Fear, design, or just pure luck, J.J. Abrams' Star
Wars: The Force Awakens will face almost no competition when it opens on
December 18. The nearest "threats" are the new Bond film Spectre on
November 6, and the final installment in The Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger
Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 on November 20.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, co-writer Lawrence Kasdan
offered a quick update on the highly anticipated film, and revealed that they
are hoping to stay away from an unfortunate mainstay in most blockbusters,
where they throw a CGI fest at audiences in the last portion of the film.
This new movie, first of all, it’s turning out really
great. J.J. directed it so beautifully, and it’s so exhilarating and
everything. It’s a big movie. It’s full of wonderful stuff, incident and character
stuff and jokes and effects. One of the things that we always refocus on from
the get-go was that it not be one of these very long, bloated blockbusters. A
lot of very entertaining movies lately are too long. In the last 20 minutes,
you think, why isn’t this over? We didn’t want to make a movie like that. I
mean, we were really aiming to have it be—when it’s over you’ll say, ‘I wish
there’s more.’ Or, ‘Wait, is it over?’ Because how rarely you get that feeling
nowadays, and I think we’re headed there. But it means that there will be
constant critical looking at it from now to the end, saying, ‘Do we need this?
Do we need that? Is it better if this comes out, even though we love it?’ Killing
your darlings.
As for the fan favorite character, he isn't in this
movie says Kasdan, but that doesn't mean he won't eventually appear.
Right now, there’s no Lando Calrissian in this movie. But Lando I don’t
think is finished in any way, shape, or form.
Source - Vanity Fair
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