The latest from the Star Wars franchise, "Star Wars: Episode 7", has reportedly found its screenwriter in Michael Arndt.
Arndt started writing screenplays for movies like "Little Miss Sunshine" in 2006, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The next screenplay he wrote was for "Toy Story 3" in 2010, which won him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Apart from these, he has written for upcoming movies "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and "Oblivion".
Vulture claims that Arndt "has written a 40- to 50-page treatment for the film and is likely to be at least one of the writers when the Disney/Lucasfilm project begins shooting in 2014."
Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo will all be a part of the movie.
"Arndt's 40-something page treatment will soon be crossing the desks of top directors, including Brad Bird, Steven Spielberg (Lucasfilm's co-chair, Kathleen Kennedy's former producing partner), and J.J. Abrams. Whether they'd be interested is unknown ('Star Wars' is a lot of baggage for an established director), but Disney wants to make sure they've at least tried the biggest names."
Arndt has reportedly written a treatment for the next three "Star Wars" movies.
"Arndt was brought on board by LucasFilms [sic] months ago, to put ideas to take the franchise forward together, a source with knowledge of the situation says. ... The result was the 'pretty extensive and detailed treatment for what would be the next three movies, the trilogy,' that Disney CEO Bob Iger referred to when the company's acquisition of LucasFilms was announced on October 30," Deadline reported.
