Overwhelming demand for the movie, the seventh installment in the “Star Wars” saga and the first “Star Wars” movie in a decade, has prompted some Chicago-area ticket holders to post their tickets on the secondary market as theaters continue to add opening-weekend showings.
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Star Wars luminary and long-time franchise scribe Lawrence Kasdan claims that Star Wars: Episode VIII will be “so different” compared to J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens.
You best have your best fancy dress and queuing shoes on because we think this is going to be the biggest screening of 2015.
Taking part in a Twitter Q&A session Friday afternoon, Harrison Ford responded to a question about his favorite scene in The Force Awakens with an answer that was either a massive spoiler, or perhaps just a simple mistake when remembering the name of a new character.
One of the photos show Kylo Ren paying homage to the remains of Darth Vader’s Helmet.
Once guests leave the theater, they enter the Launch Bay, which is basically a Star Wars museum replete with to-scale artifacts from all seven movies – both Anakin’s Podracer and Rey’s Speeder vehicles have their own displays. Younger fans of the movie will also be able to go through “Jedi training” and discover if they have what it takes to join the “rebel alliance”.
The most extravagant piece thus far: a gold-and-diamond edition of the movie’s new droid, BB-8.
Heck, even if you couldn’t care less about Star Wars, it’s an impressive feat.
“We have the fun stuff”, Weissman said.
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Theme parkgoers and “Star Wars” fanatics won’t be disappointed with all the fanfare, he said: “It’s fireworks like only Disney can do”. Hollywood Studios growing Star Wars presence could one day rival other local nerd magnet Universal Studios Orlando’s The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
