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J.J. Abrams offers up some details on Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Kylo Ren

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Earlier today Entertainment Weekly offered up some new images from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, including a couple of shots of Adam Driver’s lightsaber-weilding villain Kylo Ren. Now, speaking to the site, director J.J. Abrams has offered up a few intriguing details about the latest bad guy to menace the galaxy far, far away. “The […]

J.J. Abrams has toned down the Original Trilogy references in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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When J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan took over writing duties from Michael Arndt on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it was said that one of the reasons for the rewrite was that Abrams wanted to shift some of the focus back to the characters of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia, as opposed to […]

SPOILERS: J.J. Abrams reveals how he lured a legend back for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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Please treat this warning with the same importance you would apply to reading a Star Wars crawl: This story contains HUGE SPOILERS for The Rise of Skywalker… Now that the discourse dust is beginning to settle on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, maybe we can focus on some of the more positive elements of […]

Harrison Ford on returning as Han Solo in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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Harrison Ford has publicly stated since the Original Trilogy that he was keen for Han Solo to die for the benefit of the overall Skywalker Saga, and the actor finally got his wish at the hands of Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. However, as a surprise to everyone, Ford made a small […]

J.J. Abrams reveals Mark Hamill’s role in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens table read

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After watching Star Wars: The Force Awakens, you were probably left wondering why Lucasfilm bothered to bring Mark Hamill in for the cast table read when his character Luke Skywalker had no lines in the movie. Well, as you’d expect with a J.J. Abrams movie, it was partly to retain the movie’s secrets, but the director […]

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot to produce Justice League Dark movie and TV projects

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Having recently signed a major deal with Warner Media, Deadline is reporting that J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot productions is turning its attention to the DC universe – or more specifically, the supernatural side of the DC universe – and is actively developing a number of film and television projects based around Justice League Dark. The […]

J.J. Abrams discusses Harrison Ford’s reaction to the Star Wars: The Force Awakens finale

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Warning for those who’ve been living under a rock: Spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens follow… He’d been waiting for it since before Return of the Jedi, and after more than three decades of waiting Harrison Ford finally got his wish this past December with the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Han Solo […]

Ridley Scott to receive VES Lifetime Achievement Award

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While J.J. Abrams (Star Trek) will be lauded with the VES Visionary Award, British filmmaker-producer Ridley Scott will be receiving the VES Lifetime Achievement Award for a career that includes Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Gladiator (2000), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Prometheus (2012) and the forthcoming Biblical epic Exodus: Gods & Kings (2014). “Ridley Scott […]

J.J. Abrams on leaving questions unanswered in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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Despite being billed as the final chapter of the 42-year-long Skywalker Saga, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker certainly left a number of questions unanswered – not least how Emperor Palpatine managed to survive (or return from) his ‘death’ in Return of the Jedi. While many of these will be answered in supplementary material such […]