With just over a month to go until the film’s December 18 release in the USA, the notoriously secretive director J.J. Abrams seems content to dole out more teasers than usual. This week the director J.J. Abrams revealed a major change in the upcoming film.
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We also see Rey and BB-8 enter a Resistance control room, with General “Princess” Leia (Carrie Fisher) from behind, Solo, C-3PO (and his new red arm), and a Monday Calamari who might be Admiral Ackbar.
That’s to be expected, given how long Leia’s fight has gone on, but despite the desperate situation, Fisher has a simple message for fans of the character wondering what to take away from her struggle now, almost four decades after she first appeared.
That image of Nyong’o with the motion-capture dots was a dead giveaway that her character would be CG, and Abrams confirms this. Lupita will be playing Maz Kanata, an alien figure who will be computer-animated (as opposed to the puppets, makeup, and effects that Abrams has been using in other parts of the film). However, one thing’s for sure: she is very much aware of the Force, making her an important well of information for characters such as Finn and Rey. She joked how she would actually want to be called, saying, “People should say, ‘Hey! You!” Maybe someone from her past like say… We can’t wait to see how this plays out. Therefore Leia is not concerned with goofing around. “She’s not in many scenes, but her presence is powerfully felt when she’s there”.
Its been a rather busy few days for Star Wars fans. But both Ford and Fisher have been living it since 1977. The cast only pretends to be interested in each other.
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She added, “I’m mostly interested in how he stays in such good shape”.
