![]() When the announcement for Star Wars: The Force Awakens was made it created huge anticipation among fans, media and critics all trying to get an exclusive on the production. Filming also took place at Skellig Michael, an island off the coast of County Kerry, Ireland along with the Krafla volcano in Iceland, Rub’ al Khali desert in Abu Dhabi, New Mexico and Bad Robot in Santa Monica, California in the USA. Abrams said, Ford’s ankle “went to a 90-degree angle” and forced production to be suspended for two weeks. During filming at Pinewood Harrison Ford suffered a fracture to his leg after a hydraulic door on the Millennium Falcon set fell on him. Principal photography commenced on May 2014 and was based at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England. John Williams who was the film scores composer also returned to the film series. He co-wrote of the original trilogy films The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Return of the Jedi in 1983. All was not lost from the original trilogy as Lawrence Kasdan worked on the screenplay. ![]() Marking a break in the creative control by the original creator, George Lucas although he did serve as a creative consultant during the film’s early production. The Force Awakens is the first film made following the acquisition of Lucasfilms by Walt Disney Studios in October 2012. They are thrown into the middle of a battle between the Resistance, led by veterans of the Rebel Alliance and Kylo Ren and his daunting legions of the First Order, a successor organisation to the Galactic Empire. The storyline is set three decades after Return of the Jedi and follows Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron’s search for Luke Skywalker. The Force Awakens sees the return of some original actors from the original Star Wars films Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew alongside Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson and Max von Sydow. Abrams and Michael Arndt based on the characters created by George Lucas. The screenplay was co-written by Lawrence Kasdan, J. Abrams who co-produced the film with Kathleen Kennedy and Bryan Burk. I guess sometimes even genius takes a holiday.Star Wars: The Force Awakens (also known as Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens) is a 2015 film directed by J. Nolan films are something I always look forward to, as they are different and both entertain me and make me think, but in this case, I was just beyond bored and fed up with the whole thing. The story moves very slowly and at times is more than somewhat confusing, not to mention at nearly three hours long, it's a challenge to sit through to even reach his famous twist at the end. As for the rest of the film, it's usually Nolan's genius that makes the film unique and special, but in this instance he was too smart for his own good. ![]() Based on some of the poor choices he made in his younger years, he has a bad rep among critics, but the fact is that he's always fun to watch, and is one of the most intense actors out there today. Matthew McConaughey stars and as is the case with most of his films, he's terrific. Time and gravity are different concepts in different regions of space, and the effects on the crew, who had hoped to one day see their families again, diminish with each passing day. Once again, Humans have finally destroyed Earth and have gone looking for a new home, but outside our solar system, things are much different than they appear. This film does have a great twist in the end and some terrific special effects, but beyond that it is one of the longest and slowest moving films I've seen in years. In his latest film, Interstellar, Nolan tackles the concept of time and how different it is from what we perceive. The master of twists and deception made Batman real, showed us how dreams work in Inception, and brought us inside the dangerous world of magic in the Presitige. Christopher Nolan is the smartest writer/director in Hollywood, so smart that a lot of people claim his films are over their heads.
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