It was nominated for five awards at the 88th Academy Awards, and received numerous other accolades. The film grossed $2 billion worldwide, breaking various box office records and becoming the highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada, the highest-grossing film of 2015, and the third-highest-grossing film at the time of its release. It was positively received by critics, who found it an action-packed film with the mix of new and familiar actors capturing the nostalgia of the original trilogy and giving the franchise new energy. The Force Awakens premiered in Los Angeles on December 14, 2015, and was released in the United States on December 18. On a budget of $306–447 million, it is currently the most expensive film ever made. Filming took place on sets at Pinewood Studios in England, and on location mainly in Abu Dhabi, Iceland, and Ireland. Principal photography began in April 2014 and concluded the following November. John Williams, composer for the previous episodic films, returned to compose the score. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan, co-writer of the original trilogy films The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi, rewrote an initial script by Michael Arndt. The Force Awakens was produced by Abrams, his longtime collaborator Bryan Burk, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. The film is the first Star Wars film to not extensively involve franchise creator George Lucas, who only served as a creative consultant in the early stages of production. The film was announced after The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Lucasfilm in October 2012. The ensemble cast includes Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Max von Sydow. Set thirty years after Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens follows Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, and Han Solo's search for Luke Skywalker and their fight in the Resistance, led by General Leia Organa and veterans of the Rebel Alliance, against Kylo Ren and the First Order, a successor to the Galactic Empire.
The sequel to Return of the Jedi (1983), it is the seventh film in the " Skywalker Saga". In related Star Wars news, John Cho recently spoke up about the online abuse The Last Jedi actress Kelly Marie Tran received, describing it as “tremendously sad.Star Wars: The Force Awakens (also known as Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens) is a 2015 American epic space opera film produced, co-written, and directed by J. J. My black face is going to be running throughout that whole thing.” It don’t matter how small you want to put someone on the poster, a lot of people are going to see Star Wars. “For me, I was like, “it’s whatever.,”” he said. That’s how you see things based on how much melanin is in someone’s skin.”īoyega was instead confident that the success of Star Wars would make the controversy redundant. The 26-year-old actor said the response was, “you stupid arse racist people, man, who are just operating on 0.1% of your brain power. “A lot of people were showing me this poster and I remember looking at it and they made me tiny in it. “This poster in China was a big thing that only got in to my attention through social media,” Boyega said. Boyega first became aware of the poster through social media. However the poster did not really bother the for British actor. In video clip posted by the BBC, John Boyega was asked about the controversial “racist” poster in China for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.Ĭompared to western posters for the film, Chinese posters presented Boyega much smaller. "My black face is going to be running throughout that whole thing" Pacific Rim star John Boyega has discussed the controversy surrounding the Chinese Star Wars poster that was deemed “racist.”
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