It has lots of new images from Star Wars: The Force Awakens too. I like it. It was as warm, as fuzzy as you might imagine.
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“I didn’t have the imagination to recognize the future potential for the character”, he said, referring to his desire to want Han Solo dead at the end of “Star Wars: Episode VI – The Return Of The Jedi”.
You can imagine the cha-ching sound that rung in every Star Wars collector’s head when Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012 for $4.5 billion and announced that it would be releasing new films. How successful could this movie be when the entire cult of Han has been created specifically around Harrison Ford’s portrayal and personality? Everyone from Bendict Cumberbatch to Michael B. Jordan and Saoirse Ronan auditioned for “The Force Awakens” before J.J. Abrams ended up picking relatively unknowns to play the leads.
In a separate interview for People Magazine’s “Star Wars” special issue, the 73-year-old Ford said, “It was fun to work with [director] J.J. Abrams, who brought great energy, passion, and clear focus to the whole event”.
Fans continue to question Hamill’s absence in all of the promotions for the highly anticipated movie, including its official poster, teasers and full-length trailer. That’s of course much different from Ridley’s childhood.
She said: “I came out [after the movie] and was like, ‘Yeah, I’m cool”. “I was somewhat naughty as a child. I loved the drama classes”. China has become one of the biggest markets for movies over the last few years, even proving powerful enough to save films that absolutely floundered at the domestic box office see Terminator: Genisys. “I see a churning energy device on the ground of a planet that sends a massive, lavalike beam upward – Sunsucker or not, it looks scary”.
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But a long time ago (in 1976 to be exact) at a movie studio not too far away, Star Wars wasn’t considered to be the blockbuster sensation it is today.
