New TFA Trailer REVEALED!

By: David Sanchez

Earlier this morning, Star Wars fans in Japan (and worldwide) were treated to a surprise in the form of a new trailer for The Force Awakens!

J.J. Abrams has surprised us once again. In an interview with Extra late last month,  he said, "There will be commercials to come, but no more trailers." 

It seems as though J.J. had more up his sleeve than we originally thought. While we think J.J. was lying about there being no more trailers, that could have been "from a certain point of view." He could have been talking about trailers for the U.S. alone, but we will never know. 

Star Wars: The Force Awakens releases December 18th!

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J.J Confirms Star Wars Trailers Are Done But Commercials Are In The Works

By: Justin Marsh

If you were hoping for a more revealing trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, you're out of luck. 

Today, J.J told the Star Wars fans that we're not only really waiting for one thing - The film.

He then went on to say: "There will be commercials to come, but no more trailers."

It's pretty interesting to see this as most of the other Star Wars films had more trailers, highest ranking would be Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. More or less a great marketing approach for this new installment. But in all other words to say, there you have it! Sit back, watch for those commercials to hit and get ready for the ride of a lifetime.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters December 18, 2015.

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In Depth Look: J.J Abrams Remembers The First Star Wars

By: Cannon Adams

A week ago, director J.J Abrams had a brief moment at the D23 Expo in Anaheim California with EntertainmentWeekly of the time when he first saw Star Wars when he was 11 years old. J.J Abrams comments this to EW:

“It didn’t look like anything I had ever seen,” he says. “It looked real, and it was a combination of everything great: It was really funny; it was romantic; it was sweeping and epic; it was incredibly intimate; it had an amazing message and impact. It was an incredibly powerful experience.”

During the time Abrams was filming the 2009 reboot of Star Trek, Abrams was always a long time fan of Star Wars. Abrams also tells EW:

 George Lucas’ landmark film was the first movie to show him what the medium was capable of contributing to culture. “To get to play in that playground at all is an absolute honor,” he says.

We just have about 4 months total to see the long time fan show his version of the masterpiece of Star Wars on December 18th. 

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Star Wars The Force Awakens More Practical Than CGI

By: Cannon Adams

What is fake and what is real? Do we notice the difference between what is CGI and practical effects? The answer to that question is yes. Does it bring the feel of realism and make us believe the events happened? The answer to that is no. J.J Abrams wanted Star Wars The Force Awakens to be real to the fans of the franchise and wanted to bring back practical sets to the franchise that we experienced in the Original Trilogy. Now the Original Trilogy yes did have some CGI, but not so much. J.J Abrams took Star Wars back to its old roots of practical sets only using 28 out of 357 scenes for CGI. Unlike the Prequel Trilogy using CGI in almost every single scene, we didn't believe in the Prequel Trilogy like we did of the Original Trilogy. Maybe that is one of the reasons why fans dislike the Prequel Trilogy but sadly those won't go away so we are stuck with them no matter what.

J.J Abrams told this to Collider in this little interview:

“There are obviously an enormous amount of CG effects in the film, and I can’t wait for you to see the combination,” Abrams told Collider. “But it was very important … that the film have a tangible, sort of authentic quality that you believed that these things were actually happening in a real space with real sunlight – if it was an exterior scene – or [that] we could build a big portion of a scene and not have anything be blue screen …”

But of course some of these scenes for the movie has to involve CGI since we cannot build an actual star destroyer and go into space and actually land in it and such (which would be fantastic) CGI had to be involved for space scenes and some in planet scenes. But such as to ground explosions and the tie fighter crashing on the desert, those are practical sets. So is J.J Abrams going about this the right way? The answer to that question is a definite yes because as we all know Star Wars was originally practical effects sets over CGI and J.J Abrams is a big fan of the Original Trilogy and not a big fan of the Prequel Trilogy so we will finally after 32 years since Return of the Jedi, we get the Original Trilogy feel back. 

Is anyone comfortable now about The Force Awakens using only 28 CGI scenes out of 357? I can only assume and hope that we all say yes to that question and we can stop holding our breathes on this topic. We have 128 days left to go for December 18th so lets hope we see a couple more trailers in the coming months.

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