I'm sure Disney had their say, but Abrams Kasdan and Arndt wrote the script. And I don't think Disney mandated it take place on a desert planet, have a droid looking for its master with secret information, leave said planet on millennium falcon, have a guy who is basically darth vader, another death star, another death…
"That being the case, this is going to be difficult for some people to hear, but we might as well get it out of the way right now. Sorry folks, but there’s no way that Mara Jade is Rey’s mother.Why am I so sure? There are several reasons, actually, the first being that the Star Wars expanded universe (now known as Star…
They didn't blow it up, they just took out the part that stopped the energy of the sun from destroying itself from within. I really like The Star Killer, but I wish it stuck around longer.
I was kind of hoping they would fail to stop the new death star so it would at least be something different. How many times can you invest all those resources into a super weapon that gets blown up by 5 X-Wings?
that's exactly why he got the job to direct those movies. As a film maker all he does is to imitate/copy. TFA is an engineered effort to remake ANH with different plot. And honestly, the star trek reboot is possibly the worst handling of an IP i've seen on that scale. It's like they didn't even bother to understand what…
I think I'd rank this as the 4th best Star Wars movie after the original trilogy. I have to watch the Ewok specials again but from my memory I'd rank them ahead of the prequels, which I've only seen once each.