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"JJ Abrams has hinted that Star Wars Episode VII will go back to the basics of the original trilogy. The director responded to the recent &amp;#039;4 Rules to Make Star Wars Great Again&amp;#039; video posted on YouTube, which insists that the &amp;#039;real&amp;#039; Star Wars is a Western and &amp;quot;dirty, gritty - a second hand world&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;I would say that [the video conveys] a feeling that we share very much,&amp;quot; Abrams told The Times. &amp;quot;I loved how Star Wars had that sense of a world far beyond the borders of what you can see and have been told. It&amp;#039;s one of the things it did so brilliantly. &amp;quot;If you watch the first movie, you don&amp;#039;t actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They&amp;#039;re going to rule by fear - but you don&amp;#039;t know what their end game is. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went.&amp;quot;      He did add that the Star Wars prequels which the video rails against do have a place in the imagination of younger fans. &amp;quot;A lot of kids who saw all the prequels when they were young really do identify with those movies as much as my generation identified with the originals,&amp;quot; he insisted. Disney&amp;#039;s Star Wars Episode VII will open in summer 2015, despite Lucasfilm executives allegedly believing that a 2016 release should be targeted. Gallery - &amp;#039;Star Wars&amp;#039; cast then and now:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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