New Poster and Featurette for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Director J.J. Abrams, producer Kathleen Kennedy, and stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac and Mark Hamill all give interviews, with Abrams saying “It’s a world I want to get back to immediately”. Knowing that he couldn’t act as a consultant to Disney or director J.J.

But the trickery was not just for laugh, the stunt was for a good cause- to promote the Star Wars Force of Change initiative, a competition for people to win a spot at the premiere of the new sci-fi sequel in exchange for charity donations. “I said, ‘All I wanted to do was tell a story of what happened-it started here and it went there”. The secrecy has stirred rampant online speculation, particularly about the fate of Skywalker, who is absent from trailers and posters promoting the new film. Despite Lucas being possibly the most critical viewer of the movie, he approves, and said that he liked the film.

George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars franchise, has already seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first of the saga that he’s not directly involved with, after he sold Lucasfilm and its properties to Disney in 2012.

It’s getting close. We can all feel it. Star Wars Episode VII is only weeks away and we’re all desperate to see it. One person who has seen it however is Harrison Ford.

Maybe that’s going a bit overboard, but keep in mind, this is a man who appears to not particularly like the original trilogy so much anymore – as evidenced by the numerous times he has ruined them in the years following their release. When asked what his favourite action scene from the new film was, Ford typed this… “So I said, ‘Okay, I will go my way, and I’ll let them go their way'”.

Lucas recently commented that his continued involvement in the Star Wars franchise would have led him to “muck everything up”, and that handing over his creation was “like a divorce”. I can’t involve myself in that mentality.