BB-8 is the new android in J.J. Abrams' “Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens.” (Photo : Instagram/cinema_vittoria)
With the space sci-fi film "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens" coming to theaters soon, director J.J. Abrams indicated that the film is set to revive features of its predecessors.
In his interview with USA Today, Abrams said that part of the story of "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens" was "history repeats itself," and part of it was who was going to tell one's history and what did people know about what had come before.
Abrams also mentioned how pivotal Princess Leia's and Han Solo's roles are in his upcoming film. In the same interview, the filmmaker said that he would not have believed that Leia would have lost her strength and purpose and determination to do the right thing and defeat an enemy she had seen coming.
Abrams added that he would not have believed that Solo would have settled down and become complacent. Moreover, the filmmaker said he did not believe that Threepio would have stopped complaining or that light versus dark would have gone away as a fundamental tenet of the series.
After six installments, Abrams described how the seventh "Star Wars" installment's iconic score resurrected by composer John Williams. In his interview with 60 Minutes Overtime, Abrams said that it might be the most surreal, being in the presence of Williams, who he had used to listen to as a kid on the floor of his room with his headphones on.
According to Abrams, it was almost cheating when one had Williams, since he wrote feelings. The filmmaker added that he knew how to make one's heart soar like no one else.
For Abrams, there was no template and it was gut. "When you're working on the story, you go," he said.
"Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens," which is set 30 years after the events in the "Return of Jedi." Aside from Ford, the film also casts an ensemble old and new actors including Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Gwendoline Christie, Oscar Isaac, Simon Pegg, Max von Sydow, and Domhnall Gleeson, among others.
Abrams' "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens" is slated to premiere in theaters in the United States on Dec. 18.
Watch the "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens" Chinese trailer here:
