Star Wars: The Force Awakens

It’s pretty well known that Steven Spielberg was a major force (h’yuck) in getting J.J. Abrams the assignment directing Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Lucasfilm wanted a director. Spielberg wanted Abrams to get the gig. “I brought J.J.’s name up,” he said in a roundtable interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I thought J.J. would be the best person to direct Episode VII and I called J.J. and said ‘Would you do it if it was offered to you?’” Abrams was initially reluctant (he thought his wife wouldn’t want him to take any more time-consuming franchise gigs), so Spielberg actually took Abrams and his wife Katie out to dinner on Lucasfilm’s behalf, asked Katie if it was cool if J.J. directed Star Wars, and basically made a Love Connection of the whole thing. The rest was history.

Last year, Hasbro released an exclusive figure through Kmart featuring Kylo Ren in a snow-dusted cloak and standing in a icy base. We'd seen the scene a number of times in the trailers, and it made for a moderately interesting variant of the standard Black Series Kylo. Still, that was released last winter, and we were all left wondering if we'd ever see the second half of the planned set. At the time, many presumed the follow-up figure would be Finn from that same wintery scene. Oh how foolish we all were to believe a trailer would show us the entire movie and spoil one of the greatest moments in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. On May 4, aka Star Wars Day, the diorama will finally be complete when Starkiller Base Rey arrives.

It seems like whenever you turn on the TV or get on the internet the only thing people are talking about is Star Wars (and as of today Steve Harvey). On the first day of the showing, it was reported that the latest sequel in that franchise made $57 million.

I stated a couple weeks ago that Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher had the funniest interview ever on TV. Well it looks like Fisher is back with one of the funniest women ever. I am talking about Ellen DeGeneres.

The most anticipated movie of 2015 has to be Star Wars The Force Awakens. Which is probably no surprise because Star Wars is probably the most popular franchise in movie history. As for myself I have never been too interested in Star Wars but I even have an interest because the antagonist looks bad ass.

I've never been a real big Star Wars fan. It never really appealed to me and I never understood why I disliked it so much, until now.