Aren't the sequels meant to focus on Luke's and Leia's kids? As hS and Data have pointed out, Star Wars is already pretty kid-friendly, so my concern is that we'll just end up with yet another "rebellious, spunky kids save the day because the adults are too strict/won't listen/are dumb" story. That's pretty standard Disney fare. {= P

Episode 7: A New Offspring

Episode 8: The Grown-ups Strike Back

Episode 9: Return of the Spawn

~Neshomeh

I'd like to point you to pretty much all of the Marvel movies since Iron Man. Also, John Carter. Also also, Marvel's comics.

It is highly unlikely that they'll do anything with the tone of the movies, since the series is already pretty kid friendly.

Realistically, there is no way that they could handle the property worse than Lucas already did.

Can you imagine what Star Wars would be like with atrociously-accented funny-talking alien characters?

Or, like, I don't know, fuzzy teddy bears killing armoured space-soldiers?

Or, hey, how about magic-wielding men in swooshy robes with, ooh, I know, laser swords!

... admittedly that last is aimed a couple of years higher than the others, but still...

hS & Captain Silly

It begs to be filked.

While it's easy to throw nonsense on Wikipedia, this is on too many news sites to be a hoax.

(Granted, some political blogger in New York was happily spreading lies about Hurricane Sandy's effects on NYC the other day. But he got caught almost immediately.)

...it'll probably be a grutchin or something.

To answer your question, they are calling the new movies (yes you read that correctly, it was plural) Episodes 7, 8 & 9. So, we will now have the Originals, the Prequels, and the Sequels.

-Phobos