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

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She agreed to write the screenplay and it was to mark the beginning of a fruitful partnership.

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

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Kay Cannon, who penned "Pitch Perfect, " will write the screenplay for the sequel, but no other cast or crew have been revealed as of yet.

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All I can hope is that Sorkin, if he decides to write the Jobs screenplay, redeems himself this time.

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Like many writers, I once dreamed of writing the great American novel but gave that up in an attempt to write the great American screenplay.

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In the late 1950s he began to write under his own name again, working on the screenplay to Ben Hur, among other films.

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