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"Michael Arndt will write the screenplay for the new Star Wars film, Lucasfilm has confirmed. The writer - who won a &amp;#039;Best Original Screenplay&amp;#039; Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine and was nominated for &amp;#039;Best Adapted Screenplay&amp;#039; for Toy Story 3 in 2010 - was first linked to the project earlier this week.  The official announcement of Arndt&amp;#039;s appointment was made yesterday (November 9) on the franchise&amp;#039;s website. Lucasfilm also revealed that producer Kathleen Kennedy and George Lucas have begun story conferences with the writer as the film enters pre-production. Star Wars: Episode 7, the first film in the franchise to be produced since Disney acquired Lucasfilm, is due to be released in 2015. Watch the Blu-ray trailer for Star Wars: The Complete Saga below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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