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How did you buy your ticket? View All Videos 9. View All Photos Movie Info. When a defector named Finn crash-lands on a desert planet, he meets Rey Daisy Ridley , a tough scavenger whose droid contains a top-secret map. Together, the young duo joins forces with Han Solo Harrison Ford to make sure the Resistance receives the intelligence concerning the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker Mark Hamill , the last of the Jedi Knights.

Fantasy, Adventure, Sci-fi, Action. Kathleen Kennedy , J. Abrams , Bryan Burk. Lawrence Kasdan , J. Abrams , Michael Arndt. Dec 18, wide. Apr 5, Walt Disney. Dolby Digital, Dolby Atmos. Star Wars Saga. Harrison Ford Han Solo.

Mark Hamill Luke Skywalker. Carrie Fisher Leia. Adam Driver Kylo Ren. Daisy Ridley Rey. John Boyega Finn. Oscar Isaac Poe Dameron. Lupita Nyong'o Maz Kanata. Andy Serkis Supreme Leader Snoke. Domhnall Gleeson General Hux. Anthony Daniels C-3PO. Max von Sydow Lor San Tekka. Peter Mayhew Chewbacca. Gwendoline Christie Captain Phasma. Ken Leung Admiral Statura.

Greg Grunberg Snap Wexley. Kenny Baker R2-D2. Iko Uwais Razoo Quin-Fee. Yayan Ruhian Tasu Leech. Tim Rose Admiral Ackbar. Abrams Director. Lawrence Kasdan Screenwriter. Abrams Screenwriter. Michael Arndt Screenwriter. Kathleen Kennedy Producer. Abrams Producer. Bryan Burk Producer. Tommy Harper Executive Producer. Jason McGatlin Executive Producer. Dan Mindel Cinematographer. Mary Jo Markey Film Editor.

Maryann Brandon Film Editor. John Williams Original Music. Rick Carter Production Design. Darren Gilford Production Design. Neil Lamont Supervising Art Direction. Lee Sandales Set Decoration. Michael Kaplan Costume Designer. Nina Gold Casting. April Webster Casting. View All Critic Reviews Nov 24, The movie re creates the nostalgia of the first original movies in the story wars saga while also creating a new set of characters.

The movie has some spectacular visuals then I felt it could easily be compared to a new hope. Overall though the film was pleasurable and is a must see for the general audience. Tyler H Super Reviewer. Nov 12, Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu, which has increasingly become the mantra of Hollywood executives. The seemingly endless wave of remakes, reboots, re-imaginings and redundant sequels was bound to hit the Star Wars franchise sooner or later.

It took less than ten years after Revenge of the Sith brought the ghastly prequel saga to a sorry conclusion for the powers-to-be in this case Disney to decide that audiences would be ready for another instalment or three. Abrams, gave the sci-fi community and the film-going public reason to have positive expectations about this series again. Having already convinced themselves, like long-suffering Highlander fans, that things at least couldn't get any worse, the hype steadily grew as the old cast members returned and more and more details were affectionately teased.

It seemed as though everyone was pinning their hopes on this film working, as though it was the last great hope that Star Wars could one day be good again. Sadly, that last great hope has ended up as just another version of A New Hope, leaving us dazzled by the modern visuals but otherwise disappointed. It's true that I was initially dismissive of Disney's decision to buy Star Wars, back in the days when I regularly wrote for WhatCulture!.

It's also true that I have never been the biggest fan of Abrams, branding him "the master of hype" and "our generation's Wizard of Oz", who is capable of making flashy, tempting trailers but less capable at telling original stories. But as someone who looks upon the originals fondly - or at least acknowledges their deserved place in cinema history - I still count myself among those wanting this to be good, rather than hoping that it would fail outright.

The single biggest problem with The Force Awakens is how desperately and despairingly unoriginal it is. It's positively flabbergasting how a film like this can be hailed as a masterpiece when it feels for all the world like watching a bunch of children dressing up and re-enacting their version of A New Hope. The toys may be faster, and the Death Star-that's-not-but-actually-is might be bigger, but it's still essentially A New Hope with modern-day editing.

Whether you look at A New Hope as a Star Wars film or as a love letter to adventure stories, it still holds up well enough for all its problems to make this feel immediately superfluous. I will give Abrams some credit, in that it is one of his better behaved efforts in terms of the camerawork.

There is less of the irritating lens flare that there was on Star Trek or Super 8, and the action sequences don't look like they were assembled purely for the basis of making the trailer look exciting. But that being said, it's clear that the two 'Trek films he made were essentially just practice for this.

The lightspeed sequences here are almost identical to the hyperspace sequences from Star Trek Into Darkness. The presence of the older cast warrants a further comparison with 'Trek. There's a conscious effort here to bring back the original actors to give the project their blessing and pass the torch, just as in Star Trek Generations or certain episodes of The Next Generation TV series. There are some lovely moments here: the chats between Han Solo and Leia are the film's most human and emotional parts, and Mark Hamill's appearance, like an exiled King Arthur having Excalibur returned, is a nice touch.

But their presence only serves to remind us how good the originals were, and adds doubt as to whether the new blood are good enough to hold things up on their own. The Force Awakens is massively derivative from the outset, both in the general movements of its plot and its specific details.

Jakku is just Tatooine by any other name, BB8 is R2-D2, the plans for Luke's home are the plans for the Death Star - even the early deaths are a straight lift from Anakin's vengeful slaughter in Attack of the Clones. It scores out over that film by at least pretending to break from the mould, rather than insulting our intelligence by trying to argue that everything fits in with the existing canon.

But it's ironic that a film which claims to break with the Star Wars Extended Universe has ended up borrowing so nakedly from its forebears. Not only are we in overly familiar territory, but The Force Awakens has moments where it is very unsure of itself. There are at least two occasions in the script where a dramatic situation is defused by the characters stopping to take the piss out of themselves, and both times it feels forced and underwhelming.

You can't build up something as serious or significant, then slip into Spaceballs, and then back again as if nothing happened. It undercuts the stakes of the drama in a very jarring manner. Then there is the plot to consider.

On top of its overt resemblance to and invocation of A New Hope, The Force Awakens has several moments of narrative carelessness. Feeling responsible and blaming himself for the failure, Luke went into exile. Han also explains that he heard rumors that Luke went searching for the first Jedi Temple. Solo explains that he was able to find the Millennium Falcon soon after it entered space because he and Chewbacca were scanning for its signature.

This was also why the criminal gangs were able to track it down so quickly, and meant the First Order could track it as well. In order to bring BB-8 to the Resistance, they needed to switch to a clean ship, which Han says he can obtain from an old friend. Han says that she has maintained her castle for over a thousand years, where she runs a bustling cantina. Unbeknownst to all, spies from different sides take notice of the group.

Attempting to seek guidance from his grandfather, Darth Vader , Kylo Ren sits quietly in his meditation chamber. In front of him is the burned helmet of Vader, recovered from the funeral pyre on Endor. With the re-emergence of his father and Snoke's orders to kill him, Kylo feels an internal struggle within himself.

He reveals to Vader's burned helmet that the light is pulling him in again and that even Snoke could sense it. He then asks his grandfather to show him the power of the darkness again, to pull him back to the dark side of the Force and help him overcome his future trials.

Han and Chewie speak with Maz. Finn arranges with Sidon Ithano and his first mate Quiggold that he will work as payment if they will fly him to the Outer Rim. Rey implores Finn not to leave, but instead to help her find the Resistance. Finn, however, insists on leaving, and that there is no way to defeat the First Order. He also admits that he lied about being in the Resistance. He tells his story that he was a stormtrooper in the First Order.

He had deserted after his first battle because he didn't want to kill unarmed villagers, for the First Order. After Finn leaves, Rey hears the screaming of a young girl. She follows the screams. She descends deeper and enters a chamber that contains many relics from the past.

The Force calls her to Maz's curio box, an ancient Wroshyr wood chest. Inside it, she finds the lightsaber that had previously belonged to Anakin Skywalker and his son Luke. Upon touching the lightsaber, she receives a series of visions. She sees Luke placing his metallic hand on top of R2-D2 near a fire, presumed to be Luke's burning Jedi temple. Next, she is lying on the ground, in the rain at night. Corpses lay around the Knights of Ren who slaughtered these victims.

Kylo Ren notices and comes toward her. Before he reaches her, she sees herself as a child yelling, to her parents to stay on Jakku. When her parents were leaving Jakku, Unkar Plutt told her to quiet herself. Next, she sees Ren is chasing her in a snowy forest, in the future.

Rey pulls herself out of the vision in terror. After the vision, she finds Kanata standing outside the room. Kanata explains to her the lightsaber's history and that it was calling to her. Kanata then reveals that she herself is Force-sensitive; although she was never a Jedi, she can simply close her eyes and feel the light of the Force within herself, and recognizes that Rey can do this too. Frightened by her vision, Rey runs into the woods with BB After gaining Supreme Leader Snoke's permission to fire the Starkiller superweapon, Hux chooses the Hosnian system , which hosts the capital of the New Republic, Hosnian Prime , as well as the New Republic Defense Fleet , in order to demonstrate the power of the First Order in an attempt to wipe out the "illegitimate" government of the New Republic in one fell swoop.

The test is a success and Hosnian Prime, the current elected home of the Galactic Senate , all other astronomical bodies in the system, and an unknown percentage of the New Republic fleet are annihilated by the First Order's superweapon. The destruction of the Hosnian system is visible from the surface of Takodana.

Shaken by the destruction, Finn re-evaluates his choice to leave. Flying in with TIE fighters and Atmospheric Assault Landers , the First Order swiftly assaults the castle and levels it, killing many of its inhabitants. Maz gives Luke's old lightsaber to Finn for safekeeping, telling Han she doesn't have time to tell him how she retrieved it.

BB-8 follows Rey into the forests surrounding the castle, and the First Order is unable to locate the droid until a stormtrooper officer reports to Kylo Ren that the astromech had been sighted in the company of a girl. During the fighting at the castle, Finn wields the lightsaber to kill one stormtrooper before he is overpowered by FN , a former squadmate of Finn's. His life is narrowly saved by Han, who uses Chewbacca's bowcaster to blast FN at the last second. Han and Chewbacca also kill multiple stormtroopers, but are captured along with Finn by the First Order.

A fierce dogfight ensues and results in the destruction of many First Order TIE fighters and the deaths of many stormtroopers from X-wing strafing runs. Rey encounters Kylo Ren at the woods, and fires at him with her blaster pistol, but Kylo restrains her using the Force.

Probing her mind, he discovers that she has seen the map he's been looking for all this time, and orders the First Order to pull out, saying they had what they came for and no longer need BB As the battle rages on above the castle, the remaining First Order troops board their ships and retreat, and Han witnesses his son carrying an unconscious Rey away. The Resistance is victorious, freeing Finn, Han, and Chewbacca. Han and Leia are reunited, and Han reveals to Leia that he saw their son.

With the recovered map from BB-8 displayed on hologram, 3PO reveals that it is only partially complete, and that the map matches no charted system on record. It is revealed that Han and Leia are aware that their son is Kylo Ren, and that their son's fall to the dark side, despite Luke's efforts to guide him, caused them to separate, with Han returning to his smuggling business and Leia spearheading the activities of the Resistance.

Upon finding the location of the Resistance base, the Starkiller begins draining the power of the sun to destroy D'Qar. Meanwhile, the Resistance plans an attack of their own. Finn gives them the Starkiller's blueprints, which reveal that the Starkiller drains the energy of a star in order to charge its primary weapon, and that it requires a thermal oscillator , which sustains the energy on the planet, in order to function.

If the thermal oscillator were destroyed, it would de-stabilize the planet's core and implode the base. However, they would need to do it before the First Order charges the Starkiller weapon and destroys D'Qar. Finn, Han, and Chewie volunteer to disable the base's defensive shield from the inside. Ren takes off his helmet and shows her his face. Initially, Ren is able to see into Rey's mind, mentioning an island surrounded by water.

However, the dark warrior has a difficult time probing her mind, and Rey is even able to push back into Ren's mind. After a mental struggle, Rey announces that she can sense fear in him - fear that he will never be as powerful as Darth Vader. Humiliated, Kylo storms out of the room to seek audience with Snoke. Left alone and aware of what just happened, Rey realizes it is as Kanata told her: she truly is Force-sensitive.

She attempts to use a Jedi mind trick on her stormtrooper guard , to make him release her and leave the door open. It doesn't work, but Rey tries again: this time he walks over and tells her he will tighten her restraints instead of undoing them.

Concentrating, Rey tries one last time, and the stormtrooper listens to her demands. She quickly also remembers to have him drop his blaster as he leaves so she can arm herself. Rey then makes her way through Starkiller Base, honing her Force abilities while using stealth. She also draws on her experience climbing through wrecked Imperial starships to make her way through the bowels of the installation's machinery.

When Kylo discovers that Rey escaped, he throws another fit of rage, slashing at her empty restraint chair. Finn's main objective is to rescue Rey from captivity. Since the Starkiller's shields have a fractional refresh rate, Han pilots through the shields at lightspeed, and the Falcon makes a rough landing at the edge of a cliff.

Han, Chewbacca, and Finn sneak into the main base and capture Captain Phasma, whom they force to disable the shields before disposing of her in a garbage chute. They reunite with Rey, who had already escaped on her own. They fire on the Starkiller's hexagonal oscillator structure, but fail to destroy it as the First Order sends TIE fighters to stage a counterattack and throw the Resistance into chaos.

Seeing this, Han, Chewbacca, Finn, and Rey try to create an opening by planting thermal detonators inside the base. Sensing his father's presence, Kylo goes to meet Han. Han then confronts his son, Kylo Ren, calling to him by his birth name, "Ben".

They approach each other on a bridge over a large pit, and Han pleads with his son to reject Snoke and return to the light side of the Force. Ben, removing his mask and seeming regretful and scared, holds out his lightsaber to Solo, asking for his father's help.

Han replies that he would do anything for him, but when he tries to retract the lightsaber from Ben's hand, he resists. Ben then twists the angle of the hilt and ignites the weapon through Han's torso. Witnessed by Rey, Finn, and Chewbacca, Han strokes his son's face for the last time, before falling to his death. Enraged, Chewbacca, Rey, and Finn start firing at Ren and the stormtroopers.

As the firefight rages, back on D'Qar Leia has to sit down when she feels Han die through the Force, squeezing her eyes shut against the tears. Chewbacca injures Ren with his bowcaster, but Ren chases them out of the base and catches up to Finn and Rey in the forest. Rey calls Ren a monster and then proceeds to shoot him with her blaster, but Ren knocks Rey out by Force pushing her into a tree.

A desperate and terrified Finn comes to her aid immediately. Ren angrily accuses Finn of being a traitor, and Finn pulls out Luke's old lightsaber and attacks him in a rage. Ren is already badly injured, bleeding out of his abdomen from the bowcaster wound, but even so is too much for Finn.

Finn manages to deal him a glancing wound, but nonetheless Ren quickly overpowers the former stormtrooper and deals him a grievous injury to his back. Ren tries to use telekinesis to pick up the lightsaber his grandfather built, but it resists his pull and instead flies to Rey, who has awakened from her stupor.

During this time, Chewie detonates the thermal detonators in the base, allowing Poe to lead a squadron of X-wings into the trenches of Starkiller Base. Poe finds an opening in the thermal oscillator and enters, while a following TIE crashes, unable to execute the same flight maneuver. Inside, Poe fires volley after volley of torpedoes into the oscillator, destroying the Starkiller's thermal oscillator thirty seconds before it finishes draining the sun to completely charge its primary weapon.

This causes a chain reaction to go off, which destroys the base and levels the entire planet's terrain - without the weapon to dissipate it, the stored solar energy begins tearing the planet apart from the inside. Rey and Ren continue fighting: Ren has taken even more wounds, from Chewbacca, Finn, and Rey, but even so initially holds the advantage, drawing on his rage to ignore the pain. Ren becomes so impressed with Rey that he tries to tempt her, complimenting her strength with the Force and offering to complete her training if she joins him.

This backfires, however, as it only serves to reassure Rey of her own power, she begins to draw on the Force to hone her attacks, and the tide of the duel shifts. Ultimately, Rey is able to overpower Ren and deal him a severe wound to his face while severing his lightsaber in two.

By this point, Kylo has taken too many wounds to continue standing, but he still struggles in vain to rise again. Before Rey can move in to finish him off, a large trench forms between them as the base begins to fall apart. Rey returns to Finn, despairing that Finn is not waking up and that they are trapped on the rupturing planet. However, Chewbacca arrives with the Millennium Falcon to rescue them. Inside the main base, chaos reigns as General Hux has already fled, and the other officers rush to abandon the installation as well.

Hux, meanwhile, reports to Snoke, who orders him to rescue Ren and flee the base, so Ren can finish his training. The Millennium Falcon and the remainder of the Resistance fleet manage to escape Starkiller Base as it erupts into a ball of fire. They then enter hyperspace to return to D'Qar. R2-D2 suddenly awakens and reveals that he holds the map to Luke's location, with the only piece of the map missing being the one BB-8 was given by Poe.

Together they complete the map and reveal the location of Ahch-To , the planet on which Luke Skywalker sought out the first Jedi Temple. As the unconscious Finn recovers in the medical unit, Rey kisses him on the head and thanks him for everything. With R2-D2 and Chewbacca in tow, Rey leaves on the Millennium Falcon and follows the map to the distant planet, a water world dotted with islands, which she had previously seen in her visions.

Rey pilots the starship to a particular island with a large, ancient stone village on it. She climbs the rock-carved steps to the top of the island , where she finds Luke Skywalker. Without exchanging any words, Rey presents him with his father's lightsaber. I don't think that's a secret to anybody—that's in the novels—and the children were in their 20s and everything. But they've taken it in a different direction, and I'm excited—they didn't use my story, so I don't know what they're doing.

Arndt worked on the script throughout Abrams who had been announced as the film's director [25] , for which they were allowed creative freedom to come up with a story. Page one. What do we desperately want to see? You don't flush, you know? The Force Awakens began preliminary shooting in April , [31] [32] with second-unit work taking place in Iceland and Abu Dhabi. We had a beginning, middle, and an end.

And I certainly, in a million years, never expected to return. I thought, even if they do more trilogies, my story is over. Serkis also confirmed that the character he plays in the film would utilize performance capture. They also revealed that production would take a two-week hiatus in August to accommodate Harrison Ford's leg injury.

Afterwards shooting would resume, and conclude later in the fall. On November 6 , , the official Star Wars Twitter account announced that the film had completed principal photography. The post gave the official title for the film as Star Wars: The Force Awakens , and was accompanied by a title card for the new name that, like the original trilogy, excluded the "Episode" subtitle.

These new uniforms were inspired by Apple products. Supervising sound editor Matthew Wood brought in former cast and crew members of Star Wars: The Clone Wars to record various background dialogue. McGregor's recording was combined with audio of the late Alec Guinness , and pre-existing Yoda audio was ultimately used in lieu of Oz's new recording.

During a concert with the Young Musician's Foundation Debut Orchestra on February 9 , composer John Williams stated that he was hoping to get the chance to write the musical scores for the new trilogy. The first teaser trailer—released early due to both fan demand and Abrams' request [6] [70] —was announced via the Bad Robot Productions Twitter account, with a note from Abrams saying fans will see a "tiny peek at what we're working on.

When a fish from Oliver's salmon cannon falls on the script that he's holding, Abrams gets frustrated and quits the film. A second teaser was released on April 16 , Among the subjects parodied were racist reactions to Boyega's casting, Lucas's comments about not being involved, and Abrams's involvement in the rival franchise Star Trek. Some members of the cast and crew also participated in an official press conference on December 5.

On May 21, , Disney, Lucasfilm, and Bad Robot announced "Force for Change," a charity campaign "dedicated to finding creative solutions to some of the world's biggest problems"; initially, the campaign was focused on contributing to UNICEF. Each person who donated was entered to win a set visit to and appearance in Episode VII. Barns was announced as the contest's winner.

Abrams screened an unfinished version of the film for Daniel Fleetwood , a year-old Star Wars fan with an aggressive form of cancer, who was likely to die before the film's release. The campaign for him to see the film was supported by several of the film's stars, including John Boyega, Mark Hamill, and Gwendoline Christie.

Fleetwood passed away on November 9 or 10, In addition to R2-KT's appearance, a variation of the st's logo was featured as a flag outside Maz Kanata's castle. Following Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm in , its " imagineers " began developing Star Wars —themed expansions to the various Disney theme parks.

However, Bob Iger halted work on these expansions until The Force Awakens and other future Star Wars films had reached a point in their development that elements from those projects could be included. Disney's merchandising campaign for the film began on September 4 , —dubbed " Force Friday. The merchandise garnered criticism as it lacked Rey's presence: Hasbro announced it would re-release its Force Awakens Monopoly set to include her after it excluded her in favor of Darth Vader, who is not in the movie.

Abrams said he was not involved much in the merchandising, and that when "I read that she wasn't in the Monopoly game and was quickly making phone calls about this because if it were true — and it is true, and now Hasbro, of course, has said they're going to put Rey in — it doesn't quite make sense why she wouldn't be there. Special features included deleted scenes, featurettes, and a feature-length documentary, Secrets of The Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey.

It included all of the bonus features from the original release, as well as an audio commentary by J. Abrams, additional deleted scenes, and additional behind-the-scenes conversations with cast and crew. The film made its television debut on the Starz channels, beginning September 10, Theater tickets became available for pre-order on October 19th, [86] with many online retailers experiencing outages due to heavy demand, including top sites such as Fandango.

Some theater chains limited the types of cosplay allowed at screenings of the film. For instance, fans at AMC and Cinemark weren't allowed to wear masks or face paint, or carry simulated weapons. Some chains also banned the carrying of lightsaber toys. The record was reached less than three weeks after release. According to Robert Iger's memoir The Ride of a Lifetime , George Lucas was not pleased with the film, feeling that it lacked creativity or innovation.

On his part, Iger explained that his company intended to make a film that was familiar to what had come before. He may not agree with every choice Rian made. But he appreciates the film-making. That I know. Abrams admitted one problem with the film, namely Rey and Leia hugging at the end, although it is not established that they know each other. Abrams explained Chewbacca was preoccupied with getting Finn medical attention, while Rey and Leia had spoken via transmitter off screen.

He said, "Had Chewbacca not been where he was, you probably wouldn't have thought of it. But because he was right there, passed by Leia, it felt almost like a slight, which was definitely not the intention. Wookieepedia Explore. Star Wars. Clone Wars Droids Ewoks. Administrators' noticeboard IRC Discord. Tutorials Editing sandbox Things to do Status article nominations Featured article nominations Good article nominations Comprehensive article nominations.

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The Force Awakens is the first Star Wars film to not have a direct tie-in game to accompany it. In the United States and Canada, it had the widest release of December across 4, theaters, [] of which 3, were 3D locations, a record IMAX screens 13 of which were 70mm , premium large format screens, D-Box locations, [] [] as well as releasing in the Dolby Vision format high-dynamic range , Rec.

This made it the first film since Warner Bros. Advance ticket sales for the film began on October 19, , [] and were in strong demand, resulting in online movie ticket sites crashing. It's not just an opening-weekend phenomenon. The Force Awakens is the first live-action Star Wars film not to be released theatrically by 20th Century Fox ; accordingly the film is not introduced with either that company's logo, or its signature fanfare composed by Alfred Newman.

Physical copies include behind-the-scenes featurettes, deleted scenes, interviews, [] and additional footage with eight bonus features. A Blu-ray 3D "collector's edition" of the film was released on November 15, including all the features of the original home releases, as well as several new bonus features, including new deleted scenes and audio commentary by director J. The premium cable network Starz had U. Analysts said that the box office receipts of the film, when compared to predecessors, must be adjusted for inflation, and that the first Star Wars film made more when this adjustment is made.

While The Force Awakens was very successful in the United States and Canada, the same success was not witnessed in many overseas individual markets such as India, other certain parts of Asia and Latin America. This was attributed to it being "a retro film" and how overseas audiences do not have the same nostalgia or affinity for the film as those in North America.

Internationally, the film was released in over 30, screens. The film had the biggest opening of all time in 18 countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Russia, and Sweden. Star Wars: The Force Awakens received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Packed with action and populated by both familiar faces and fresh blood, The Force Awakens successfully recalls the series' former glory while injecting it with renewed energy. Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph said the film "sets out to shake Star Wars from its slumber, and reconnect the series with its much-pined-for past", and "it achieves this both immediately and joyously is perhaps the single greatest relief of the movie-going year.

Certain critics found The Force Awakens derivative of the original Star Wars trilogy, [95] some expressing their opinion that the film was essentially a remake of A New Hope. Abrams' undeniable skill as a visual storyteller that the Mad Libs narrative doesn't outright destroy the picture. He felt that it "didn't [justify] a return to the universe" from not having an original story of its own to tell in the plot, characters, and musical score, negatively comparing it to George Lucas' prequel trilogy, and that some of its climactic moments felt unearned.

In an interview with journalist Charlie Rose that aired on December 24, , Lucas likened his decision to sell Lucasfilm to Disney to a "divorce" and outlined the creative differences between him and the producers of The Force Awakens.

Lucas described the previous Star Wars films as his "children" and criticized the "retro feel" of The Force Awakens , saying: "I worked very hard to make [my films] completely different, with different planets, with different spaceships—you know, to make it new. Abrams' interpretation. According to Iger, Lucas said, "there's nothing new" after seeing the film, and that "there weren't enough visual or technical leaps forward".

In , when directly confronted about Lucas complaints about The Force Awakens being too derivative of previous films, Abrams said, "What was important for me was introducing brand new characters using relationships that were embracing the history that we know to tell a story that is new — to go backwards to go forwards".

Abrams also said the scene of Starkiller Base destroying a solar system would have had a similar emotional impact to the Death Star destroying planet Alderaan in the original film, had he not chosen to delete scenes of a character who Leia interacted with, prior to the deleted character dying on one of the exploding planets.

Johnson's initial response to the script of The Force Awakens included the suggestion of minor adjustments to the ending. According to Abrams, these improved the movie and made it line up more with The Last Jedi. He also said that Johnson's boldness of The Last Jedi , mainly in his choice of Snoke's death, inspired him to be more original when returning for The Rise of Skywalker.

Several awards held their nominations before the December release of The Force Awakens , making the film ineligible for the 73rd Golden Globe Awards and some other awards ceremonies. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lawrence Kasdan J. Abrams Michael Arndt. Kathleen Kennedy J. Abrams Bryan Burk. Mary Jo Markey Maryann Brandon. Lucasfilm Ltd. Bad Robot Productions.

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Rey, as well as a rogue stormtrooper and two smugglers, are thrown into the middle of a battle between the Resistance and the daunting legions of the First Order. Every generation has a story. Rated PG for sci-fi action violence. Did you know Edit. Fans have given him the unofficial Stormtrooper number JB Goofs When Finn looks up at the sky while on Takodana, he observes the real time use of the First Order's Starkiller weapon, which is being used against a number of Republic Planets.

Han also looks up and sees the planets' outlines in the sky. Given that this weapon was being fired from a different star system with the star of that system providing the power , there is no way for Finn or Han to be able to observe light from the weapon in real time, as the light source would be many light years away. Also, they are supposedly in a different star system to that of the republic planets that were the target of the weapon, therefore there should have been nothing for our protagonists to see at all.

Quotes Han Solo : What was your job when you were based here? Finn : Sanitation. Alternate versions The end credits music is slightly different on the Blu-Ray version of the film - we get to hear a bit more of Rey's theme than what we heard in the theatrical version.

Abrams Produced and Performed by Shag Kava. User reviews 5K Review. Top review. Not Good. Yes, Disney hired a perennial remaker to remake the original once more, but then none of the actors were very good either. I am not sure whether the director failed in this respect too or the casting crew were working on a tight budget. Dotard-Krusher Oct 28, FAQ When does this take place in the Star Wars timeline? Is this a sequel to "Return of the Jedi"?

Details Edit. Release date December 18, United States. United States. Official Facebook Official Hotstar. Skellig Michael, County Kerry, Ireland. Lucasfilm Bad Robot Truenorth Productions. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 2 hours 18 minutes. Dolby Atmos Dolby Surround 7.

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