Het ziet er nogal slecht uit voor Star Wars: Episode VII, want na JJ Abrams heeft ook Guillermo del Toro nee gezegd tegen het project. Dit maakte de regisseur bekend in een interview met The Playlist, want zijn mening is dat iemand die een echte Star Wars geek is de nieuwe films meer recht aan doet.

"We got one phone call to my agent saying, 'Is Guillermo interested?' And basically I have so much stuff already of my own, and I'm pursuing stuff that I'm generating already....It was very flattering, It was just a phone call, it didn't go past that, it was very nice to be asked, but believe it or not, I'm busy enough."

I think the fans deserve somebody that is just going to immerse themselves completely. As a geek, I would have loved to see Brad Bird take it."