Jar Jar Binks, a goofy amphibious character who irritated many “Star Wars” fans in the 1999 film “The Phantom Menace”, will not appear in the new movie “The Force Awakens”, producer Kathleen Kennedy said on Sunday.
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What the movie will offer, Abrams told Reuters, is great performances and visual effects, music “that breaks your heart and soars”, plus a story, characters and creatures that are new, but feel like they fit in the universe created by George Lucas in the original 1977 film. “I can’t say anything about my size”, she said with a laugh, but perhaps added a clue: “You know, posters are not really up to scale”. “That’s right”, the director admitted. “But there are a lot of them in ‘Return of the Jedi'”. Throwing in a teaser at the end might make The Force Awakens feel like a set up for other movies rather than a standalone piece of entertainment.
Booze. Fisher, who is outspoken about her battles with addiction in the past, noted, “We drank through the whole trilogy in the beginning. So…that’s what J.J. brought to this, was sobriety”.
The cast and Abrams said they wanted to preserve the element of surprise for filmgoers. Unlike Marvel movies, there is no after-credits sequence following “The Force Awakens”.
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This photo provided by Disney shows Daisey Ridley as Rey, left, and John Boyega as Finn, in a scene from the new film, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”.
