Ghostwriter - 2026 film directed by JJ Abrams - Will Michael Giacchino score it?

[Jay 44,244]

JJ Abrams is finally directing another film.

 

It will star Jenna Ortega and Glen Powell, bu its title and premise are not known yet

 

https://deadline.com/2024/05/j-j-abrams-glen-powell-1235909569/

https://deadline.com/2024/08/jenna-ortega-glen-powell-jj-abrams-1236030566/

 

Will he reunite with Giacchino for the first time in 11 years?

 

Michael Giacchino scored basically everything JJ Abrams directed from 2001 through 2013:

• Alias episodes (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005)
• LOST pilot episode (2004)
• Mission: Impossible 3 (2006)
• Star Trek (2009)
• Undercovers pilot episode (2010)
• Super 8 (2011)
• Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

Since 2013, the only films Abrams has directed are two Star Wars films scored by John Williams.

[Jay 44,244]

Emma Mackey to Star Opposite Glen Powell in J.J. Abrams’ Mystery Movie

[Davis 3,953]

Who is JJ Abram? 

[Bilbo 4,119]

At this point I wouldn’t be shocked if JJ talked about a movie but kept the mystery box so tight he never let anyone see it. 
 

based on his output thus far, it would be for the best. 

[Davis 3,953]

On 12/8/2024 at 11:33 PM, Jay said:

JJ Abrams is finally directing another film.

 

Too soon.

[Nick1Ø66 7,424]

Sooner than you think. It's clearly the already-filmed Episode X.

 

Put the pieces together people. We know this.

[Davis 3,953]

It's only been 5 years, I still haven't forgiven him for Episode IX. And VII. 

[Pieter Boelen 1,031]

Mystery films are the guy's forte.

He loooves his mystery boxes. 

 

This had better be the REAL Star Wars Episode 9.

The previous version he did doesn't... doesn't count.

[Naïve Old Fart 12,248]

The real mystery is how Abrams has been allowed to go anywhere near a movie camera.

[Holko 11,723]

10 hours ago, Pieter Boelen said:

Mystery films are the guy's forte.

He loooves his mystery boxes. 

Does not compute. Mystery movies have resolutions. Mystery boxes, by design, don't.

[Davis 3,953]

3 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

The real mystery is how Abrams has been allowed to go anywhere near a movie camera.

Or John Williams.

[FBC Director 10,311]

They're finally letting him out of witness protection?

[Pieter Boelen 1,031]

6 hours ago, Holko said:

Does not compute. Mystery movies have resolutions. Mystery boxes, by design, don't.

Fair point. 

I guess in a single mystery movie, the idea is that the mystery gets resolved before the end. 

Oh dear, JJ will NOT like that. 

He just wants to set up intrigue and then figure out some half assed explanation later (if anything).

[Stark 784]

I’ve missed JJ since he entered Star Wars purgatory for a decade

[Jay 44,244]

I quite enjoy all the pre-TFA JJ-directed films.  Sure, often the scripts are mediocre to really bad, however, the other aspects are all really good IMO.  Great casting, special effects, pacing, etc.  Hopefully this new film has a script that's actually good.

[Davis 3,953]

Let’s not forget that before he ruined Star Wars, “Lens Flare” Abrams ruined Star Trek. 

[Bilbo 4,119]

The 2009 film was quite good. Into Darkness is up there with Rise of Skywalker. 

[FBC Director 10,311]

Those movies all sucked

[GerateWohl 6,233]

Will the movie be placed in the Cloverfield universe?

Maybe it concludes all Cloverfield films in one big finale. This could be the Rise of Skywalker of the Cloverfield franchise!

[Jurassic Shark 15,645]

Is it Star Wars?

[GerateWohl 6,233]

You don't know.  Even while watching the movie. That's the mystery. 

[Davis 3,953]

3 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

You don't know.  Even while watching the movie. That's the mystery. 

[Bilbo 4,119]

2 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Is it Star Wars?

I honestly think Disney are dumb enough to bring him back again! 
 

 

[Jurassic Shark 15,645]

4 minutes ago, Bilbo said:

I honestly think Disney are dumb enough to bring him back again! 
 

 

 

He could remake The Last Jedi for the trilogy to make sense.

[Davis 3,953]

Not even George Lucas could make the sequel trilogy make sense. 

[Nick1Ø66 7,424]

3 hours ago, Davis said:

Not even George Lucas could make the sequel trilogy make sense. 

 

There is only one who can.

 

You know of who I speak.

[mstrox 7,286]

Sure, but he’s busy with Knives Out sequels right now. 

[Xander Harris 8,641]

5 hours ago, Davis said:

Not even George Lucas could make the sequel trilogy make sense. 

 

George Lucas is better than everyone

[Mr. Hooper 7,205]

6 hours ago, Bilbo said:

I honestly think Disney are dumb enough to bring him back again!

It seems as though they're betting the moisture farm on another Rey-led trilogy, so sure, why not. lol

 

2 hours ago, Nick1Ø66 said:

There is only one who can.

 

You know of who I speak.

Yes. "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named."

[Jurassic Shark 15,645]

10 hours ago, Davis said:

Not even George Lucas could make the sequel trilogy make sense. 

 

It's a reflection of life itself. 

[Davis 3,953]

It’s like a poem. It rhymes.

[Pieter Boelen 1,031]

On 21/11/2024 at 5:37 PM, Bilbo said:

The 2009 film was quite good. Into Darkness is up there with Rise of Skywalker. 

Pretty much. 

Into Darkness has NOTHING to do with Star Trek. 

I actually prefer the third movie in the series. 

That's TWO series where JJ's final entries were EXCEPTIONALLY unfitting.

 

On 21/11/2024 at 9:22 PM, Jurassic Shark said:

 

He could remake The Last Jedi for the trilogy to make sense.

It made a ton more sense than "ep 9" does. 

I just wished we had gotten an actual sequel to TLJ.

I was actually intrigued about what would come after! 

And I still am. 

Because that business in TRoS doesn't... doesn't count.

 

On 22/11/2024 at 3:47 AM, mstrox said:

Sure, but he’s busy with Knives Out sequels right now. 

Hopefully one day...

 

On 21/11/2024 at 10:19 PM, Davis said:

Not even George Lucas could make the sequel trilogy make sense. 

The "Duel of the Fates" alternate script made a ton more sense to me. 

Felt more like a sequel to BOTH prior movies. 

Oddly, it manages to acknowledge TLJ properly AND make better use of TFA's mystery Knights of Ren too.

Check out the fan comic adaptation!

[Jurassic Shark 15,645]

1 hour ago, Pieter Boelen said:

Because that business in TRoS doesn't... doesn't count.

 

 

Haven't seen it. Is it good?

 

1 hour ago, Pieter Boelen said:

The "Duel of the Fates" alternate script made a ton more sense to me. 

 

Who wrote this script?

[The Score Cleaner 8,808]

22 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

Haven't seen it. Is it good?

 

 

Who wrote this script?

Colin Treverrow I thought?

[Jay 44,244]

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[The Score Cleaner 8,808]

3 minutes ago, Jay said:

 

JJ Abrams did not write or direct Star Trek Beyond.  It was written by Simon Pegg & Doug Jung and directed by Justin Lin.

He was talking about Into Darkness.

 

It was his personal final entry in that trilogy.

[Jay 44,244]

Oops. I read wrong.  My mistake.

[mrbellamy 7,719]

Still really like Force Awakens, it's pretty easily my favorite of all his movies. Really enjoyed Star Trek 09 too but only saw it the one time. I was pretty indifferent to M:I III and Super 8, and of course Into Darkness and Rise of Skywalker are embarrassing. Even considering the two that I like, though, I have pretty much written him off as a hack like everyone else but I will give this a chance. I really felt like he was getting somewhere in his direction of TFA and I'm hoping TROS was a regression from a guy cracking under pressure. 

 

Obviously this will be scored by Michael Giacchino. 

[Pieter Boelen 1,031]

21 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

Haven't seen it. Is it good?

TRoS must be avoided at all costs. 

 

21 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Who wrote this script?

Indeed Colin Trevorrow or whatever scriptwriter he was working with. 

As far as I can tell, it is genuine and really was meant to be episode 9.

Before LucasFilm panic ensued.

 

19 hours ago, mrbellamy said:

Still really like Force Awakens, it's pretty easily my favorite of all his movies. Really enjoyed Star Trek 09 too but only saw it the one time. I was pretty indifferent to M:I III and Super 8, and of course Into Darkness and Rise of Skywalker are embarrassing. Even considering the two that I like, though, I have pretty much written him off as a hack like everyone else but I will give this a chance. I really felt like he was getting somewhere in his direction of TFA and I'm hoping TROS was a regression from a guy cracking under pressure. 

 

Obviously this will be scored by Michael Giacchino. 

I can accept TFA as a decent start to the ST.

Personally I would've preferred something more based on the New Republic and with our classic heroes actually happy and together, but I can understand why they made the choices that they made.

The big Reset Button of Evil was pretty darn dumb, but I like the story in general and the characters, music and cast were pretty great. 

 

Then TLJ came around and actually took things in a most intriguing direction, making me look forward so much what would come next. 

Anything could happen! Especially NEW stories NOT seen before. 

Insert the fake "ep 9" which backtracked everything and really turned things towards the most offensively lame I've ever had the misfortune to witness.

 

We could've had a story with our primary antagonist NOT getting redeemed.

Now THAT would've been an ACTUAL twist.

 

Or a story about those war profiteers set up in Canto Bight.

That suggested a far more interesting angle than a simple black and white situation.

Far more true to reality, but I guess too thought-provoking and controversial. 

Bloody bugger!

[Davis 3,953]

19 hours ago, mrbellamy said:

Still really like Force Awakens

It's basically a remake of A New Hope, only much worse. And Han Solo gets killed by his own son, which is not only stupid, but pathetic and wrong. And this was directed by a man who grew up loving Star Wars.

[Pieter Boelen 1,031]

1 hour ago, Davis said:

It's basically a remake of A New Hope, only much worse. And Han Solo gets killed by his own son, which is not only stupid, but pathetic and wrong. And this was directed by a man who grew up loving Star Wars.

Han Solo was never going to survive. 

Harrison Ford had been insisting on that since RotJ.

 

Yeah, I don't like that either.

[a good little monkey 74]

Really looking forward to seeing what JJ can do when given the time to really polish a script. Every movie of his since Super 8 has been a rush job to reach a release date, hopefully with the time the time he's taken between films that won't be as much of an issue this time. 

 

Also hope he gets Michael Giacchino back in the saddle, I think his work with JJ is some of his best.

[Davis 3,953]

But I'm sure Lucas didn't want to have him stabbed and thrown into the deep like a piece of garbage. 

And Harrison Ford didn't write or direct Star Wars. Lucas didn't want Han killed in RotJ. He could have killed him off, but he didn't. And certainly not like how he died in TFA.

4 minutes ago, Pieter Boelen said:

Han Solo was never going to survive. 

Harrison Ford had been insisting on that since RotJ.

 

Yeah, I don't like that either.

 

[Bilbo 4,119]

1 hour ago, Pieter Boelen said:

 

Or a story about those war profiteers set up in Canto Bight.

I don’t blame JJ for not doing anything with this since it was pretty half formed by RJ as it was. 
 

The Luke, Rey, and Kylo stuff in TLJ was brilliant. Everything else was… half thought out and reeked of “I have to give these less interesting characters something to do”. It also rowed back on Finn’s character from the first film and bringing Phasma back was lame and lazy… but then again, as I said, have thought ideas for the boring characters. 

[Pieter Boelen 1,031]

5 hours ago, Bilbo said:

I don’t blame JJ for not doing anything with this since it was pretty half formed by RJ as it was. 

And yet he went as far as having that double crossing good for nothing code breaker named D.J. for Don't Join. 

I HATE how that bastard just got away scot free with his betrayal and I really wanted his existence to have a bigger meaning. 

It didn't happen in the end. 

But I want to believe that's because "ep 9" failed to follow up on it. 

I want to believe there was actually a proper point and intriguing thought hiding in there for real. 

 

5 hours ago, Davis said:

But I'm sure Lucas didn't want to have him stabbed and thrown into the deep like a piece of garbage. 

And Harrison Ford didn't write or direct Star Wars. Lucas didn't want Han killed in RotJ. He could have killed him off, but he didn't. And certainly not like how he died in TFA.

 

As I said, I didn't like it either. 

When I heard the music for that scene on the CD, I knew what was going to happen. 

When the scene in the movie started to happen, my blood turned to ice. 

Han deserved so much better. 

He was a good man. 

 

5 hours ago, Bilbo said:

It also rowed back on Finn’s character from the first film and bringing Phasma back was lame and lazy… but then again, as I said, have thought ideas for the boring characters. 

The Finn bit I can accept. 

In the first movie, he learned not to run. 

But he still had to learn to fight FOR something. 

That part was left for TLJ to fill in. 

 

Bringing Phasma back just to kill her again struck me as quite pointless though. 

Especially since there's a whole novel to give her a thorough backstory. 

(That I have yet to read.)

But all things considered, that character was a waste of coolness not just in TLJ, but in TFA as well. 

She might as well not have been there at all. 

I had so hoped for a bit more depth there on the actual screen.

[The Score Cleaner 8,808]

2 minutes ago, Pieter Boelen said:

 

The Finn bit I can accept. 

In the first movie, he learned not to run. 

But he still had to learn to fight FOR something. 

That part was left for TLJ to fill in. 

 

 

Right, prior to that, he was just Rey's loyal puppy dog, following her around and such. It's in the novelization too.

[Bayesian 1,560]

15 hours ago, Pieter Boelen said:

TRoS must be avoided at all costs. 

 

Indeed Colin Trevorrow or whatever scriptwriter he was working with. 

As far as I can tell, it is genuine and really was meant to be episode 9.

Before LucasFilm panic ensued.

 

I can accept TFA as a decent start to the ST.

Personally I would've preferred something more based on the New Republic and with our classic heroes actually happy and together, but I can understand why they made the choices that they made.

The big Reset Button of Evil was pretty darn dumb, but I like the story in general and the characters, music and cast were pretty great. 

 

Then TLJ came around and actually took things in a most intriguing direction, making me look forward so much what would come next. 

Anything could happen! Especially NEW stories NOT seen before. 

Insert the fake "ep 9" which backtracked everything and really turned things towards the most offensively lame I've ever had the misfortune to witness.

 

We could've had a story with our primary antagonist NOT getting redeemed.

Now THAT would've been an ACTUAL twist.

 

Or a story about those war profiteers set up in Canto Bight.

That suggested a far more interesting angle than a simple black and white situation.

Far more true to reality, but I guess too thought-provoking and controversial. 

Bloody bugger!

TROS did give us a great version of Rey’s theme when she was running the obstacle course. And there’s babu frick. And, of course, the Oma Tres cameo moment. There’s a solid three or four minutes of watchable movie there between the three.

[Davis 3,953]

33 minutes ago, Bayesian said:

the Oma Tres cameo

John Williams already had a cameo in Return of the Jedi.

 

[Pieter Boelen 1,031]

15 hours ago, Bayesian said:

TROS did give us a great version of Rey’s theme when she was running the obstacle course. And there’s babu frick. And, of course, the Oma Tres cameo moment. There’s a solid three or four minutes of watchable movie there between the three.

Oh, and the Emperor's Theme action version early on is pretty darn cool.

Quite silly that the best music that is there wasn't actually on the album. 

The album really left so little impression on me. 

 

(The Dial of Destiny OST didn't do much better. Though I do like that film, unlike that atrocity masquerading as "ep 9".)

[Jay 44,244]

This filmed in Providence, RI back in August, and I was tempted to try to visit the set because I'm pretty familiar with the area since I used to live outside Providence.  I never made it, but I'm looking forward to seeing recognizable locations when it comes out!

 

BTW, the film's title has been revealed to be "Ghostwriter", so I've updated the thread title