‘Empire Strikes Back’ & ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Writers Taking on ‘Star Wars’

It’s still hard to believe that this is all really happening. While we’re still waiting to hear who will direct Star Wars: Episode VII (Brad Bird is the most recent name out of the running), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Toy Story 3 writer Michael Arndt has already turned in a 40-50 page treatment for the whole new trilogy and is supposed to write Episode VII on his own. Now we have word on who will script Episode VIII and Episode IX. Heat Vision has word Empire Strikes Back writer Lawrence Kasdan and Sherlock Holmes writer Simon Kinberg will write the other two sequels, but it’s not clear who will write which one. Kasdan is a fine choice as he wrote both Empire Strikes Back (the best Star Wars film in my opinion) and Return of the Jedi, not to mention the story for the Shadows of the Empire video …