Unpopular Jar Jar Binks won’t appear in new ‘Star Wars’: producer

“I said, ‘All I wanted to do was tell a story of what happened-it started here and it went there”. Creator George Lucas was quoted as saying some 15 years ago that The Force embodies “a concept of religion based on the premise that there is a God and there is good and evil”.

The much-despised character from the Star Wars prequels will not return for the next film. “Harrison (Ford) insisted on it”, Kennedy said.

When asked what was his favourite scene from the upcoming film was, Ford who does not have a Twitter account of his own, had this to say: “The sword fight with Rey and Kilo Ren”.

“It’s gratifying to be part of this”, he added. “It’s fun to play with these toys again”.

Not to be forgotten are the beloved droids R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) and C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) as well as Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), Han Solo’s Wookiee co-pilot.

Maz Kanata (Lupita Kyong’o), the thousand-year old space pirate who now runs a bar came across Yoda at some point in her life… but we won’t see that in this film according to director J J Abrams.

She described where Leia’s at as we catch up with the onetime Rebel leader in The Force Awakens. For our purposes, it was exciting but also terrifying because we knew that there was going to be a certain level of scrutiny and expectation on who these people were going to be. She’s courageous and she’s vulnerable and she’s so nuanced…

Game of Thrones’ Gwendoline Christie praised Abrams for updating the world of Star Wars by creating new, strong female characters like her chromed-out Captain Phasma-“Star Wars’ first onscreen female villain”.

Nyong’o, meanwhile, will slip into the skin of pirate Maz Kanata, for which the actress used motion-capture technology. It will be recalled that Abrams was being mysterious by giving only a few details when there was some news regarding the absence of Luke Skywalker from the movie trailers and posters, Ecumenical News reported. “She elevated all the scenes she is in, I’m forever grateful, and can’t wait for people to see her stunning performances”, he concluded.