The movie’s cast including Harrison Ford who plays Han Solo, Daisy Ridley who is Ren, Mark Hamill who plays Luke Skywalker, Carrier Fisher who is Princess Leia, John Boyega who plays Finn, Gwendoline Christie who plays Captain Phasma, Oscar Issac who plays Poe Dameron, Adam Driver who is Kylo Ren and Lupita Nyong’o who plays Max Kanata all hit the red carpet.
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A giant opaque tent shrouded the carpet, which was lined with Stormtrooper mannequins and neon lights that resembled giant lightsabers. “George Lucas, from the bottom of my heart, and behalf of everyone involved with ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens, ‘ thank you, sir”. Take a look as Fisher curses up a storm while she’s interviewing her co-star Oscar Isaac for TMZ.
The Force Awakens has now celebrated its global premiere, with the film’s stars and a legion of stormtroopers rocking up to honour the cinematic event of the year. It has already broken presale ticket records, and many fans are eager to see the reunion of original trilogy characters last seen in 1983’s “Return of the Jedi”.
Fans attend the December 14 premiere in all manner of Star Wars characters.
For those without tickets to the premiere, the most they could see was the outside of the tent.
And his rant didn’t end there, as he later said: “I just don’t get Star Wars, I just don’t get it. Silly robots, stupid plots”.
Elizabeth Banks, among the celebrities who attended as a fan, takes a selfie as she arrives. Each of the three theaters in the closed-off section of Hollywood Boulevard – the Dolby Theatre, the El Capitan, and the TCL Chinese Theater – will screen the film simultaneously Monday night, meaning more than 5,000 people will catch the first-ever showing.
He explained on GMB: “I just don’t like Star Wars”.
“I don’t look at the things I do from a vantage point of putting a stamp on it, I’m trying to service the master of the stories and the characters”, he said.
And filmmaker Steven Spielberg also had a lot of praise for the movie franchise, and insists he knew it would continue to be a success.
Documentary director Brett Morgen, best known for Montage of Heck, about Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, wrote: “Force Awakens might be the best blockbuster since the original”.
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Force Awakens actor John Boyega figures to become a household name, given the box office expectations of the film.
