Don’t you see where this J.J. Abrams thing is going?

startrek

2009. J. J. Abrams directs Star Trek, a Reboot of the original “Star Trek”-Franchise.


super8

2011. J. J. Abrams directs Super 8, produced by Steven Spielberg’s company Amblin, which allows Abrams, as he points out in Interviews to “share DNA” of earlier Amblin movies like E. T. – The Extra Terrestial.


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2013. (January) J. J. Abrams is officially confirmed as the director of Star Wars: Episode VII.


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2013. (May) The Abrams-directed Star Trek Into Darkness features a post-credit sequence, in which James Kirk returns to his quarters to find E.T. sitting at his desk. He is pointing a glowing finger at the Captain and says: “Mr. Kirk, you’ve just become part of a bigger universe.”


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2015. Star Trek: Episode VII features a longish subplot about a kid on Tattooine making friends with a gnarly outcast from the galactic senate, who has moved into Ben Kenobi’s old cabin.


spaceavangers

2017. SPACE AVENGERS


Based on an idea by Carsten / images: Paramount Pictures (3), Lucasfilm (1), Disney (1)