up almost two weeks on from the initial announcement from Disney.  It doesn't help that 99% of the digital ink being spilled is being dropped on pure nonsense: did we really need to be told that Quentin Tarantino wasn't interested in directing Star Wars Episode 7 ? The whole thing peaked quite early, on November 1 st in fact, with what will no doubt come to be referred to by future generations of humans as the opus of the period. With the headline -- Let's Speculate Wildly: Are Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof Already Working on 'Star Wars VII'? [UPDATE: No.] the whole sorry affair managed to be summed up. The update was added within the hour of the original piece going live, and while I'm not nave enough to believe that Hollywood aren't adverse to spreading the odd piece of misinformation, surely common journalistic decency would see such an article pass through some kind of authority for clarification before any editor clicked "publish", not least given how soon Disney et al were to clarify the misreporting in the article in question. Holding back for one hour could have saved a lot of red faces. Ultimately I can't help but feel a little bit of sympathy for the people that are writing this stuff. It's not like we're lacking in things to write about in the world of film. One of the worst offenders Brazenly rebuked a comment concerning his lack of a grasp of the US political system with