Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn spoke at Variety's Dealmakers Breakfast and he, naturally, addressed the upcoming Star Wars. Variety's Marc Graser was in attendance and live tweeted the event. According to Horn, Disney is expecting the script for Star Wars Episode VII to be finished next month. More interestingly, however, is that the film has no budget and that Disney is expecting it to cost around $200 million.
Disney expects to get script for Star Wars 7 in January. No budget for movie although studio wouldn't be surprised if it costs $200 million.
— Marc Graser (@marcgraser) December 13, 2013Horn also re-iterated the plan to have a Star Wars film released every year.Disney expects a Star Wars related movie (including spin offs) every year from Lucasfilm. #StarWars
— Marc Graser (@marcgraser) December 13, 2013Having the script be finished in January does line up with the expectation for the film to go in front of cameras in spring 2014. Also a $200 million budget is pretty much par for the course when it comes to block buster movies nowadays (for example, Thor: The Dark World cost $170 million, Iron Man 3 cost $200 million, The Avengers cost $220 million, and Star Trek Into Darkness cost $190 million).