Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and Disney finally revealed the title for Star Wars 7 as The
Force Awakens. I have all kinds of reactions to the news but there are also reports that
they’ve finished the first teaser trailer and will be posting it before the end of the
So what I’m going to do is breakdown why I think they chose that title in particular
and what it says about the movie itself and the potential release dates for that trailer.
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Starting off with the most obvious things about the title. One, it’s about the Force
not just Jedi or Sith. Some of you might remember the EU novel The unifying force. I don’t
think that’s relevant to the title but it just does a good job of describing the good
and evil schools of practice.
Second, they dropped the “Episode” from the title. It’s just Star Wars The Force
Awakens, it’s not Episode 7 The Force Awakens.
There are a couple of reasons for that, I think it’s great. The only reason we started
using them was to distinguish between the Prequels and the Original Trilogy. When all
those movies were originally released they were always Empire Strikes Back or Attack
of the Clones.
Lucasfilm and Disney are trying to get to the point where they can release at least
one new Star Wars film every year. I think eventually that will turn into two films.
Going back to Episode 7: What does The Force Awakens title say about the action of the
film?
We’ll probably be seeing the beginning of a new Jedi and Sith Order. The force will
awaken inside some of the new characters.
I know a lot of you have already pointed out that technically the force is already awake.
Luke Skywalker is filling in as the Obi Wan Kenobi figure in the movie and we know there
will be some form of Dark Jedi. So just like with the Star Trek reboot, Star Wars is going
to introduce the Force in a new way to a new cast of characters.
Just to clarify though, it’s not a Star Trek scenario. Episode 7 isn’t a reboot.
I’m just referring to the passing of the torch from the original Star Trek movies to
the new cast with Chris Pine. And no, I don’t think that all the original cast will die
before Episode 8 or 9.
There have been a lot of rumors and yes, when they were making the original trilogy, Harrison
Ford lobbied George Lucas to kill off Han Solo. I wouldn’t worry about that too much.
I just feel like based on the kinds of movies JJ Abrams makes, what we’ll see is a transition.
As the movies progress, the story will focus less and less on the original cast.
Which means we need new Jedi Heroes and New Sith Villains. Thus the Awakens title.
There’s also the chance that they could go in a 2001 Space Odyssey route and do a
Star Child type thing where the Force itself plays a role as a really abstract living organism.
So what about the first Trailer. That’s really what we’re all waiting for. Right
now we know that John Williams is writing new original music just for the trailer. Because
of his, shall we say, maturity, he can’t fly to London on a dime. London is where the
film was shot. They just finished shooting with the actors.
Because of that, he’s scheduled to actually record the music for the trailer next week.
Meaning, once he’s done, they can add the music to the trailer and release it anytime
they want.
In the past the first star wars trailers dropped in November and December, but all those movies
were released in April and May. Because Episode 7 is a december release it’s rumored that
they’ll go ahead and release the first teaser a year out instead of 7 months like in the
past.
Because Disney’s only big movie in december is Into the Woods and that’s Christmas Day.
They could attach the teaser to that.
I think it’s possible they could go the Marvel route and do their own big separate
press event where they unveil it. Either way, plan on a very short teaser between December
16th and the 23rd. Those are just Tuesday’s and new trailers typically come on Tuesdays.
I think the first full trailer will be attached to Avengers 2.
Just to clarify, I think the teaser will be really short, whatever it is they’re releasing
at the end of the year. Like less than a minute of footage. It will probably just be music
with maybe a Luke Skywalker voice over, like the Ben Kenobi speech from Episode 4. The
speech he first gives luke about what the force is and what it represents.
That just feels like the best possible thing they could do if they’re not going to have
scenes from the movie in it.
The first official trailer will be about 2 and a half minutes, it will have dialogue,
it will have actual scenes from the movie. But we’ll have to wait to Avengers 2 to
see that probably.
Let me know what you think, Regardless of when it drops what do you think is
going to be in that first teaser trailer.
Is it going to be just voice over or do you think we’ll see actual footage
from
the movie.
JJ Abrams has really unusual creative ways of revealing information about his movies.
Like with the cryptic Star Wars pictures addressing all the leaks. I have no doubt that he’ll
do something similar when they get ready to post footage.
Of all the things I’m looking forward to it’s actually the prospect of all the different
directors working on
the films.
First off, my favorite is Empire Strikes Back, very common choice. It’s one of the few
films NOT directed by George Lucas.
For all these new films. Rian Johnson is actually directing the second one. So right away everyone
go watch Brick and Looper again. And all the spinoff movies will have different directors.
They’re picking lesser non-mega directors like Spielberg and JJ Abrams for future films
because these newer people have interesting new takes on the characters and the universe.
That’s something to get excited about. A Star Wars movie that doesn’t look like any
Star Wars movie you’ve ever seen before without completely throwing away the things
that made you fall in love with it in the first place.
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