When it comes to secrets, J.J.
Abrams is on a league of his own, and we shouldn’t expect that to change when
it comes to the upcoming Star Wars: Episode
VII. This time however it seems that it’s not the director pushing for extreme secrecy,
but Disney. He says that he never experienced this level of secrecy.
“Are you kidding me? My god. My
office… I’m working on the Star Wars script today and the people in my office
have covered up all my windows with black paper. I guess they wanted to make
sure no one could see what I was doing… It seems rather extreme.”
In trying to control everything
and not letting anything that isn’t studio approved out, Disney is certainly
going the extra mile to protect their work from ending up online, where nowadays
a film can be “made or broke.”
J.J. Abrams already admitted that
he regretted all the secrecy or lack off, about Benedict Cumberbatch’s
character in Star Trek Into Darkness, so now he says that he won’t be pulling
the same trick again.
“We were trying to preserve the unexpected for
the audience, but it came across as if we were trying to be too clever… Star
Wars is in every way a different animal. It’s always been a more open,
fan-engaged universe than I’ve been used to, so I’m sure there’ll be some sort
of compromise. But it feels to me like there’s a purity in not knowing every
little thing.”
“We’re living in a moment of
instant information and a sense of entitlement to that information… But I think
it’s nice to remember that there’s nothing wrong with a sense of anticipation.”
Although right, J.J. Abrams and
Disney need to remember that keeping every single card close to the chest can
sometimes backfire.
Star Wars: Episode VII opens on
December 18th, 2015.
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