“But not thing everything is so rosy in the lead up to ‘The Force Awakens”, with a minor controversy erupting over the Slave Leia action figure that hit store shelves.
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Star Wars’ Finn (who happens to be black) and Chewbacca (happens to be Wookiee) get shafted in China.
The book can be pre-ordered on Amazon, where it’s already a No. 1 best-seller.
Caleb Grimes, the Virginia-based author of the “Star Wars Jesus” book and website, believes young Luke Skywalker’s initial yearning for something more in life echoes “our desire to know a personal God”.
(CNN)Whether you love it or hate it – come December 18, there is no escaping it. After 15 years away from the silver screen, Star Wars is back and fans the world over are reawakening.
The report comes from Kathleen Kennedy, who has been the head of LucasFilm since the company was sold to Disney in 2012, and she also revealed that George will be attending both the Los Angeles and London premieres. I would just uninstall Twitter from your phone and avoid social media until you can go see the movie.
Star Wars fans get a Droid’s-eye view of some new characters, along with a long-familiar one, when “Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Toronto Exhibit” opens on Queen Street West for a 16-day run starting December 5.
Fans are able to interact and take photos with the Star Wars BB-8 droid replica at the pop-up exhibit. The trailers that have been released onto YouTube – along with the inside-Hollywood rumours – all point to a movie about (you guessed it) the struggle between good and evil and not a movie about trade politics and Jar Jar Binks.
“The last time anybody saw me in a stormtrooper outfit was when we rescued the princess off the Death Star.” says Hamill, “I couldn’t be more proud of everyone in the Star Wars family”.
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The originial installment of the the billion dollar movie franchise, Star Wars, A New Hope, was created by George Lucas in 1977.
