“I was standing in the doorway talking to [director] J.J”.
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Although “Star Wars” is now part of the Disney roster alongside Marvel Studios, the long-running franchise won’t be taking a page out of its corporate sibling’s playbook.
Even the trailers that will be attached to Star Wars: The Force Awakens when it begins screening for audiences on the evening of December 17th are getting attention. For me when I heard Obi-Wan say that the Force surrounds us and binds us all together, there was no judgement about who you were.
The director, also known for his successful reboot of the Star Trek films, added: “It’s not a nostalgic trip – we had to go back in order to go forward”.
Aside from broad character outlines, details are being kept tightly under wraps, prompting endless online speculation by fans eager to see the saga’s first film installment in a decade.
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy recently said that George Lucas, godfather of the Star Wars franchise, saw The Force Awakens and “liked it”. The Force Awakens is tipped to make more than one billion dollars at the box office – which would make it one of the biggest grossing movies of all time. I guess it’s one of those typical situations where you see your ex in a new light, and suddenly they seem great.
The British actress was cast as Rey, a desert scavenger from the planet Jakku.
So far, we’ve only seen Maz Kanata in images, like the official Star Wars poster, and this clip doesn’t really reveal too much either about the mysterious character either.
His iconic characters, including Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, C3PO and R2D2, are front and center, after all, in the new movie. “It’s weirder than I ever could have imagined”, Ridley said via Refinery 29.
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“Star Wars was always a boy’s thing and a movie that dads take their sons to”, he told the daytime program.
