Many are familiar with Zack Snyder as the director for 300 and The Watchmen, and he is also bringing the new Superman film, Man of Steel.
Well we've learned that he's working on a huge new project.
A source at Lucasfilms tells us why Snyder so quickly said he wouldn't do Star Wars Episode VII.
It seems Snyder is running a completely different little project for Disney and Lucasfilms.
Snyder is going to be the director for an entirely separate Star Wars film, yes one not based on the trilogies.
He will be loosely remaking Akira Kurosawa's 1954 classic Seven Samurai, which was already remade in 1960 as The Magnificent Seven.
It's unclear exactly when it will be set, but it's supposed to be sometime after Episode VI.
This version does not have a name yet, but it will only rekindle all the discussions, amongst Star Wars fans, who now have at least four movies to look forward to.
Rebel forces in Mali went around national and French troops, on Monday.
In doing so they took the key town of Diabaly, in an hard fought battle with national forces.
French troops joined the war, on Friday, and had forced the rebels main push back.
However this flanking maneuver puts the Al Qaeda supported rebels closer yet to the capital of Bamako, a goal which France has pledged to keep from happening.
It also shows that the war will not be won, simply by the French showing up.
Five hundred and fifty French troops are already on the ground, and fighters and helicopters are being used to strike the rebels, from the air.
On Sunday, Britain and the US had announced they would immediately begin supporting France's efforts, the US with drones and intelligence, and the UK with transport planes.
Other European Union and African countries have pledged help, but they have not said when.
Burkina Faso, which lies to the south of Mali, set up military roadblocks along it's border to keep rebel forces out, while Mauritania, to the west, called up all troops as it went on high alert.
In a public statement he said: "I am deeply grateful for the wonderful doctors and nurses at The
Methodist Hospital who took such good care of me. Let me add just how touched we were by
the many get well messages we received from our friends and fellow
Americans. Your prayers and good wishes helped more than you know, and
as I head home my only concern is that I will not be able to thank each
of you for your kind words."
On November 7, the former President was admitted to Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, due to bronchitis.
He was released, on November 19, only to be readmitted, November 23, when his cough flared back up.
According to a spokesman, he had several setbacks, including a high fever, which required a move to the ICU, on December 23.
After a stay there through New Years he was allowed back to regular care.
At eighty-eight he is the oldest living former President of the United States.
While preparing to write today, I happened to catch a video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In the video, he is seen playing in the snow with his family.
If you can ignore the security, all around, it looks like any family would on a rare snow, in Israel.
After I was done with my other writing, I randomly decided to go search pictures of snow in Israel, and talk about the joy Israelis were showing for the snow.
Most of the pictures show people building snowmen, like above, or are of the Wailing Wall and other landmarks, in the snow.
Then I happened upon this picture.
It shows a Palestinian man, in front of a mosque, with what he created with the snow.
Instead of joy and snowmen, you see that he made a missile, with the snow.
To add to it he put M75 on it.
For those unaware, M75 missiles were debuted in the latest fighting between Hamas and Israel.
M75 missiles are capable of striking Jerusalem, from the Gaza Strip.
Think that's one isolated incident?
Here's another picture of Palestinians in the snow.
A group of Palestinians made a tank, with snow.
They built it upon the trailer of a truck.
After they finished, they paraded it through the streets of Gaza.
These picture does so much to capture why there is not peace in the Middle East.
Israelis would gladly live in peace, they've even repeatedly offered their own lands, to gain it.
However, for Palestinians there can be no peace, as long as Israel exists.
They base their entire lives upon the death and destruction of their neighbors, even raising their children to have no other thought process.
Not even the magic of a rare snow can shake them from their mindset of war, death, and destruction.
For those that still want to see some of that magic, here's the video of Netanyahu:
Twenty thousand marched through Moscow, on Sunday.
They marched to show their outrage against Russian politicians for voting through a ban on American adoptions.
Other cities saw smaller protests, with only St. Petersburg's gathering more than a thousand.
It is but another sign of the widespread discontent for the Russian government.
Protest organizers are trying to use the public's anger to remind them that the current Russian government may have bought it's seats, rather than being duly elected.
The Kremlin used the protests to continue painting the opposition as anti Russian and being paid by the US.
