Whoa! Zack Snyder Directing ‘Star Wars’ Samurai Style Jedi Spin-Off?

Back in November, Watchmen and 300 director Zack Snyder was one of the directors who took himself out of the running to direct Star Wars: Episode VII after news of a new trilogy was announced following Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm. However, Vulture now has word that the filmmaker will be working on a Star Wars film after all. The Man of Steel director isn’t working on a film in the new trilogy, but rather on a spin-off described as a “Jedi epic loosely based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic Seven Samurai, with the ronin and katana being replaced by the Force-wielding knights and their iconic lightsabers.” What?! Okay, now that I’ve recovered from passing out, this sounds unbelievable. Could this be one of the films that Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg were supposedly hired to write in late November? Part of me wonders if the pinnacle episodes of the new trilogy …