For all the months of advance photos and footage from the highly anticipated “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, Luke Skywalker’s role in the film remains elusive – but don’t expect Mark Hamill to shed any light. In a new interview that aired this morning, Lucas explained where his ideas for Star Wars diverted from Disney’s ideas. “When you break up with somebody, the first rule is no phone calls”.
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“So I said, ‘OK, I will go my way and I let them go their way'”. “You’re going to love it”.
However, Hamill told PC Gamer magazine: “I have something coming out where there’s an amount of money where if it leaks, because of me, I don’t get that payment”.
Riding galaxy-sized expectations, the new “Star Wars” movie is already setting records for pre-opening ticket sales, with still a month to go. In case you forgot, this is a J.J. Abrams film! “There’s more to it than just spaceships”, he insisted, he says, adding that he hopes “the Force doesn’t get muddled into a bunch of gobbledygook”.
“I can’t even begin to tell you how much of an influence Disney has had on me”, Lucas revealed in August this yearat the Disney D23 expo.
If you are anxious that all theatres around you are going to be sold out opening night, “while there are widespread reports of sold out theaters in certain locations, and nasty overpriced eBay re-sellers, there are loads of seats still available across the continent”. I don’t like that, I never did.
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The Phantom Menace did of course have advocates, though, and rewatching it certainly unearths admirable aspects of the film, which is now commonly bracketed in the cliché so-bad-it’s-good category of film history. And I don’t have the control to do that anymore. I believe that outside of some insane blizzard or who knows what else, if these numbers are anything to go by Star Wars: The Force Awakens could and probably will bring Jurassic World’s record down this December.
