George Lucas Has Seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Will Attend Premieres

In 1977, she was first hired for the role but was asked by Lucas to shed some weight to the tune of 10 pounds. Joining them in Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the diminutive BB-8, and now a short teaser has been released that focuses on the latest robotic Star Wars star. “The thing is, I think it was me that invented it. But he would never admit that!”

The one-room display features life-size replicas of some of the new characters to the Star Wars canon and a photo-op with BB-8 – the franchise’s newest droid.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, the much-anticipated installment in the “Star Wars” film series, is slated to hit theaters on December 18.

Though his character is the third most prominent in previously released posters, Finn has been minimized and lowered down beneath Harrison Ford’s Han Solo and Carrie Fisher’s Leia in the Chinese poster. In fact, although the character won’t have a major role in The Force Awakens, she will indeed appear in Episode VIII, which is being directed by Rian Johnson. I thought I was gonna have a panic attack on the first day.

Entry is free, though you might want to fire up the old snowspeeder sooner rather than later, the exhibit departs for a galaxy far, far away on December 21.

Star Wars original Mark Hamill has swapped his trademark Luke Skywalker light saber for the confined spaces of Stormtrooper garb to prank hundreds of unsuspecting tourists in Hollywood.

Sure, there are a lot of different ways to splice together a Star Wars poster, but minimizing the movie’s only black star seems an odd choice.

“I’ve said to (JJ), ‘If you don’t need me to see it, I don’t need to see it, ‘” Goddard said, “I’m excited to dress up and show up on Friday or the Thursday midnight screening”.