Star Wars Fans Go Nuts When Force Awakens Projector Malfunctions
Disney reportedly made a decision in 2014 before casting the new roles to make a “legacy pay scale” for talent like Ford, Fisher and Hamill, who were already part of the Star Wars series, and general pay scale for newcomers.
46 hours, 2 trilogies, 9 showings of THE FORCE AWAKENS, and a Holiday Special, and we can officially announce Jim Braden as our #AlamoJedi THE MARATHON AWAKENS: Star Wars Endurance Challenge victor!
For those hoping to see more epic lightsaber battles – don’t count on it. Rogue One takes place after Anakin Skywalker and Emperor Palpatine exterminated the Jedi Order and before the rise of Luke Skywalker.
Steve Breen, senior vice president of merchandising for walmart.com, said the movie has fueled increased interest in “Star Wars”-related toys at the nation’s largest retailer”.
Abrams and screenwriters Michael Arndt (who worked on an earlier draft of the script) and Lawrence Kasdan participated in a Q&A following a screening of The Force Awakens for the Writer’s Guild of America (via EW). Yes, they looked great, but I remembered standing in line for “Attack of the Clones” outside Topanga Canyon Mall and emerging bewildered hours later.
But I have an 8-year-old boy who’s on winter break from school. I expect the “Star Wars” movies to continue with massive box office success.
The final goodbye tugs on the heart strings as much as any scene in Star Wars history as Han reaches up and touches his son’s face after he’s stabbed through the chest before falling off the platform to his death. Everything he enjoys gets merchandized, and much of it is designed that way. And working with puppeteers, just the fact that an inanimate thing can be brought to life by someone moving their hand, I just think it’s fantastic.
Han Solo was really one shrewd guy from the galaxy far, far away.
Note that Disney said that the Star Wars Land planet was not introduced in episodes one through six.
“The Force Awakens” contains several significant payoffs and twists, and I’ll leave it at that. It was a chance to go to the movies with his dad and one of his best friends and eat some popcorn.
From a truly neutral standpoint, the prequels have some really fun fights, great effects, and retroactively set the stage for the original trilogy in a somewhat seamless fashion. Modi received an overwhelming response from the American leaders and his Star War moment came when he appeared with X-Men star Hugh Jackman at the Global Citizen Concert in Central Park.
Q: What “Star Wars” character would you say Kylo Ren is most obsessed with?
Still, he’s no Darth Vader, and trying to duplicate that character would be absurd.