5. To 3-D Or Not To 3-D?
Although Star Wars is a franchise that practically screams to be rendered in all 3-dimensions, J.J. Abrams has been surprisingly resistant to the charms of the process over the course of his career. And though it's extremely likely that this next installment will ship in 3-D (they're putting out the prequel trilogy in 3-D later this year, don't you know?), it's a generally positive sign that Abrams has shown his distain. According to an interview he did about the new Star Trek film, Abrams "approached the process very cynically" for that particular movie. That's the result of studio pressure, presumably, because he originally wrote off using 3-D for his first Trek movie, calling it "ridiculous."