“A really good script, the opportunity to work with J.J., who I’ve admired, and it just seemed like a good idea.”
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This isn’t the first time that Abrams has addressed the racist reaction to Boyega’s casting. Until then, “I don’t worry about saying anything”, Ford says.
The Middle East premiere for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will be a red-carpet, invitation-only event brought to the capital by twofour54 in partnership with the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority and The Walt Disney Company. His answer was intriguing.
He said: “I’m surprised and obviously delighted”. Were the original Star Wars movies a boys’ club? “And it was horrifying”, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” director shared to Howard Stern during his appearance on SiriusXM station last Monday. It reminded me of when I was in Tunisia on the salt flats. “I wasn’t anticipating it”.
In order to fully embrace the magnetic pull of Star Wars, many fans are going to spend the next few weeks catching up on the decades-old film franchise by watching the series from start to finish.
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Ford even ad-libbed the now-famous “I know” response to Princess Leia’s declaration of love in 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back, and he pushed George Lucas to kill Solo in 1983’s Return of the Jedi to show the stakes of galactic war. Most notably, the fact that the films were re-edited, so that in a key scene, Greedo shot first, rather than Han Solo (as original audiences had seen it). His review? “It was great”. It’s got great production values. I hate when I see a trailer, and I feel like I’ve just seen a whole movie in an encapsulated form.
