J.J. Abrams will direct Star Wars Episode 7!

Big news for Star Wars fans! It is being reported that  J.J. Abrams has been selected to direct the next installment of the Star Wars franchise, Star Wars Episode VII!  According to Deadline's source, “It’s done deal with J.J.”.

This is very big news considering just a year ago Abrams had stated that he did not want the job. However, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy led the mission to recruit Abrams to direct Episode VII (which has a tentative release date for 2015) and must have said all the right things. Abrams will direct from a script written by Michael Arndt.

What do you think about this directing announcement? Does anyone else think it's rather interesting that Abrams will now be in control of both Star Wars and Star Trek?

Source: Deadline