Abrams will be directing and Academy Award-winning writer Michael Arndt will write the screenplay.

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Abrams signed and Michael Arndt doing writing duties, the next slate of Star Wars films are moving along toward production.

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Michael Arndt will write the screenplay for Episode VII, according to Disney.

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The first of these, Star Wars: Episode VII, will be scripted by Michael Arndt, the Oscar-winning writer of Toy Story 3 and Little Miss Sunshine.

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It will be scripted by Oscar-winning writer Michael Arndt.

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The writer, Michael Arndt, and the husband-and-wife directing team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, narrowly avoid the family-comedy pitfalls of whimsy and mush, but Arndt has a good ear for domestic irritations and the acting is just tough enough to keep us off balance.

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