J.J. Abrams responds to criticism over TFA being a rip-off of A New Hope

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Guitarguy said:

AZWification said:

I'd rather have a New Hope rip-off than a movie as "amazing" as The Phantom Menace. Besides, Episode VIII won't play it as safe as Episode VII.

 

We don't know that yet :P This is Disney we are talking about here ;) Hope you are right though. And Phantom Menace did suck.

Abrams literally just said the next two would be much different and that they just wanted a similar jumping point.