While they are at it,  get alannis morissett(sp) to play leia.  I saw a video with her in it the other day,  she looks exactly like a 45 year old leia would look.

Sounds like great news to me. This is going to be the best Star Wars made since the Empire Strikes back. They are hitting every cylinder and this project is roaring ahead like a muscle car. Now all they have to do is announce an amazing director and producer.

 Ok re-read the article.  This is the only part I am iffy on.

"I believe it is to get the ball rolling on the subsequent installments mapped out by Lucas”."

Lucas should not be mapping out anything.  He should just let go and let the new crew handle even the smallest of details.  Go away Lucas, thanks for the good times and fun.

Easy, axia! If there is anything Lucas lovers and haters can agree on is that George is excellent at ideas and story plots. Actually, executing them well in the scriptwriting and direction is not his strong suit.

 Yeah, Lucas is a great idea man, but all the best details have come from somebody else.  Example - when Han was being frozen in carbonite, and Leia says, "I love you", the script called for Han to say, "I love you too." I forget if it was the director or the script writer who changed it to the now classic, and much more fitting "I know."  Lucas - great idea man, but others handling the details is a great thing, especially with Lawrence Kasden.

This is excellent news. I have such high hope for this new trilogy!

It was Kirshner who didn't like the "I love you" line, they tried a bunch of different ways. Finally he told Ford to think what Solo would say... magic line.

I was saying get Kasdan. Someone listened

Lawrence Kasdan!!!!!!

Kinetoscope is right.  It was Kirshner that told Ford to think up something and came up with "I know".