For perspective, it’s still almost $1 billion below the $1.74 billion inflation-adjusted US haul achieved by Gone With the Wind in 1939, as well as the No. 2 $1.53 billion gathered by – you guessed it – the original Star Wars released in 1977.
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While his name is never even mentioned onscreen, Lor San Tekka is the first character we meet in The Force Awakens.
Back in 2010, the DLC (downloadable content) for The Force Unleashed featured a brutal scene in which original trilogy legend Han Solo was killed by a man wielding a red lightsaber. “Larry [Kasdan] and I had a bunch of thoughts of where certain things could go and we shared those things with Rian Johnson, who’s directing VIII“, he says.
“We feel it here and it drives us every day, and it will continue to in the very bright future of Star Wars”.
The record-breaking performance in North America of “The Force Awakens” does not factor in inflation.
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” ranks as the fourth highest-grossing film in history, globally. “Ultimately, the structure of “Star Wars” itself is as classic and tried and true as you can get”.
“I can understand that someone might say, ‘Oh, it’s a complete rip-off!'” Abrams admitted. “It was obviously a wildly intentional thing that we go backwards in some ways to go forwards in the important ways”.
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Incidentally, The Force Awakens’ inflation-adjusted total also places it three spots below 1983’s Return of the Jedi at $809.9 million, one spot below No. 17 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace at $777.6 million, and three spots ahead of $762.2 million from No. 21 (and fellow Lucasfilm product) Raiders of the Lost Ark. This was an impossible task for any filmmaker, and Abrams made the film he most wanted to see, as a Star Wars fan.
