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J.J. Abrams hid a batmobile on the new Millennium Falcon

J.J. Abrams battles Zach Snyder on Twitter: Everybody wins. 

 

Eric Geller

Internet Culture

Posted on Sep 18, 2014   Updated on May 30, 2021, 1:54 pm CDT

Star WarsEpisode VII director J.J. Abrams just dropped the mic in his long-running Twitter battle with Batman v Superman director Zack Snyder. In response to the latest salvo from Snyder, Abrams tweeted a 30-second video that has Star Wars fans practically salivating.

The video gives fans their first official look at Episode VII‘s Millennium Falcon—albeit with a slight modification to its underside that’s straight out of Gotham.

This is a much better view of the Falcon, Han Solo’s iconic ship from the original trilogy, than the last glimpse. That happened last week, when a drone spied the half-built YT-1300 light freighter and several X-wing starfighters sitting on a former British airbase.

Since early August, Snyder and Abrams have been going at it, tweeting images that combine the mega-franchises of Star Wars and Batman. Here are the previous tweets in their duel.

#SuperJedi pic.twitter.com/PyNbELK8UZ

— ZackSnyder (@ZackSnyder) July 24, 2014

BATMAN & R2BIN @bad_robot pic.twitter.com/yWPmGPKJ3f

— ZackSnyder (@ZackSnyder) August 2, 2014

THE C3PED CRUSADER @ZackSnyder pic.twitter.com/wh0m6GF15p

— Bad Robot (@bad_robot) August 8, 2014

Case closed. pic.twitter.com/fVyENoksFp

— ZackSnyder (@ZackSnyder) September 13, 2014

HUNKA JUNK. @ZackSnyder #STARWARSvBATMANvSUPERMAN https://t.co/8AtCXT1HWS

— Bad Robot (@bad_robot) September 18, 2014

Screengrab via BAD ROBOT PRODUCTIONS/YouTube

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*First Published: Sep 18, 2014, 10:05 am CDT