Key Highlights:
- Reports indicate that Star Trek director J.J. Abrams will direct Star Wars: Episode VII.
- No video game based on the new Star Wars film has been announced.
- The film eventually launched as The Force Awakens without a direct game adaptation released alongside it.
Reports indicate that J.J. Abrams will direct Star Wars: Episode VII, raising the possibility that Disney could also commission a video game based on the new film.
Abrams is best known in science fiction for directing 2009’s Star Trek and its forthcoming sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness. Disney and Lucasfilm have not yet officially confirmed his Star Wars appointment, although an announcement is expected shortly.
No developer, publisher or platform has been connected to an Episode VII game. Any suggestion that the film will receive a video game adaptation therefore remains speculation.
Three months later, Disney granted EA exclusive rights to develop and publish core Star Wars games, although the agreement did not confirm a dedicated Episode VII adaptation.
Major film releases have frequently received licensed games, while Star Wars has already produced series including Battlefront and Lego Star Wars. That history makes another game plausible, but it does not confirm that Disney has approved an Episode VII project.
Disney confirmed J.J. Abrams as the director of Star Wars: Episode VII on 25 January 2013, one day after the initial reports. The film was later titled Star Wars: The Force Awakens and opened in cinemas in December 2015.
The Force Awakens did not receive a conventional video game adaptation alongside its cinema release. EA launched Star Wars Battlefront in November 2015, but the game focused primarily on locations and characters from the original trilogy rather than retelling Episode VII.
A direct adaptation eventually arrived as Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens in June 2016. Traveller’s Tales developed the game around the film’s story and added material connecting Return of the Jedi with The Force Awakens.
