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Amazing news for all Star Wars fans out there – new films in the franchise will be released every year starting in 2015!

Disney, which acquired the rights to the property last year, announced the exciting plans on Wednesday (April 17) during its panel at 2013 CinemaCon.

The first film to be released will be J.J. Abrams‘ Star Wars: Episode VII. The next film will be a spinoff and then each alternating year will bring additional numeral and spinoff flicks.

No word yet on which characters the spinoff films will be based on, but Entertainment Weekly has speculated that they could be about a young Han Solo or even Boba Fett.

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Carrie Fisher is set to reprise her famous role as Princess Leia Organa in the upcoming flick Star Wars Episode VII!

The 56-year-old actress confirmed the news and shared, “She [Princess Leia]’s in an intergalactic old folks’ home [laughs]. I just think she would be just like she was before, only slower and less inclined to be up for the big battle.”

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It has also been rumored that Harrison Ford would be reprising his role as Han Solo in the J.J Abrams-directed film.

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Harrison Ford, his wife Calista Flockhart, and their son Liam pose for a photo while attending the famous Carnival Parade on Saturday (February 16) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The 70-year-old actor and 48-year-old actress arrived in Rio with Liam, 12, earlier that day.

Rumors have been swirling for the past couple days that Harrison has signed a deal to appear in the highly anticipated film Star Wars: Episode VII!

If the rumors are true, Harrison will be reprising his role as Han Solo in the new addition to the franchise.

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J.J. Abrams is in talks to direct the next Star Wars movie, according to THR!

Sources have reportedly confirmed that J.J. and execs are nearing a deal to make it official.

J.J. was not the only director to be considered! Supposedly, Ben Affleck was in contention as well.

Back in November, it was announced that Star Wars helmer George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney for $4.05 billion – a deal that allowed for the making of more films.

J.J. also directed films in the popular Star Trek series.

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