Abrams says drew on Terence Malick films for new ‘Star Wars’

Harrison Ford, in Australia on a promotional journey for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, returns as Han Solo in the seventh film in the iconic movie series. They didn’t live in corridors of power – the only shining floors were the bad guys’, and that to me was “Star Wars”: a dusty, greasy, rusted, ragtag, homespun group of underdogs who are up against this insane, high-tech, infinitely powerful institution. Thankfully, the film’s director J.J. Abrams chose to nip the chatter in the bud. “You bring Star Wars back to where it all began”.

The beefcake claims he was too afraid to ask actual Star Wars cast members Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill about their own expectations as he did not want to be unprofessional.

Meanwhile, it appearsHan Solo has passed the torch in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Rey takes control of the Millennium Falcon.

In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015 photo, actor John Boyega poses for a photo during a promotion for the new film, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, in Los Angeles. “Gareth Edwards was tapped to direct “Star Wars” spin-off ” Rogue One, set to be released in 2016, Rian Johnson was chosen to helm ” Star Wars Episode VIII” for a 2017 release and Colin Trevorrow is the director of “Star Wars Episode IX” for a 2019 release. “But Rey is very different”. She doesn’t come from royalty. To her, that just is what it is.

“The Force Awakens” has faced racist resistance for casting a black man to the lead role.

The thing that is so fun about “Star Wars”, and I remember this from when I was a kid, was the communal experience of being with hundreds of people and getting to scream and laugh and cheer and cry with the story. “I’d rather be asking questions and feel that they’d been answered for me [by the film]”.

While he didn’t exactly say that he did not like the film, he did not say that he like it either.

“The size of it is what initially was interesting and kind of daunting”, he said. Plus my wife and I had plans to go away with our kids for a little while.

But Driver said a piece of advice from Abrams had kept him going.

“The most jaw-dropping-est thing to me, in retrospect, is that moment in Episode IV when Leia is being held and Vader goes in to torture her for information”, Abrams recalled.

Are you at peace with your decision to directly only one?