not a perfunctory thing like Paranormal Activity on Halloween.
If this is the approach Disney is going with, then it's likely that Kinberg and Kasdan have been working on scripts for quite some time. Whatever those stories may entail is anybody's guess, but Patton Oswalt has a pretty good idea for one of them. In an outtake from Parks & Recreation, Oswalt goes on a hilarious rant about the plot for 'Episode VII'. It starts off fairly lucid and reasoned, but veers into sheer lunacy as he tosses in ideas for a Marvel crossover involving characters that have no business intermingling. It's more than eight minutes long but definitely worth the investment.
