“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Secrets Revealed
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LucasFilm(ANAHEIM, Calif.) — Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy spoke Thursday at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California, and spilled a few secrets about their December movie that has fans waiting with bated breath.
After explaining that Abrams wanted to build out the set as much as possible and make them as real as possible, the director said, “We needed a standard … that people were [really] in those places.”
He added that there would obviously be an endless number of special effects, but that he’s watched the film and it still looks great pre-effects.
Abrams also revealed that those shots of actors in the desert were not of Tatooine, but a “new planet.”
That got the audience shocked, but Abrams refused to spill any more details about this new, “hot” planet.
Abrams also introduced the mysterious new main character including Oscar Isaac, who plays Poe Dameron, John Boyega who plays Finn, and Daisy Ridley who plays Rey — who all showed up to the event.
“We discover Rey on a new desert planet Jakku, she is a scavenger and completely self sufficient … until she meets another character and an adventure begins,” Ridley said, alluding to Boyega’s character.
Boyega, who is seen in the trailer as a possible storm trooper said his character is in incredible danger and the way he reacts changes his life forever. He joked that he is in fact a trooper, but looked to be laughing, so he may have been kidding.
Isaac said his character, seen previously as a pilot, is “the best friggin pilot in the galaxy.”
“He’s been sent on a mission by a certain princess and he ends up coming across Mr. John Boyega’s character and their fates are forever intertwined,” Isaac added.
Watch more as Abrams promised to reveal “lots more” later in the panel:
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