Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)

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New promo art for Star Wars: The Force Awakens online

With just a few hours to go before Star Wars Celebration 2015 officially begins, some new promo art for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has debuted online to whet your appetite for what will no doubt be a clone army’s worth of news. Check out the new images, showing off new shots of the Stormtroopers and the villain Kylo Ren, below.

 

[Ulysses]

Νέο τρέϊλερ...και όπως πάντα,μία σταλιά μας δείξανε οι σπαστικοί...

 

[asikamin]

ΗΟΜΕ!!!

 

[zeroraid]

μου κάνει εντύπωση που ο Lucas αποφάσισε να κάνει star wars σε 3d!!

αν δεν κάνω λάθος ήταν αρνητικός! και μην ξεχνάμε ότι έχει όλα τα μέσα για να κάνει ίσως το πιο εκπληκτικό 3d που έχει γίνει ποτε σε ταινία.

 

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits the cover of Vanity Fair

As they have in the past, Vanity Fair has gotten ace photographer Annie Leibovitz to create some winning portraits of a Star Wars cast, in this case stars John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Peter Mayhew (a.k.a. Chewbacca), new droid BB8 and that old scoundrel Harrison Ford. Check out the magazine cover in the gallery below!

According to the site, there will be much more Star Wars: The Force Awakens goodness to come on Monday, so be sure to check back then!

 

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens characters revealed in new photos

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s big cover and video reveal, Vanity Fair has posted six more Star Wars: The Force Awakens set photos taken by Annie Leibovitz for their June issue, including an official (though mostly assumed) reveal that Adam Driver is playing the dark-cloaked villain Kylo Ren, and that Lupita Nyong’o’s motion capture character is a pirate by the name of Maz Kanata. Check them all out below!

 

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Captain Phasma revealed in new Star Wars: The Force Awakens photo

It looks like the Vanity Fair photo dump has gotten ahead of itself, as French fansite Star Wars Universe has posted a new Annie Leibovitz photo from the June issue featuring “Game of Thrones” star Gwendoline Christie’s character on the set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, now officially revealed to be the First Order villain known as Captain Phasma. Check out the shiny new chrome trooper below!

 

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J.J. Abrams slowly pulls back the curtain on Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Following their Star Wars: The Force Awakens cover that was revealed on Sunday, Vanity Fair has shared an additional still of star Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) in performance capture equipment. As revealed just the other day, the Academy Award winner will be playing a pirate by the name of Maz Kanata. The outlet has also released further details from their interview with writer and director J.J. Abrams wherein the Bad Robot maestro discusses some of the important considerations he had to take into account when preparing this December’s return to a galaxy far, far away.

“[W]hat’s cool is we’ve obviously had a lot of time [during the development process] to talk about what’s happened outside of the borders of the story that you’re seeing,” says Abrams. “So there are, of course, references to things, and some are very oblique so that hopefully the audience can infer what the characters are referring to. We used to have more references to things that we pulled out, because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.”

As such, Abrams explains that it’s a tricky balance in finding the spectacle that fans expect from a Star Wars film while keeping the specifics wholly grounded in the story itself.

“There are a few specific references that are kind of my own little stupid, secret ones,” Abrams admits, “But what I realized early on was it was all about point of view – meaning it’s not like you just objectively throw in a star field or a spaceship or a desert planet or whatever the thing. The question is, who is that person in that experience? Why does it matter to them? What are they desperate for or afraid of? For me, you could reference all the stuff you want, but the experience of the audience in this is that they’ve got to be sitting with someone who happens to be on-screen going through these experiences. And then that’s not just a desert planet; it could be the most desperate place in the world. Or that’s not just a spaceship flying by; it could be the greatest, most heroic moment of your life. That, to me, has been the constant struggle: to make sure that none of these things are treated like either they’re a museum piece and we’re trying to honor them or they’re gratuitous and thrown in because, well, it’s a ‘Star Wars’ movie, so you’ve got to put these things in. Everything has got to be essential to the characters in the film.”

 

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The name of Andy Serkis’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens character revealed

Following the new character images that debuted earlier this month, Lucasfilm has revealed an all-new image of actor Andy Serkis in motion-capture gear and revealed that his Star Wars: The Force Awakens character will be called “Supreme Leader Snoke.” Check out the image below!

 

[Ulysses]

Πότε θα βγει επιτέλους το κανονικό τρέϊλερ;
Χριστούγεννα βγαίνει η ταινία,τελευταία στιγμή θα μας το δείξουνε;

 

[Ulysses]

 

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Kylo Ren and Star Wars: The Force Awakens land on the cover of EW!

Ahead of this weekend’s D23 Expo, Entertainment Weekly has revealed the cover to their latest issue which features none other than Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren and his crossguard lightsaber from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Check it out below!

 

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New Star Wars: The Force Awakens photos and more!

Following their cover reveal, Entertainment Weekly has revealed a ton of new Star Wars: The Force Awakens photos, including new images of characters and behind-the-scenes shots from the set. In addition, some new details on the film’s story and characters have also come to light in their exposé on the film.

“You rarely get a chance to be involved in something that you would typically be an audience for,” Abrams says about his initial hesitation to sign on for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. “Katie, my wife, said, ‘If you want to do this and you don’t, you’re going to regret this.’ It was really about being willing to take that leap, and jump into the possibilities of what these characters are doing, and where they are.”

Abrams wasn’t the only one lured in to the world as screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan revealed what drew him back into the world of “Star Wars” after sitting out production on the prequel films.

“I thought, ‘Wow, okay, these people have lived — they’re in a different place in their lives, Han and Leia and so on. They’ve lived the same 30 years I have. What would that be like? How would you see things differently?’” Kasdan tells the magazine. “And I was trying to figure out how I saw things differently, and one of the surprises is that you don’t learn all that much. You haven’t become much wiser than you were, and things are not clearer to you, and the world is just as confusing as it always was — and that’s a kind of lovely thing to get to write about again. Age does not necessarily bring wisdom; it just brings experience.”

Brief new details on the film are also revealed, such as Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren being referred to as “Darth Vader obsessive” and that Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia is now in possession of Darth Vader’s original lightsaber, once thought lost after Luke’s hand was severed in The Empire Strikes Back.

Looking to the future, J.J. Abrams had some high praise for Rian Johnson’s work so far in crafting Episode VIII, saying: “It’s a thrill to see [Johnson] take things and elevate them beyond what we had imagined at the time.”

Kathleen Kennedy also chimed in on Johnson’s work, revealing that the writer/director started from scratch on the project: “We know where we’re going, but only in the broadest sense. When Rian came in and started writing his script, he started from scratch, other than knowing what we had done in Episode VII and projecting out where it was going. He then sat down and put pen to paper, and it’s 100 percent him.”

Finally, Abrams made a firm reveal about whether he will return to the franchise with Episode IX, announcinging: “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.”

 

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Learn more about Star Wars: The Force Awakens villain Kylo Ren

Having just appeared on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, it’s high time we all got to know Kylo Ren a little better. The Star Wars: The Force Awakens villain, played by “Girls” star Adam Driver, is described as a “Darth Vader obsessive” by EW, a comparison corroborated by director J.J. Abrams.

“The movie explains the origins of the mask and where it’s from, but the design was meant to be a nod to the Vader mask,” Abrams says. “[Ren] is well aware of what’s come before, and that’s very much a part of the story of the film.”

Fans got their first taste of Kylo Ren in the first teaser trailer for the film in which he unleashed his crossguard lightsaber, which Abrams revealed is a weapon of Ren’s own design.

“The lightsaber is something that he built himself, and is as dangerous and as fierce and as ragged as the character,” Abrams says.

The magazine and Abrams also revealed that Kylo Ren isn’t the character’s original name, but is instead a title given to him, not unlike Darth Vader.

“He is a character who came to the name Kylo Ren when he joined a group called the Knights of Ren,” Abrams says. “He is not your prototypical mustache-twirling bad guy. He is a little bit more complex than that, and it was a great joy to work with Adam Driver on this role, because he threw himself into it in a deep and remarkable way.”

 

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High-Res Star Wars: The Force Awakens photos released!

Lucasfilm and Disney have debuted high-res versions of the previously released Star Wars: The Force Awakens photos, which you can check out in their crisp, watermark-free glory below!

 

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens poster by Drew Struzan revealed!

Straight from Disney’s D23 Expo comes the moment fans across the galaxy have been waiting for, an official Star Wars: The Force Awakens poster by artist Drew Struzan! Having provided legendary posters for all six films in the franchise, there was previously doubt about Struzan returning for the seventh film in the series, but you can check out his latest work (an exclusive to the convention) below!

 

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Empire reveals two Star Wars: The Force Awakens covers

UPDATE: The second cover has debuted online and can be viewed below as well. The original story follows:

Empire magazine has revealed the first of two covers to their upcoming winter preview issue, both of which will feature Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The first cover, which you can see below, shows off the dark side of the force. Check back soon for the other cover in a few days, along with new details on the highly-anticipated film!

 

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New The Force Awakens image features a fearsome Kylo Ren

Empire magazine has revealed a new image of Adam Driver’s fearsome villain Kylo Ren from their upcoming winter preview issue feature on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Check out the dark side acolyte below!

 

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J.J. Abrams reveals inspiration for The First Order from Star Wars: The Force Awakens

After the double whammy of Star Wars: The Force Awakens covers revealed last week, Empire is back with some new details on the villains in the upcoming film which feature an interesting inspiration. Speaking about “The First Order,” director J.J. Abrams had this to say:

“That all came out of conversations about what would have happened if the Nazis all went to Argentina but then started working together again?’ What could be born of that? Could The First Order exist as a group that actually admired The Empire? Could the work of The Empire be seen as unfulfilled? And could Vader be a martyr? Could there be a need to see through what didn’t get done?”

It was previously revealed that Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren is a member of a group titled “The Knights of Ren,” and Abrams also confirmed that this means he’s also not a member of the Sith.

“Kylo Ren is not a Sith,” Abrams said. “He works under Supreme Leader Snoke, who is a powerful figure on the Dark Side of the Force.” Andy Serkis is doing the motion capture and voice for Snoke.