Happy 2014 everyone. It’s a new year, and we already have a new Star Wars rumour.

Metalocalypse director Jon Schnepp has claimed to have insider knowledge on Disney’s plans, and says that one of the planned spin-off movies is about Boba Fett.

Schnepp says: “It is. I know. I know for a fact. I will never reveal my source, but it is the one written by Lawrence Kasdan.”

We’ll not know whether he’s telling the truth or not for a while yet, but with Boba Fett being a fan favourite, it’s certainly not an outlandish idea.

In the meantime, Star Wars: Episode VII is set to open in the UK on December 18, 2015.

2013 was a weird year for Steven Spielberg. First of all he closed the door on the much-anticipated (by me, at least) Robopocalypse, saying he doesn’t want to rush such a huge project.

Then he walked away from American Sniper, citing “budgetary issues”.

However, 2014 looks like it might be different, with The Beard getting stuck into a new project that he might try to finish before the end of the year – Montezuma.

Montezuma tells of the clash between Aztec emperor Montezuma II and Conquistador Hernan Cortes during the infiltration into Mexico led by Cortes in 1519.

The project will be told from the perspective of Cortes, with the wonderful Javier Bardem attached to the role.

The script was originally written in 1965 by Dalton Trumbo (Spartacus) as a vehicle for Kirk Douglas, and was apparently a massive 205-page behemoth, but it never went into production.

It has now been reworked by Schindler’s List scribe Steve Zaillian.

Cinematically, it’s a relatively unexplored part of history but it’s a juicy role for Bardem, and provides complex material for the director whose last film was Lincoln.

The long-rumoured new adaptation of Robert Heinlen’s sci-fi novel Starship Troopers is apparently moving ahead at pace. The script is being handled by Thor and X-Men: First Class writer Zack Stentzl. He has said that his version of the story will be “less a satire and more an actual adaptation of the Heinlein novel. An Officer & a Gentleman in power armour.”

The writer previously compared the new version’s tone to Minority Report.

Starship Troopers was politically controversial when it was first published in 1959, and followed a futuristic military unit from training through to combat in a war between mankind and giant alien spider things.

The first version of the film was made in 1997 by Paul Verhoeven, who went in a different direction to the patriotic and pro-military source material, and produced a tongue-in-cheek splatter film that poked fun at fascism.

Starship Troopers marks the third remake in recent years of a Verhoeven sci-fi film, following Total Recall in 2012 and Robocop, in cinemas next month.

Swearing isn’t big or clever, but that hasn’t stopped Martin Scorsese from packing so much bad language into his latest film that it has broken a record.

The Wolf of Wall Street contains 506 instances of the f-word, which is 71 more than the previous non-documentary record holder, Spike Lee’s film Summer of Sam.

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and based on a memoir by a Wall Street trader, the film is in rude health in the swearing stakes, packing in a mighty 2.81 f-words a minute. That’s almost as many as your average WI meeting. Almost.

Alas, The Wolf of Wall Street pales in comparison to the film that tops the f-list, a documentary called... well.... you might be able to guess, which tracks the history of the word, argues for its importance in the war over censorship, and manages an incredible 857 instances of the expletive.

Fffffflipping heck.