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J.J. Abrams apologizes for overusing lens flare: ‘I know it’s too much’

J.J. Abrams is proud of the last two Star Trek films, Super 8, or Mission: Impossible III — all of which he directed. However, he is sorry for the rampant lens flares streaking across the screen in each of those films. In an interview with Crave Online, the man who will helm Star Wars: Episode VII confessed that there were so many lens flares in early cuts of Star Trek Into Darkness that he hired special effects house Industrial Light & Magic to erase some of his signature embellishments from the film.