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Thursday, January 24, 2013

J. J. Abrams to Direct Star Wars

Sorry. Had to do it.

Posted by Timothy S. Brannan at 4:46 PM

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Labels: movies, sci-fi

2 comments:

John Arendt said...: Nicely done. Made me chuckle!; January 24, 2013 at 5:05 PM
JasperAK said...: What's with the lens flares?

;); January 27, 2013 at 9:16 PM

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