![]() ![]() The Force Awakens will also feature a who's who of up-and-coming actors, including Adam Driver ( Girls), Gwendoline Christie ( Game of Thrones), Lupita Nyong'o ( 12 Years a Slave), and Domhnall Gleeson ( About Time), as well as the old master Max von Sydow, who's perhaps best known to American audiences as the elderly priest Father Merrin in The Exorcist. He's most famous for his work in independent film, where he played the lead roles in Inside Llewyn Davis and A Most Violent Year, and his supporting turn in the indie sci-fi movie Ex Machina earned raves in the spring of 2015. Oscar Isaac : One of the best actors working right now, Isaac completes The Force Awakens' central trio of new characters. He'll be playing a stormtrooper named Finn. He's played important parts in the alien invasion flick Attack the Block and the 24 miniseries, but he's largely unknown. John Boyega : Though he's slightly more recognizable than Ridley, Boyega is also a relative newcomer. (See also: Evangeline Lilly on Lost.) Ridley plays a character named Rey. Abrams's preference for using little-known actresses as the leads of his projects. The new series of films will also feature a number of other actors, led by:ĭaisy Ridley : An almost unknown British actress, Ridley is the female lead in The Force Awakens and reflects director J. But both of those characters (along with the tiny droid R2D2) appeared at least briefly in the prequel trilogy, so their involvement is of less immediate significance than the presence of Hamill, Fisher, and Ford. They will be joined by several of the original films' other players, like Peter Mayhew as the gigantic, furry Wookie Chewbacca and Anthony Daniels as the rigidly mannered robot C-3PO. This is the first time any of the three will have played one of these characters since 1983, and excitement is palpable. The cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens unites familiar faces with brand new onesĪlmost all of the buzz around the cast of The Force Awakens has centered on the return of Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford to the roles of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia Organa, and Han Solo, the characters they played in the original trilogy of Star Wars films released in the '70s and '80s. Lucas had wanted for ages to escape the burden of Star Wars, and his decision to sell gave Disney a chance to own one of the most recognizable brands out there.ĭisney immediately put a new trilogy of films into production, and even if the new films (episodes VII through IX) won't be what Lucas once envisioned (as he wanted to make a trilogy of films centered on teenage characters), they will bring the saga to nine films in total.Īnd beyond that, Disney is also making films based on tertiary Star Wars characters and other corners of the franchise's universe, trying to expand what had been an ongoing film series into something closer to its Marvel Cinematic Universe - a big collection of standalone films that are, nonetheless, part of the same general story and setting. The purchase, though completely unexpected, made sense for both companies. Though George Lucas, the man behind the first six chapters of the Star Wars franchise, had always talked about making nine films in total, the completion of that plan, as of 2005, seemed unlikely.īut in 2012, Lucas sold his company, Lucasfilm - along with the rights to all the Star Wars characters - to Disney, which was increasingly centering its business strategy on recognizable, marketable brands, like Pixar, Marvel, and its gigantic number of animated princesses. For all intents and purposes, it seemed as if the Star Wars saga was over after the 2005 release of the final installment of the prequel trilogy, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. And when you consider that three of those movies were released in 1977, 1980, and 1983, when international box office earnings were far less important to a studio's bottom line, the accomplishment becomes all the more impressive.īut there's another answer here, too. The six current films in the franchise have grossed more than $4.5 billion worldwide. Simply put, Star Wars is one of the few cultural phenomena that almost everybody in the movie-going world is at least somewhat familiar with. The obvious answer for the impending existence of this film is also largely the correct one: money. The road that leads to Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens is a curious one, marked both by Hollywood business as usual and an acquisition that seemingly no one who covers the film industry saw coming. Disney is making a new Star Wars movie - without George Lucas Here's everything we know about the film so far. The latest entry in the Star Wars canon hits theaters December 18, 2015. ![]()
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