Star Wars Creator George Lucas Goes Deep on the Science Behind the Force
In 1897, J.J. Thomson discovered there are smaller particles than the atom, namely electrons. Now, in 2018 we finally know what is smaller than the Force. According to George Lucas, the answer is Whills. The microscopic creatures were once intended to be the stars of Star Wars Episodes 7-9 and we would have never known ...
Simon Pegg Opens up About the Joy & Pain of Being in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
As super fans, geeks, and all-around movie nerds, we’ve all dreamt of being part of the movie magic that goes into making our favorite film. George Lucas started a phenomenon in 1977 that has inspired successful film careers of generations that followed. Some people get to actually live that dream and step into iconic roles. ...
Here’s the Crucial Change in The Force Awakens Ending They Made for The Last Jedi
We wrote last December 1 about how Mark Hamill had mentioned to Empire Magazine that there was a pretty major moment at the end of Star Wars: The Force Awakens that needed to be changed in order to keep one of The Last Jedi’s most crucial plot points intact. The moment in question was when ...
The Ending of Star Wars: The Force Awakens Changed at the Last Second
With Star Wars: The Last Jedi premiering in just a few short weeks on December 15, we’re being treated to major cover stories, timed to pique interest (as if we really needed it) right before the film takes over the world. These have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Empire and Rolling Stone recently, and while the ...
Celebrating Reel Women: Women in Focus
Meet the women who are calling the shots behind the scenes. We’re talking about the influential women who have produced some of the most entertaining movies and television shows to have ever hit the big and small screens. Sure, you may know about famous actresses who have made the leap to producers such as Reese ...
Remembering Carrie Fisher
To a generation that came of age in the ‘70s and ‘80s, she will forever be Princess Leia of the Star Wars films, with her iconic buns-like-headphones hairdo, wielding a blaster as she leads the rebellion against the Galactic Empire. To another, slightly older demographic, Carrie Fisher was synonymous with one of the last great ...
See how They Created the Visual Effects for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Industrial Light & Magic has made as massive impact on filmmaking. ILM's imprint is all over the entirety of the Star Wars saga, and has touched so many of our most visually dazzling films it's hard to understate their impact. We've interviewed multiple ILM employees over the years to find out how they made alien robot-car hyrbids walk and ...
Gorgeous new Star Wars Posters From Artist Andy Fairhurst
Digital painter Andy Fairhurst loves to work in the fantasy and sci-fi genre. He’s been featured in books and book covers, magazines and websites (he’s been recognized with awards by sites like CGSociety and devianART). Now Fairhurst has created three beautiful new posters for Bottleneck Gallery featuring three Star Wars heroines. In fact, if one ...
Let This Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray Announcement Clip Wow You
If it's been a while since you've seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens, then this Blu-ray announcement clip will be sort of shocking—in that you'll go, wow, this movie really was pretty awesome. This 45 second blast of Star Wars goodness is the Battle of Takodana, when Han, Rey, Chewie and Finn go to seek Maz Kanata's help and end up ...
BB-8 Stars in Latest LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens Teaser
You could have almost predicted Star Wars: The Force Awakens being a hit with fans when everyone, and we do mean everyone, loved the new droid, BB-8. The Force Awakens was always going to be a commercial success, but the extent of it's success was made possible by the great word-of-mouth and critical reviews, and, to the instant ...
How They Built the Props for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
One of the things that has always made Star Wars such a delight is the intense care that went into the design of the franchise's many iconic props. It's not just that they're cool (they are), but that they looked like objects that have been in use for years or more. As far back as A New Hope, the Star Wars films ...
Did J.J. Abrams Drop a Major Clue About Who Rey’s Parents Are?
Even a notoriously secretive director like J.J. Abrams is going to let a clue slip if you put a microphone in his hand enough times. That might be what happened this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival, when Abrams sat down for a conversation with Chris Rock and responded to questions from the audience. One question was, of ...
Daisy Ridley Answers Your Star Wars: The Force Awakens & Episode VIII Questions
Okay, she's not giving away any spoilers for Episode VIII, of course, but this 30-minute Q&A session with Daisy Ridley is still plenty informative. Ridley, who we don't need to tell you but are duty-bound to write it, anyway (she played Rey in The Force Awakens, there) sat down with StarWars.com’s Andi Gutierrez for a Q&A session broadcast live on ...
Watch Behind-the-Scenes Footage of the Lightsaber Duels in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
To credibly inhabit Rey, a scavenger on the desert junkyard planet of Jakku, Daisy Ridley had to train on a climbing wall (to name just one piece of her pre-production workout routine). And how about all those great lightsaber moves by Rey, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and Finn (John Boyega)? Now you can see a brief snippet ...
Watch Deleted Scenes From Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Yesterday, we shared Daisy Ridley's amazing Star Wars: The Force Awakens audition tape, which we'll embed again below for your watching pleasure. Today, thanks to Star Wars UK, we're also sharing this deleted scenes teaser, which showcases a few choice moments that never made it to the final cut; Kylo Ren boarding the Millennium Falcon after its' crash landed ...
Watch Daisy Ridley’s Powerful Star Wars: The Force Awakens Audition Tape
“What we were looking for was someone new, ” J.J. Abrams says in the incredible clip of Daisy Ridley's audition tape, which will be part of extras available when Star Wars: The Force Awakens comes to Digital HD on April 1st and the Blu-ray and DVD on April 5th. There will be loads of special features, including deleted scenes, ...
Watch This Fascinating Video Interview With Star Wars‘ Mark Hamill
He might not be in Star Wars: The Force Awakens for all that long, but Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker is who drives the entire narrative—everybody in The Force Awakens is looking for him, and we know he'll be a huge part of Episode VIII. In this 70-minute interview with the Oxford Union, Hamill discusses his frustration with the end of Return of the Jedi (he ...
See how they Created Maz Kanata in new Star Wars: The Force Awakens Featurette
Lupita Nyong’o’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens character, Maz Kanata, is a pivotal player in the new saga. She delivers Luke Skywalker's lightsaber to Finn (John Boyega) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford) after Rey (Daisy Ridley) initially rejects it. It has already been reported that Nyong'o's diminutive, ancient Maz had a few of her scenes cut, ...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Leads MTV Movie Awards Noms
Star Wars: The Force Awakens will not be leaving the 25th annual MTV Movie Awards emptied handed. J.J. Abrams' galaxy dominating film leads the pack with 11 nominations, including one for movie of the year. It'll be competing against Avengers: Age of Ultron, Creed, Deadpool, Jurassic World and Straight Outta Compton. That's not all—the principals in The Force Awakens have also been recognized in ...
Disney Reveals Star Wars Parks Experience Concept Art
This past Sunday, Disney offered the first glimpse of the new Star Wars experience set to open at Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney Resort in Orlando and Disneyland in Anaheim. These concept renderings of the themed lands suggest that Disney is going whole hog on the Star Wars parks—manna for fan boys and, if they're built to the level of detail ...
