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What Director J.J. Abrams Did to Make Sure Star Wars: The Force Awakens Wouldn't 'Suck'
people.com ^ | 12/07/2015 AT 03:00 PM EST | Chris Tauber

Posted on 12/07/2015 5:33:21 PM PST by BenLurkin

"George Lucas told a story about everyman, everywoman characters who were nobodies who had to step up and become somebody. The idea that there would be a new crop of nobodies in the Star Wars universe who didn't realize yet they would become somebody, that was a very powerful feeling."

To create a story of the new "nobodies," Abrams wrote the Force Awakens script with Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi (plus Raiders of the Lost Ark for Lucas, too). They also had the "somebodies" coming back, including Harrison Ford as Han Solo, Carrie Fisher as Leia Organa and Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker. "We wanted to see them after 30 years," Kasdan told PEOPLE. "There was nothing really that we had to do but there were enormous possibilities of what we could do."

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Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy revealed that the film was screened for Lucas. The verdict? "He really liked it," she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: forceawakens; starwars; theforceawakens
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To: ClearCase_guy

Lens flares. If you have enough of them, the movie cannot suck.

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Lens flare is to film what cowbell is to music.


41 posted on 12/07/2015 7:15:42 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: piytar

Actually, the fact that Lucas liked it worries me. It might suck.

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Lucas did some great things and he did some bad things. All in all he made billions and had a tremendous influence.


42 posted on 12/07/2015 7:17:27 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Williams
Love the Star Trek reboot.

I second that emotion!

43 posted on 12/07/2015 7:22:33 PM PST by plain talk
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To: fr_freak

Vulcans are sexually capable at anytime like all other human types. It is just that they are fertile only once every seven years. This fertile period manifests itself a bit different from humans though.


44 posted on 12/07/2015 7:28:01 PM PST by AceMineral (One day men will beg for chains.)
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To: BenLurkin

Isn’t there a typo in the headline? Shouldn’t it be ‘The Farce Awakens’?


45 posted on 12/07/2015 7:28:57 PM PST by PAR35
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To: aynrandfreak

It’s a trap!


46 posted on 12/07/2015 7:30:16 PM PST by Defiant (There are two Republican parties--the GOPe and the PRP (People's Republican Party). PRP will win.)
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To: AceMineral
Vulcans are sexually capable at anytime like all other human types. It is just that they are fertile only once every seven years. This fertile period manifests itself a bit different from humans though.

Sure. Sure. And that explains exactly why Spock lets himself be led around by his green balls by Ohura like some lovesick beta male.
47 posted on 12/07/2015 7:41:11 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: BenLurkin

Creed was very well done and it really hit home how old I am getting. I highly recommend it.


48 posted on 12/07/2015 7:42:19 PM PST by MattinNJ (It's over Johnny. The America you knew is gone. Denial serves no purpose.)
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To: BenLurkin

Creed was very well done and it really hit home how old I am getting. I highly recommend it.


49 posted on 12/07/2015 7:42:19 PM PST by MattinNJ (It's over Johnny. The America you knew is gone. Denial serves no purpose.)
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To: yarddog

“Will one of the main characters be named Obama?”

He played Jar Jar Binks.


50 posted on 12/07/2015 7:55:09 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Obamacare...... Because grandma is shovel ready.)
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To: PAR35

I thought that with all the geriatrics, the title should have been “Return of the Prune Juice”, or “The Arthritis Strikes Back”.


51 posted on 12/07/2015 8:06:54 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Obamacare...... Because grandma is shovel ready.)
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To: fr_freak

oh probably not, but he was the big main enemy you know lol. there was a lot of dumb stuff I was able to overlook since it did not dominate the screen for very long.


52 posted on 12/07/2015 8:24:18 PM PST by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: MattinNJ

I liked Creed, but was only interested when Rocky was on the screen. It was also very sad to me to see never say die Rocko
So feeble.


53 posted on 12/07/2015 8:35:45 PM PST by freepertoo
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To: ClearCase_guy

Very few directors can be trusted with CGI’s. Lucas is not one of them.


54 posted on 12/07/2015 8:50:31 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: montag813

Into Dorkness was vomitus.


55 posted on 12/07/2015 9:09:16 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: GingisK
Jar Jar drunken master, Sith Lord internet theory.

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=jar+jar+binks+sith+lord&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001

56 posted on 12/07/2015 9:24:06 PM PST by Lady Heron
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To: ClearCase_guy

Did you hear that Abrams and Bay are going to collaborate?

Yep, they will finally make exploding lens flare a reality!


57 posted on 12/07/2015 9:50:59 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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