Empire magazine today released the following quotes from J.J. Abrams regarding Kylo Ren, Supreme Leader Snoke and he formation of The First Order. Kylo Ren and Supreme Leader Snoke: “Kylo Ren is not a Sith,” confirms JJ Abrams in the new issue of Empire. “He works under Supreme Leader Snoke, who is a powerful figure…
Rick Carter has worked on almost every film you love: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The Goonies, Back to the Future Parts II and III and Jurassic Park, to name a few. Now he’s a production designer on The Force Awakens. That’s good news, of course. But what’s great news is that…
There’s been a lot of consternation among some fans as to George Lucas’ lack of involvement in the new movies, particularly The Force Awakens. Sure, he wrote the initial treatments for Episodes VII-IX, but in January he very pointedly said the following: The ones that I sold to Disney, they came up to the decision…
I admit it: ever since the title reveal, news has been incredibly slow. Maybe this is the calm before the storm, or maybe… things are just very calm. But thank God for John Oliver, who has broken this drought. Because now we get to see Artoo-Detoo and J.J. Abrams being attacked by fake salmon on…
A couple of days ago, Kevin Smith visited the set of Episode VII, and he was suitably blown away. You can hear on Smith’s Hollywood Babble-On (NSFW) podcast the sequence of events that led him to the set of Episode VII at around the 1:18 mark, including a particularly amusing email exchange with J.J. Abrams: The best information…
Episode VII was initially announced for summer (presumably May) 2015, but word on the street was that, as pre-production progressed and Lawrence Kasdan and J.J. Abrams rewrote Michael Arndt’s draft script, Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy approached Disney CEO Bob Iger for a May 2016 release date instead. Iger compromised and gave them a December 2015…
I’m liking J.J. Abrams more and more. In response to the TMZ leaks, Abrams tweeted the following message as a handwritten note: I wish people would stop leaking photos from Episode VII. And making ridiculous claims that the Millennium Falcon is in the movie. That note happens to be resting on a certain table from…
It’s a simple gesture, but this video is pretty exciting nonetheless: Seeing Lawrence Kasdan with J.J. Abrams makes it all seem so… real. As if the table read wasn’t cool enough. Yes, it’s actually happening: the ever-likeable Abrams is working with the man who gave us Empire, Jedi and Raiders to bring us the sequel to…
The very likeable J.J. Abrams has given some more interviews regarding Episode VII. MTV offers up the following quote regarding the release date: I will say that it is an infinitely better situation now than when they were saying that they wanted it in the summer [of 2015]. Before I even came onto the project,…
Two pieces of Episode VII news today, one coming from the official Star Wars blog and the other coming straight from the horse’s mouth. Firstly, R2-D2 will be in Star Wars: Episode VII. What of a certain golden protocol droid? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see… The photo of J.J. Abrams, Kathleen…
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