The Internet Thought Disney Infinity Revealed Rey’s Parentage… Until It Didn’t
That could be taken as good news, as it implies that some future edition of Star Wars Battlefront will include material from The Force Awakens.
What Episode 8 could tell us is the real identity for Rey.
That very moment when Han steps on the Millennium Falcon and says “Chewie, we’re home” is the purest moment of cinematic joy I’ve ever experienced in my life.
Exhibition companies like AMC Entertainment, Regal, Cinemark, Carmike and Imax are lagging this week, even though “The Force Awakens” has been crushing IMAX ticket sales records.
“Star Wars movies are meant to be a couple of hours of diversion from reality, and we need that”, the newspaper quoted him as saying. It featured Maz Kanata, the wise alien pirate played by Lupita Nyong’o, giving the blue lightsaber that used to belong to both Anakin and Luke Skywalker to someone very different than who it ended up with in the film: General Leia Organa. Ultimately, it is she who goes to find Luke Skywalker, showing her resilience.
Argos say they have been selling three Star Wars products a minute since the start of December. When Harrison Ford’s Han Solo offers her a blaster, she snorts, “I can handle myself”.
“The Force Awakens” is set 30 years after the Battle of Endor at the end of “Return of the Jedi”. In the monstrously lopsided world of cinematic protagonists – one where stores are selling six-packs of all-male “The Force Awakens” action figures that substitute a random X-Wing pilot for the movie’s main character – merely changing a male hero to a female one would be welcome enough change.
The only place to see the movie on opening weekend in the Ledger-Transcript’s coverage area was the Peterborough Community Theatre, where owner Carol Nelson reported the best weekend in her time owning the theater, despite not quite selling every seat for the weekend’s nine shows. I can not wait to watch Episode VIII.
Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar, who is known for his hard-hitting films, including “Chandni Bar” and “Fashion”, said he is a huge fan of the “Star Wars” franchise.
If being an obsessive Star Wars fan has taught us anything, it’s that the various “making of” books that crop up shortly after a new movie is released always reveal even more fantastic ideas that never made it to the screen. Johnson has also been tasked with writing the screenplay for Episode IX, but Colin Trevorrow will direct instead.