Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (USE SPOILER TAGS!)

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by Riddler The Slag

Maybe it's just me and my time serving in the military but isn't this guy just a tad young to be a General?

Skin cream has advanced in the galaxy. He's actually 78 years old.

[Geoff D]

With every new set of pictures it brings a key point into sharper and sharper focus: We're getting a new Star Wars film, mother****ers!

[the sordid sentinel]

Originally Posted by aiman04

EW.com has published their discussion with Kathleen Kennedy, JJ Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan.

They first discussed how and why J.J. Abrams ended up in the director's chair after first turning down the job:

"Kennedy persuaded him to helm Star Wars: The Force Awakens by asking a simple question, one with the potential to upend our core beliefs about the galaxy far, far away. “In the context of talking about story and laying out what we were thinking, I said one thing to him,” Kennedy recalls. “‘Who is Luke Skywalker?’” Abrams, who’s 49 now but was only 11 when the original Star Wars debuted in 1977, decided he needed to know the answer, even if he had to devise it himself. “He said, ‘Oh my God, I just got the chills. I’m in,’” Kennedy says. “I mean, it really was almost that quickly.”"

They also reveal various details about the different factions, Han, Chewie, Leia, the bad guys and Luke's Lightsaber:

"The Empire has morphed into a junta known as The First Order, while X-Wing pilots like Oscar Isaac’s Poe Dameron now fly for a splinter group known as the Resistance. Princess Leia (Fisher) has come into possession of the lightsaber once possessed by her father, Darth Vader, and later lost by Luke (Hamill) when Vader separated him from his arm during that “join me” duel in The Empire Strikes Back."

"The amount of screentime the Skywalker twins may get is still unclear, although Luke’s fate is obviously a key factor. Ford’s Han Solo, however, will be one of the leads, piloting the Millennium Falcon alongside his old pal Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew.) Among the newcomers, desert scavenger Rey (Daisy Ridley) and runaway stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega) will be running for their lives, with the rolling droid BB-8 trying to keep up. Eventually all five of them end up aboard that familiar starship."

"On Team Dark Side is Darth Vader obsessive Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), The First Order’s merciless General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson) and chrome-armored officer Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie)."

Kathleen Kennedy also speaks about the influence of George Lucas on these films:

“George spoke often about that tension in everybody between what’s good and bad. He always felt that it was easier to be bad than good,” she says with a laugh. “I’m not sure all people would agree, but I think that that’s always an interesting conflict to explore. So that’s a big part of the themes inside of Episode VII.”

Was there anything from the original films they struggled to echo in The Force Awakens? “I think we can’t explore in quite as much detail issues of compassion, the way [Lucas] did in terms of the values of the Jedi,” Kennedy says. “But we’re going to get there, let’s put it that way. In the arc of all three movies, that will increase.”

And finally, J,J. Abrams confirms that he will not direct the final film in the Sequel Trilogy Episode IX:

“No, I’m not going to direct Episode IX, as much as I am deeply envious of anyone who gets to work with this group of people on the future movies,” he says...“It’s a thrill to see [Rian Johnson] take things and elevate them beyond what we had imagined at the time,”

Commentary by StarWarsUnderworld.com

Interesting..thanks for posting.

[aiman04]

JJ Abrams talks the charater names.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/12...haracter-names

What's interesting is that Rey's and Finn's last names still not revealed, and will probably stay unknown until December 16th. This suggests that their last names will be of something familiar, that we'll be able to connect to someone once we hear it. I have little doubt that Rey's will be

[Show spoiler]Solo/Skywalker

, but is it possible Finn is a

[Show spoiler]Windu?

Or a

[Show spoiler]Carlrissian

as his Force ability is not inherited but was given during the Awakening. And we know the the name Ren came from a group called Knights of Ren, so he can still be a

[Show spoiler]Skywalker.

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

With every new set of pictures it brings a key point into sharper and sharper focus: We're getting a new Star Wars film, mother****ers!

Yeah, I was pretty much sold on the teaser and now these pics confirm it. I'm done looking at stuff now, will just wait for the film and leave the rest to surprise. Let's do this shit!

[ZoetMB]

Originally Posted by goeagles5039

[Show spoiler]May I ask why c3po has a red arm?

Everyone in the series has to have their arm cut off at least once.

Edit: And since there's another character's photo above who also has a red arm, there seems to be a Product Red promotion to fight HIV/AIDS in the Star Wars universe. Or maybe that was the only color they had left at the arm store.

[manunited1]

Originally Posted by aiman04

JJ Abrams talks the charater names.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/12...haracter-names

What's interesting is that Rey's and Finn's last names still not revealed, and will probably stay unknown until December 16th. This suggests that their last names will be of something familiar, that we'll be able to connect to someone once we hear it. I have little doubt that Rey's will be

[Show spoiler]Solo/Skywalker

, but is it possible Finn is a

[Show spoiler]Windu?

Or a

[Show spoiler]Carlrissian

as his Force ability is not inherited but was given during the Awakening. And we know the the name Ren came from a group called Knights of Ren, so he can still be a

[Show spoiler]Skywalker.

Jedi don't have children or sex for that matter so no windu or skywalker unless he stopped being a Jedi.

[aiman04]

Originally Posted by manunited1

Jedi don't have children or sex for that matter so no windu or skywalker unless he stopped being a Jedi.

Tell that to Anakin.

[Deathbymonkeys]

Originally Posted by manunited1

Jedi don't have children or sex for that matter so no windu or skywalker unless he stopped being a Jedi.

Um. Windu could have easily survived and it's long been thought he had. And at that point he would have stopped being a Jedi.

[pksmith74]

Originally Posted by manunited1

Jedi don't have children or sex for that matter so no windu or skywalker unless he stopped being a Jedi.

Didn't Yoda essentially encourage Luke to have children being the last Jedi? "The Force runs strong in your family, pass on what you have learned"

[Deathbymonkeys]

Originally Posted by pksmith74

Didn't Yoda essentially encourage Luke to have children being the last Jedi? "The Force runs strong in your family, pass on what you have learned"

From a certain point of view. I mostly thought he was talking about Leia but he could have always meant both.

[Det. Bullock]

Originally Posted by manunited1

Jedi don't have children or sex for that matter so no windu or skywalker unless he stopped being a Jedi.

In the old EU the Jedi weren't always like that (the jedi of the prequels became like that a few thousand years before ina desperate attempt to stave off desertion to the sith), and sex isn't forbidden, what's forbidden is attachment, but then Jedis probably aren't the types to sleep around in the first place.

[wormraper]

Originally Posted by Det. Bullock

In the old EU the Jedi weren't always like that (the jedi of the prequels became like that a few thousand years before ina desperate attempt to stave off desertion to the sith), and sex isn't forbidden, what's forbidden is attachment, but then Jedis probably aren't the types to sleep around in the first place.

exactly, the whole "celebate" jedi didn't come around till Lucas went around on a drug binge and created the PT along with midichlorians

[iamsometal]

Originally Posted by pksmith74

Didn't Yoda essentially encourage Luke to have children being the last Jedi? "The Force runs strong in your family, pass on what you have learned"

Pretty sure Yoda just meant take on new apprentices and train them in the ways of the force. This could be totally new people (Rey, Finn), who might be strong with the force, or Leia.

[Himmel]

http://www.thewrap.com/star-wars-the...global-brands/

[CinemaBlu]

Originally Posted by wormraper

exactly, the whole "celebate" jedi didn't come around till Lucas went around on a drug binge and created the PT along with midichlorians

George Lucas never said that Jedi knights were celibate. In fact he said the exact opposite. His exact quote was, ""Jedi Knights aren't celibate. The thing that is forbidden is attachments and possessive relationships."

[Riddler The Slag]

More on Harrison Ford returning as Han Solo.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/13...eturn-han-solo

[CinemaBlu]

Originally Posted by aiman04

JJ Abrams talks the charater names.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/12...haracter-names

What's interesting is that Rey's and Finn's last names still not revealed, and will probably stay unknown until December 16th. This suggests that their last names will be of something familiar, that we'll be able to connect to someone once we hear it. I have little doubt that Rey's will be

[Show spoiler]Solo/Skywalker

, but is it possible Finn is a

[Show spoiler]Windu?

Or a

[Show spoiler]Carlrissian

as his Force ability is not inherited but was given during the Awakening. And we know the the name Ren came from a group called Knights of Ren, so he can still be a

[Show spoiler]Skywalker.

[Show spoiler]Finn could also be a Solo.

It was revealed recently in the comics that Han was in an interracial marriage.

[blonde_devil]

Originally Posted by CinemaBlu

George Lucas never said that Jedi knights were celibate. In fact he said the exact opposite. His exact quote was, ""Jedi Knights aren't celibate. The thing that is forbidden is attachments and possessive relationships."

From a pure biological perspective, you wouldn't think Jedi aren't celibate but rather only mate with other Jedi since you have a better change of having a Jedi child that way. But nothing in the movies has ever said they were celibate, it was just a rumor Padme heard. I mean seriously, you think Qui-Gon didn't go around having fun, walking into bars and doing cheap Jedi tricks to impress the ladies?

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by blonde_devil

From a pure biological perspective, you wouldn't think Jedi aren't celibate but rather only mate with other Jedi since you have a better change of having a Jedi child that way. But nothing in the movies has ever said they were celibate, it was just a rumor Padme heard. I mean seriously, you think Qui-Gon didn't go around having fun, walking into bars and doing cheap Jedi tricks to impress the ladies?

Yeah, Qui-Gon had quite the reputation, especially when it came to his, um, saber.


Oops, that's Liam Neeson...