IMAX CEO says that the company is in talks with director and producer J.J. Abrams over shooting part of "Star Wars: Episode VII" in IMAX.

The Force is larger than you might have expected in this one. During a speech at Goldman Sachs' annual Communacopia Conference, IMAX chief executive officer Richard Gelfond dropped the surprising tidbit that the next Star Wars movie may be filmed, in part, in IMAX format.

Talking about the increase in movies being shot in IMAX format (and screen ratio), Gelfond said "We are talking to J.J. Abrams [just] now about the next Star Wars being used with partly IMAX cameras." (Other movies being shot in IMAX, he added, included Christopher Nolan's Interstellar and Michael Bay's Transformers: Age of Extinction).

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