Thanks to Man’s Life, this little blast from the past came back to our attention – the original trailer for Star Wars. But now we get not one, but three new films!
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The first TV spot for The Force Awakens broadcast last week was the first in a series of short teasers for the upcoming Star Wars movie.
It would be interesting to see which of the rumored connections-between Rey and Han, or between Finn and Lando-would be proven true in the film.
Could the pair be the new Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin? However, this one is apparently much stronger than the previous two seen in Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. The film’s script was penned by director JJ Abrams, Toy Story 3 writer Michael Arndt and Star Wars franchise veteran Lawrence Kasdan.
Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner unveiled that consumer interest in its first run of Star Wars: The Force Awakens toys is so high, that it has left the company playing catch up.
Fans caught a glimpse of Harrison Ford’s character handing Rey (Daisy Ridley) a blaster of a few sort, saying, “You might need this”.
The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner’s exterior is painted to look like droid R2-D2, while its inside is decked out to the Star Wars theme, and has the six current movies available for viewing on board. We also see families passing down the films from generation to generation. Elsewhere in the Entertainment Weekly issue on “The Force Awakens”, Boyega says that the New Order told the Stormtroopers that Skywalker is “a villain who destroyed the benevolent Empire”.
He gave me a Jar Jar Binks glow in the dark stencil and it was all downhill from there.
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Daniel Fleetwood, 31, a Star Wars super fan from Texas, was recently given months to live after a terminal cancer diagnosis. “They would be characters who they may have heard of, but maybe not”.
