Picture this. If Disney hadn't bought Lucasfilm when
they did, we would be getting a new Star Wars film starring teenagers. Luckily
Disney did, and worried that Lucas' ideas would lead the franchise down to
prequels territory again, they decided to start fresh with a new writer and a
new set of ideas.
"We've made some departures...exactly the way you
would in any development process," said Lucasfilm President, and producer Kathleen Kennedy on a recent interview
to Vanity Fair. Star Wars: The Force Awakens director, J.J. Abrams also added that "Disney
and Kathy decided they should consider other options," like the Little Miss Sunshine,
and Toy Story 3 writer Michael Arndt, who was brought in to
write the script for The Force Awakens. However, with pre-production getting
nearer and nearer, and with Arndt unable to write the script, Abrams, and
Lawrence Kasdan stepped in just six months before the cameras started rolling.
"There was a ton of ideas and outlines, a lot of
cards on the wall, a lot of writing on whiteboards," Abrams said. "We
didn't have anything. There were a thousand people waiting for answers on
things, and you couldn't tell them anything except 'yeah, that guy's in it.'
That was about it. That was really all we knew," Kasdan added.
Production began with only a draft, which isn't
uncommon in films of this magnitude, and both Abrams and Kasdan plowed on while
still working on story beats, and trying to tap into what made the Original
Trilogy so special.
"...there was a feeling I had not had since the
original trilogy that was so familiar to me and still very possible to tap into
—the sense of being transported to some other place where anything was possible
but that was specific to 'Star Wars' in aesthetic, in history, in design, sound
design, music. It was a very unique and specific world. I could taste and I
could feel it," Abrams said.
As for the result, as
we saw from the teaser and trailer, it will be a mix of the old with the new. "It's
sort of like going to a concert where you want to hear the new stuff they've
written, but you really want to hear some of the old songs. And we're in a
similar kind of thing: we're getting the band back together, and we know that
people are going to want to be reminded of the things they love, but they're
going to expect to have a new experience," Kennedy said.
Source - Vanity Fair
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