In Vegas, Abrams gives few hints about Star Wars
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Producer and director J.J. Abrams listens during a keynote discussion with Valve president and co-founder Gabe Newell at the D.I.C.E. Summit, Wednesday, Feb 6, 2013, in Las Vegas. A newly announced "Star Wars" sequel was on everyone's mind when Abrams took the stage at the annual video game conference, but he made only a sideways mention of the film he has been hired to direct. -- PHOTO : AP
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A newly announced Star Wars sequel was on everyone's mind when J.J. Abrams took the stage on Wednesday at a Las Vegas video game conference, but he made only a sideways mention of the film he has been hired to direct.
The reference was a throw-away joke from his last franchise reboot.
The director played a scene from his 2009 Star Trek film to illustrate the importance of embroidering films with subtle details, and freeze-framed on a shot of a familiar Star Wars robot peeking from space junk.
"So they're looking at all the debris that's out there, and curiously, it's R2D2," he said, drawing a roar of laughter.
