Kylo Ren I Feel It Again

"At that place's been an enkindling. Have you felt it?"

―Supreme Leader Snoke — Heed (file info) ^[src]

Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens , marketed as Star Wars: The Force Awakens , is a 2015 film directed by J.J. Abrams; co-written past Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan, and Michael Arndt; and produced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Bad Robot Productions. Information technology is the first office of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. The film stars Harrison Ford, Marker Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, and Peter Mayhew reprising their original roles. The original actors are joined by a host of new actors including Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, and Oscar Isaac.

The story begins thirty years later the events of Star Wars: Episode 6 Return of the Jedi. The First Society has risen from the ashes of the Galactic Empire and is opposed past General Leia Organa and the Resistance, both of which seek to find the missing Jedi Principal Luke Skywalker. In the midst of this search, new heroes ascent in the course of Rey, a 19 year-old girl and a Force-sensitive scavenger from Jakku; Finn, a stormtrooper who defected from the Start Order; and Poe Dameron, the best pilot in the Resistance. They are aided by Han Solo in their search for Skywalker and their mission to destroy the Offset Order'southward new superweapon, Starkiller Base, which targets the New Commonwealth and the Resistance for destruction. They are opposed by villains such as Kylo Ren, a dark warrior with a mysterious past; and General Armitage Hux, the commander of Starkiller Base.

Despite initially challenge that the Star Wars story ended with the redemption of Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi, and afterwards spending years refuting speculation that in that location would be another film, Star Wars creator George Lucas began work on Episode VII in 2011 in lodge to increase the value of Lucasfilm before he sold it to The Walt Disney Company, although Disney would subsequently elect to not use Lucas' story. The acquisition was finalized on Oct xxx, 2012. Disney and Lucasfilm officially announced Episode 7 and the sequel trilogy the same day. Lucasfilm afterwards announced that the moving picture would be an original story non appreciative to the continuity of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, which was rebranded as the non-canon Star Wars Legends.

The Force Awakens was released on December 17, 2015 in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Latin America, and Asian countries; Dec xviii, 2015 in North America; and January nine, 2016 in China. Some North American theaters offered special limited advance showings on the evening of December 17th rather than the traditional midnight showing. The picture show received widespread critical praise upon its release and was a massive box office success, becoming the highest grossing film of all time in N America when not adjusted for aggrandizement. Worldwide, the flick was the third highest-grossing motion-picture show of all fourth dimension at the time of its release (behind Avatar and Titanic). It is currently the fourth highest-grossing picture show of all fourth dimension (behind Avengers: Endgame, Avatar and Titanic).

Contents

• 1 Opening crawl
• 2 Synopsis
  • two.1 Assault on Tuanul
  • two.2 Return to the Finalizer
  • 2.3 Run into with the scavenger
  • two.4 Escape from the Finalizer
  • 2.5 Escape from Jakku
  • 2.6 Reunited with the Falcon
  • 2.vii Skirmish aboard the Eravana
  • 2.eight Meeting with the Supreme Leader
  • 2.ix Journeying to Takodana
  • 2.10 The conflict within
  • 2.11 A call from the Force
  • 2.12 Hosnian Calamity
  • 2.13 Battle of Takodana
  • 2.14 Reunited at the Resistance Base of operations
  • 2.fifteen Rey's capture
  • two.xvi Battle of Starkiller Base
  • 2.17 Locating Luke Skywalker
• 3 Evolution
  • 3.ane Writing
  • 3.2 Production
  • 3.3 Design
  • iii.4 Music
• 4 Release
  • 4.1 Charity
  • four.2 Merchandising
  • 4.3 Dwelling house media
• 5 Reception
• half dozen Media
  • half dozen.1 Poster gallery
  • 6.2 Cover gallery
    • half-dozen.two.1 North American releases
    • 6.two.2 International releases
• 7 Credits
• viii Appearances
• 9 Sources
• x Notes and references
• 11 External links

Opening crawl [ ]

Episode VII THE Force AWAKENS Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire and volition not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed. With the support of the Republic, General Leia Organa leads a brave RESISTANCE. She is desperate to find her brother Luke and proceeds his help in restoring peace and justice to the galaxy. Leia has sent her nigh daring pilot on a secret mission to Jakku, where an onetime ally has discovered a clue to Luke's whereabouts....

Synopsis [ ]

Assail on Tuanul [ ]

"We got company."

―Poe Dameron ^[src]

Flametroopers open burn down on the village of Tuanul.

Approximately thirty years afterwards the destruction of the second Death Star, Luke Skywalker, the last known surviving Jedi Master has disappeared. Both the Outset Club, a successor to the fallen Galactic Empire, and the Resistance, a military forcefulness backed past the New Democracy led by Luke'due south twin sis, General Leia Organa, scour the galaxy in an endeavor to notice him.

Leia sends Resistance pilot Poe Dameron on a secret mission to the hamlet of Tuanul on the desert planet Jakku, to meet with village elder Lor San Tekka, who has obtained a map to Luke Skywalker's location. During the meeting, Kickoff Order stormtroopers nether the command of Kylo Ren and Captain Phasma attack the village. Poe and his astromech droid BB-8 try to flee in their T-70 X-wing starfighter, but a pair of stormtroopers disable the engines with their blasters. With no alternative, Poe gives the map to BB-8 and orders the BB unit to flee. Poe remains behind to cover BB-8's escape.

After stormtrooper FN-2187 is deployed, FN-2003 is hitting with blaster fire by Poe. FN-2187 goes to assist his squadmate, but FN-2003'south wound proves fatal, and in his final moments, FN-2003 smears his blood on FN-2187's helmet before dying, deeply affecting FN-2187. After securing the area, the remaining villagers are herded into the town square. Tekka is captured and brought before Kylo Ren, who demands to know where the map leading to Luke is. Tekka responds that he knows who Ren used to be, and chides Ren that he cannot escape his real identity. Growing impatient, Ren kills Tekka past striking him downward with his lightsaber.

Poe takes a shot at Ren from encompass, just Ren casually stops the equalizer bolt in mid-air with the Force. Poe is captured, and Ren decides to interrogate him further back on their ship. Before leaving, Phasma asks what to do with the crowd of convict villagers, and Ren orders them all slaughtered. Stormtrooper FN-2187 is horrified as the massacre plays out in front of him, remaining motionless and not firing his weapon.

Render to the Finalizer [ ]

"The Resistance volition not be intimidated by you!"

―Poe Dameron to Kylo Ren ^[src]

Kylo Ren probes Poe Dameron for information virtually the map.

Returning to the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Finalizer, FN-2187 is overwhelmed with emotions because of the death of his squadmate and the massacre of the villagers. He ducks inside an empty shuttle to have his helmet off, animate heavily, but Phasma notices him and tells him to submit his blaster for inspection, having earlier noticed that he did not fire a shot. Knowing he would be punished and re-evaluated for not firing on the villagers, and with his faith in the First Club severely shaken, he decides to desert. Meanwhile, later on failed attempts of torturing Poe for vital information about the map of Luke Skywalker'due south location, Ren uses his heed probe Force power to pry the information from Poe's mind. Ren learns that the map is located inside a BB series droid that fled the village, and informs General Armitage Hux of the new information.

Encounter with the scavenger [ ]

"Classified. Really? Me too. Big hole-and-corner."

―Rey to BB-eight ^[src]

Rey encounters BB-viii in the deserts of Jakku.

Elsewhere on Jakku, a scavenger named Rey traverses the corridors of a downed Regal II-class Star Destroyer at the Graveyard of Giants. Scavenging through the Imperial Star Destroyer, she finds a valuable piece of salvage and drops it in her satchel. Rey heads to Niima Outpost, and hauls the sack of salvage throughout the town. She then goes to Unkar Plutt to commutation her scraps for foodstuff, and he offers her a quarter portion for her salvage. Afterwards taking the foodstuff, Rey heads to her dwelling house, a downed AT-AT, and prepares a meal for herself. Later on finishing her repast, she watches a starship depart from the planet and and then notices a distant sound. She immediately runs off with her quarterstaff to investigate.

There, she encounters BB-8 struggling confronting being captured by a greenish-skinned humanoid scavenger named Teedo. She frees the droid and gives it directions to Niima Outpost and sends it on its way, simply BB-8 insists on traveling with her. Rey goes to Unkar Plutt to once more exchange her salve for foodstuff, and the Crolute offers to purchase BB-eight for sixty food portions; while tempted, Rey declines the offer. Plutt then sends two thugs to steal BB-eight.

Escape from the Finalizer [ ]

"You lot do exactly as I say and I can get you out of here."

―FN-2187 to Poe Dameron ^[src]

FN-2187 and Poe Dameron walk through the halls of the Finalizer to escape.

Needing a pilot to escape, FN-2187 frees the captured Poe Dameron from his cell, and the two steal a TIE/sf fighter. FN-2187 mans the guns, killing several of his former comrades in the hangar, then disables the Finalizer 's turbolasers on the outside of the vessel. During the escape, Dameron asks the stormtrooper his proper noun, to which he explains that he has been raised from birth to exist a stormtrooper, and the serial number "FN-2187" is the only designation he has ever had. Non content with calling a man a number, Dameron names the trooper "Finn", from the FN in his name. Finn likes the proper name, and goes on to use information technology. Dameron also tells him that the map vital to the Resistance was located inside his astromech droid. Earlier they can continue their conversation and escape, the Necktie is hit past a missile fired from the Finalizer, sending it spiraling towards the planet below.

Phasma reveals to Hux that this was FN-2187's first offense of non-conformity. A technician then informs Hux that the TIE fighter was projected to crash on Goazon Badlands, a canyon zone on Jakku. Realizing that Poe and Finn were going later on BB-viii, Hux sends out a squadron of search teams to the expanse.

Escape from Jakku [ ]

""What almost that ship?"
"That one's garbage!""

―Finn and Rey almost the Millennium Falcon ^[src]

Finn and Rey observe nearby Stormtroopers that are looking for BB-8.

Finn and Dameron eject from the TIE soon before it crashes, each landing separately some distance from the wreckage. Making his manner to the crash, Finn finds Poe's jacket, merely no other sign of the man, and the fighter sinks into the sand. Believing Dameron to exist dead, Finn begins wandering through the desert, discarding his stormtrooper armor along the way and eventually arriving at the nearest settlement, thirsting for h2o.

While Finn staggers to an brute trough to desperately slake his thirst, he notices thugs attempting to steal a BB unit droid, which Finn recognizes as BB-viii, from a woman, Rey, but she fends them off with her staff. BB-8 notices Finn, wearing his main Dameron'south jacket, prompting Rey to hunt after him. Rey attacks Finn, believing him to be a thief. Finn explains that he had met and helped Poe escape the Resurgent Star Destroyer, but that Dameron had apparently perished during their crash. The Starting time Order tracks Finn to the settlement, and launches an airstrike in attempt to search for BB-8 and the map. Rey, Finn, and BB-8 attempt to flee towards a Quadjumper, but Tie/fo fighters destroy information technology. With only ane option left, the trio manages to escape in the Millennium Falcon. Rey flies it through the Graveyard of Giants, while Finn fires on and destroys the pursuing Tie fighters. With the TIE fighters destroyed, they escape into infinite.

Back aboard the Finalizer, Lieutenant Dopheld Mitaka informs Kylo Ren that the droid escaped on a stolen freighter and that information technology was aided past the deserter FN-2187. Ren activates his lightsaber and lashes out in a rage-fueled tantrum, slashing at an instrument panel uncontrollably. Mitaka tells Ren that they besides appear to have been helped by a local scavenger daughter. Kylo grows even more livid, using the Forcefulness to pull the officer past his throat across the room in order to choke him with his blank hands, and asking him what daughter it was.

Reunited with the Falcon [ ]

"Chewie, nosotros're home."

―Han Solo to Chewbacca ^[src]

Han and Chewie are reunited with the Millennium Falcon once again.

While Finn and Rey gloat their escape from Jakku, the Millennium Falcon breaks down. The send is in major need of repairs, so Finn, Rey and BB-8 begin working to ready information technology. While they are working on repairs, the ship is defenseless in a tractor beam by a freighter. Although they initially believe themselves to be captured by the First Society, they soon meet their real captors: Han Solo and Chewbacca, the quondam owners of the transport. Upon boarding their old vessel, Han and Chewie get virtually inspecting their ship and find the two stowaways, Rey and Finn, who he assumes were the thieves that had stolen the Falcon. When Rey and Finn explain that they were going to take a droid named BB-8 to the Resistance because it has a map that would reveal Luke's location, Han and Chewie hold to help them.

Skirmish aboard the Eravana [ ]

"Your game is old. There's no 1 in the galaxy left for you lot to swindle."

―Bala-Tik to Han Solo ^[src]

Han attempts to talk his way out of a confrontation between two gangs.

Unfortunately, Han's freighter, the Eravana, is boarded past two notorious criminal factions, the Guavian Decease Gang and Kanjiklub, both of whom want their money dorsum from Solo. Not wanting Rey and Finn to be involved, Han hides both of them in the lower corridors of the freighter while he and Chewie go encounter with the criminals, with BB-8 accompanying them. Han tries just fails to convince both parties that he would gear up things eventually, with the Guavian Death Gang negotiator, Bala-Tik, recognizing the BB-8 astromech droid from a Showtime Social club bounty placed on it. They demand that Han mitt over the droid and any stowaways he might take on board. Every bit the scuffle continues, Rey accidentally releases iii rathtars. The rathtars provide a distraction for Han and Chewie to escape, but i catches Finn and drags him around the freighter. Rey finds a control panel and shuts a blast door on the rathtar, freeing Finn. The two join Han and Chewie and successfully jump to hyperspace in the Falcon. Bala-Tik then orders his men to inform the First Club that Han Solo and the BB unit are aboard the ship.

Meeting with the Supreme Leader [ ]

"Our strategy must at present modify."

―Snoke to General Armitage Hux ^[src]

Kylo Ren and Supreme Leader Snoke discuss the recent turn of events.

At Starkiller Base of operations, a planet converted into a superweapon, powered by draining the free energy of a star, and capable of destroying star systems, Kylo Ren and Full general Hux are summoned by Supreme Leader Snoke, who appears as a large remote hologram projection. Hux suggests using the Starkiller superweapon to destroy the government of the New Commonwealth and the Resistance, and Snoke grants him the permission to do then. Snoke reveals to Ren that the astromech droid containing the map now resides in the Millennium Falcon - along with his father, Han Solo. Ren insists that his father means cypher to him, and with Snoke's training, he would not be seduced to the low-cal side of the Force.

Journeying to Takodana [ ]

"Want to go BB-8 to the Resistance? Maz Kanata is our best bet."

―Han Solo to Finn and Rey ^[src]

Han, Rey, Finn, and BB-8 arrive at Maz Kanata's castle.

During the travel in hyperspace, the Falcon experiences a problem with its hyperdrive, merely Rey demonstrates her cognition of ships past bypassing the compressor and fixing the issue. Meanwhile, Finn attempts to bandage Chewie's arm, which was wounded while fighting on the Eravana. After fixing the transport, Han questions Finn and Rey, wondering why they are fugitives. Rey explains that the First Order is afterward the map located inside BB-eight and that Finn is with the Resistance.

After BB-8 displays a projection of the map, Han explains that subsequently Luke disappeared, at that place were many parties that went searching for him. Luke had tried to rebuild the Jedi Order, merely an apprentice of his turned to the dark side, destroying all that Luke had built and killing the other padawans that Luke had trained. Feeling responsible and blaming himself for the failure, Luke went into exile. Han also explains that he heard rumors that Luke went searching for the first Jedi Temple.

Solo explains that he was able to find the Millennium Falcon before long after information technology entered space because he and Chewbacca were scanning for its signature. This was also why the criminal gangs were able to rail it downward so quickly, and meant the First Order could track it as well. In order to bring BB-eight to the Resistance, they needed to switch to a make clean ship, which Han says he tin obtain from an one-time friend.

Solo takes Rey, Finn, and BB-8 to the planet Takodana to meet with Maz Kanata at her castle. Han says that she has maintained her castle for over a thousand years, where she runs a bustling cantina. Unbeknownst to all, spies from unlike sides take detect of the group. GA-97 alerts the Resistance that the BB unit has been located, while Bazine Netal informs the First Club of the same.

The conflict within [ ]

"Forgive me. I feel it again... the pull to the light. Supreme Leader senses it. Show me over again, the power of the darkness, and I volition permit nothing stand in our way. Show me, Grandfather, and I will cease what you lot started."

―Kylo Ren to Darth Vader's helmet — Listen (file info) ^[src]

Kylo Ren seeks guidance from his grandfather, Darth Vader.

Attempting to seek guidance from his grandfather, Darth Vader, Kylo Ren sits quietly in his meditation sleeping room. In front of him is the burned helmet of Vader, recovered from the funeral pyre on Endor. With the re-emergence of his begetter and Snoke'due south orders to impale him, Kylo feels an internal struggle within himself. He reveals to Vader'southward burned helmet that the calorie-free is pulling him in again and that even Snoke could sense it. He and then asks his grandfather to show him the ability of the darkness over again, to pull him dorsum to the dark side of the Force and help him overcome his future trials.

A call from the Forcefulness [ ]

"Rey... these are your outset steps."

―The voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi during Rey'due south vision ^[src]

Han and Chewie speak with Maz. Finn arranges with Sidon Ithano and his first mate Quiggold that he will work as payment if they will wing him to the Outer Rim. Rey implores Finn non to leave, but instead to assistance her discover the Resistance. Finn, however, insists on leaving, and that there is no way to defeat the First Guild. He besides admits that he lied about being in the Resistance. He tells his story that he was a stormtrooper in the First Gild. He had deserted afterwards his outset battle considering he didn't want to kill unarmed villagers, for the Start Order.

After Finn leaves, Rey hears the screaming of a young girl. She follows the screams. She descends deeper and enters a chamber that contains many relics from the past. The Forcefulness calls her to Maz's curio box, an aboriginal Wroshyr wood breast. Within information technology, she finds the lightsaber that had previously belonged to Anakin Skywalker and his son Luke.

Luke Skywalker and R2-D2 every bit seen in Rey's Force vision.

Upon touching the lightsaber, she receives a serial of visions. Rey sees Deject City and sees that at that place Luke duelled Darth Vader. She sees Luke placing his metallic hand on top of R2-D2 nigh a fire, (presumed to be Luke'due south called-for Jedi temple). Next, she is lying on the ground, in the pelting at dark. Corpses lay around the Knights of Ren who slaughtered these victims. Kylo Ren notices and comes toward her. Earlier he reaches her, she sees herself as a kid yelling, to her parents to stay on Jakku. When her parents were leaving Jakku, Unkar Plutt told her to repose herself. Next, she sees Ren is chasing her in a snowy forest, in the future. Rey pulls herself out of the vision in terror. After the vision, she finds Kanata standing outside the room. Kanata explains to her the lightsaber'south history and that it was calling to her. Kanata then reveals that she herself is Forcefulness-sensitive; although she was never a Jedi, she can merely close her eyes and feel the calorie-free of the Strength within herself, and recognizes that Rey tin can do this besides. Frightened by her vision, Rey runs into the woods with BB-8.

Hosnian Cataclysm [ ]

"Today is the end of the Commonwealth! The end of a regime that acquiesces to disorder!"

―General Armitage Hux ^[src]

General Hux commands the firing of the Starkiller superweapon.

After gaining Supreme Leader Snoke'southward permission to fire the Starkiller superweapon, Hux chooses the Hosnian system, which hosts the capital of the New Republic, Hosnian Prime, besides every bit the New Republic Defence Fleet, in order to demonstrate the power of the Outset Order in an attempt to wipe out the "illegitimate" authorities of the New Republic in i fell swoop. The exam is a success and Hosnian Prime, the electric current elected home of the Galactic Senate, all other astronomical bodies in the system, and an unknown percentage of the New Republic fleet are annihilated by the First Order's superweapon. The destruction of the Hosnian organization is visible from the surface of Takodana. Shaken by the destruction, Finn re-evaluates his option to exit.

Boxing of Takodana [ ]

"I need a weapon!"
"You accept i!"

―Finn and Maz Kanata ^[src]

Rey watches as Maz Kanata's castle is fired upon by the Starting time Social club.

The Offset Club, tipped off to BB-eight's presence, arrives and attacks Maz Kanata's castle. Flying in with TIE fighters and Atmospheric Assault Landers, the First Order swiftly assaults the castle and levels information technology, killing many of its inhabitants. Maz gives Luke'due south old lightsaber to Finn for safekeeping, telling Han she doesn't have time to tell him how she retrieved information technology. BB-8 follows Rey into the forests surrounding the castle, and the Start Order is unable to locate the droid until a stormtrooper officeholder reports to Kylo Ren that the astromech had been sighted in the company of a girl.

During the fighting at the castle, Finn wields the lightsaber to kill 1 stormtrooper before he is overpowered by FN-2199, a old squadmate of Finn's. His life is narrowly saved by Han, who uses Chewbacca'south bowcaster to boom FN-2199 at the terminal second. Han and Chewbacca besides kill multiple stormtroopers, just are captured along with Finn by the Starting time Society. Yet, Resistance T-70 Ten-wings led by Poe Dameron, who is now revealed to nevertheless be alive, arrive to fight the First Order. A trigger-happy dogfight ensues and results in the destruction of many Outset Gild TIE fighters and the deaths of many stormtroopers from X-fly strafing runs.

Rey encounters Kylo Ren at the woods, and fires at him with her blaster pistol, but Kylo restrains her using the Force. Probing her heed, he discovers that she has seen the map he'southward been looking for all this time, and orders the Start Club to pull out, saying they had what they came for and no longer need BB-8. Equally the battle rages on in a higher place the castle, the remaining First Order troops lath their ships and retreat, and Han witnesses his son carrying an unconscious Rey abroad. The Resistance is victorious, freeing Finn, Han, and Chewbacca. Han and Leia are reunited, and Han reveals to Leia that he saw their son.

Reunited at the Resistance Base [ ]

"If Luke couldn't attain him, how could I?"
"Luke is a Jedi, you're his father."

―Han and Leia ^[src]

Leia, Han, C-3PO, and the Resistance leaders find the recovered map.

Han, Chewbacca, and Finn are brought to the Resistance base of operations on D'Qar. BB-8 encounters the astromech droid R2-D2, who, as C-3PO explains, has been dormant since Luke's disappearance. With the recovered map from BB-8 displayed on hologram, 3PO reveals that it is merely partially consummate, and that the map matches no charted system on tape. It is revealed that Han and Leia are aware that their son is Kylo Ren, and that their son'south fall to the dark side, despite Luke'southward efforts to guide him, caused them to separate, with Han returning to his smuggling business and Leia spearheading the activities of the Resistance.

Upon finding the location of the Resistance base, the Starkiller begins draining the ability of the sun to destroy D'Qar. Meanwhile, the Resistance plans an assault of their own. Finn gives them the Starkiller'due south blueprints, which reveal that the Starkiller drains the energy of a star in order to accuse its master weapon, and that information technology requires a thermal oscillator, which sustains the free energy on the planet, in order to role. If the thermal oscillator were destroyed, it would de-stabilize the planet's cadre and implode the base. Yet, they would need to exercise it before the First Society charges the Starkiller weapon and destroys D'Qar. Finn, Han, and Chewie volunteer to disable the base of operations'due south defensive shield from the inside. Before departing to Starkiller Base of operations, Han and Leia embrace, and Leia pleads Han to bring their son home.

Rey's capture [ ]

"You're afraid... that you will never exist as potent every bit Darth Vader!"

―Rey to Kylo Ren ^[src]

Rey is brought to Starkiller Base and interrogated past Kylo Ren, who wants information on the map to Luke Skywalker. Ren takes off his helmet and shows her his face. Initially, Ren is able to run across into Rey's mind, mentioning an island surrounded by water. Nonetheless, the dark warrior has a difficult fourth dimension probing her heed, and Rey is even able to push back into Ren'southward mind. After a mental struggle, Rey announces that she tin can sense fear in him - fear that he will never be as powerful as Darth Vader. Humiliated, Kylo storms out of the room to seek audience with Snoke.

Rey uses a mind pull a fast one on on a stormtrooper to aid her escape.

Left alone and aware of what just happened, Rey realizes it is as Kanata told her: she truly is Force-sensitive. She attempts to use a Jedi mind trick on her stormtrooper guard, to make him release her and leave the door open. It doesn't work, but Rey tries again: this time he walks over and tells her he will tighten her restraints instead of undoing them. Concentrating, Rey tries 1 last fourth dimension, and the stormtrooper listens to her demands. She quickly likewise remembers to accept him driblet his equalizer as he leaves and so she tin can arm herself. Rey then makes her way through Starkiller Base of operations, honing her Force abilities while using stealth. She also draws on her experience climbing through wrecked Imperial starships to make her fashion through the bowels of the installation'due south mechanism. Meanwhile, Kylo reveals to Snoke that Rey is strong with the Forcefulness simply untrained, and Snoke commands Kylo to bring Rey to him. When Kylo discovers that Rey escaped, he throws some other fit of rage, slashing at her empty restraint chair.

Battle of Starkiller Base [ ]

The battle over the trenches of Starkiller Base of operations.

Han Solo pilots the Millennium Falcon to Starkiller Base accompanied by Chewbacca and Finn. Finn'south main objective is to rescue Rey from captivity. Since the Starkiller's shields accept a partial refresh rate, Han pilots through the shields at lightspeed, and the Falcon makes a crude landing at the edge of a cliff. Han, Chewbacca, and Finn sneak into the main base and capture Captain Phasma, whom they force to disable the shields earlier disposing of her in a garbage chute. They reunite with Rey, who had already escaped on her own. With the shields down, Blueish Squadron and Ruddy Squadron led by Blackness Leader Poe Dameron commence their assault. They burn on the Starkiller'southward hexagonal oscillator structure, but fail to destroy it equally the First Order sends Tie fighters to stage a counterattack and throw the Resistance into chaos.

Han attempts to convince his son to abandon the night side.

Seeing this, Han, Chewbacca, Finn, and Rey try to create an opening past planting thermal detonators inside the base. Sensing his father's presence, Kylo goes to run into Han. Han and so confronts his son, Kylo Ren, calling to him past his birth name, "Ben". They arroyo each other on a span over a large pit, and Han pleads with his son to reject Snoke and render to the light side of the Force. Ben, removing his mask and seeming regretful and scared, holds out his lightsaber to Solo, asking for his male parent'southward assistance. Han replies that he would exercise annihilation for him, just when he tries to retract the lightsaber from Ben's hand, he resists. Ben then twists the angle of the hilt and ignites the weapon through Han's body. Witnessed by Rey, Finn, and Chewbacca, Han strokes his son's face for the last time, earlier falling to his death. Enraged, Chewbacca, Rey, and Finn outset firing at Ren and the stormtroopers. Equally the firefight rages, back on D'Qar Leia has to sit down when she feels Han die through the Force, squeezing her optics shut against the tears. Chewbacca injures Ren with his bowcaster, but Ren chases them out of the base and catches up to Finn and Rey in the wood.

Kylo Ren locks sabers with the former stormtrooper.

Rey calls Ren a monster and so proceeds to shoot him with her equalizer, but Ren knocks Rey out by Strength pushing her into a tree. A desperate and terrified Finn comes to her aid immediately. Ren angrily accuses Finn of being a traitor, and Finn pulls out Luke'southward sometime lightsaber and attacks him in a rage. Ren is already badly injured, haemorrhage out of his belly from the bowcaster wound, merely however is as well much for Finn. Finn manages to deal him a glancing wound, simply nonetheless Ren quickly overpowers the former stormtrooper and deals him a grievous injury to his dorsum. Ren tries to use telekinesis to pick upwardly the lightsaber his grandfather built, only it resists his pull and instead flies to Rey, who has awakened from her stupor.

Poe flies in and destroys the Starkiller's thermal oscillator.

During this time, Chewie detonates the thermal detonators in the base, allowing Poe to lead a squadron of X-wings into the trenches of Starkiller Base. Poe finds an opening in the thermal oscillator and enters, while a post-obit Necktie crashes, unable to execute the same flight maneuver. Inside, Poe fires volley subsequently volley of torpedoes into the oscillator, destroying the Starkiller's thermal oscillator thirty seconds before it finishes draining the lord's day to completely charge its master weapon. This causes a chain reaction to go off, which destroys the base and levels the entire planet'southward terrain - without the weapon to dissipate information technology, the stored solar free energy begins vehement the planet apart from the inside.

Rey and Kylo Ren duel on Starkiller Base.

Rey and Ren continue fighting: Ren has taken even more wounds, from Chewbacca, Finn, and Rey, simply even and then initially holds the advantage, drawing on his rage to ignore the pain. Ren becomes so impressed with Rey that he tries to tempt her, complimenting her force with the Forcefulness and offering to complete her training if she joins him. This backfires, however, as it only serves to reassure Rey of her own power, she begins to draw on the Force to hone her attacks, and the tide of the duel shifts. Ultimately, Rey is able to overpower Ren and deal him a astringent wound to his face while severing his lightsaber in two. By this point, Kylo has taken too many wounds to continue standing, but he nonetheless struggles in vain to ascension again. Before Rey can move in to finish him off, a large trench forms between them as the base of operations begins to fall autonomously.

Rey returns to Finn, despairing that Finn is not waking upwards and that they are trapped on the rupturing planet. Nevertheless, Chewbacca arrives with the Millennium Falcon to rescue them. Inside the main base, anarchy reigns as General Hux has already fled, and the other officers rush to abandon the installation too. Hux, meanwhile, reports to Snoke, who orders him to rescue Ren and abscond the base, so Ren can finish his training. The Millennium Falcon and the remainder of the Resistance armada manage to escape Starkiller Base as it erupts into a brawl of fire. They then enter hyperspace to render to D'Qar.

Locating Luke Skywalker [ ]

"May the Force exist with you."

―Leia to Rey ^[src]

The Resistance celebrates their victory while Leia, Chewbacca, and Rey mourn Han's expiry. R2-D2 suddenly awakens and reveals that he holds the map to Luke'due south location, with the merely slice of the map missing being the one BB-viii was given by Poe. Together they complete the map and reveal the location of Ahch-To, the planet on which Luke Skywalker sought out the start Jedi Temple. As the unconscious Finn recovers in the medical unit, Rey kisses him on the caput and thank you him for everything.

Rey finds Luke Skywalker on the oceanic planet of Ahch-To.

With R2-D2 and Chewbacca in tow, Rey leaves on the Millennium Falcon and follows the map to the distant planet, a water earth dotted with islands, which she had previously seen in her visions. Rey pilots the starship to a particular island with a large, aboriginal rock village on it. She climbs the rock-carved steps to the summit of the island, where she finds Luke Skywalker. Without exchanging any words, Rey presents him with his male parent's lightsaber.

Development [ ]

"I keep telling J.J. Abrams this is a $4 billion flick. Nosotros demand to treat this very special. It's an unbelievable privilege and unbelievable responsibility to take a jewel and treat it in a manner that is respectful of its past but brings it into the time to come."

―Bob Iger ^[six]

The Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm from George Lucas paved the way for the cosmos of Star Wars: Episode 7.

On October 30, 2012, The Walt Disney Visitor announced that information technology had purchased Lucasfilm Ltd., the production company backside the creation of the Star Wars franchise, from its owner, Star Wars creator George Lucas, for $4.05 billion.^[7] The acquisition came in the wake of Lucas'south announced retirement on May 31,^[8] and the subsequent June 1 proclamation that veteran film producer Kathleen Kennedy was succeeding Lucas equally Lucasfilm's Co-Chair.^[ix] As part of the merger, Disney revealed that information technology planned to produce a sequel trilogy of films beginning in 2015, with Kennedy serving equally executive producer.^[vii] Episode VII had already been in development for several months as of the Disney–Lucasfilm merger, and Lucas had written the story treatments for each of the three upcoming films.^[10]

Writing [ ]

"J.J. and I sabbatum down to do information technology nether a lot of pressure, did the first draft rapidly but then I've been writing it ever since! And then that's almost two-and-a-half years that nosotros've been writing the thing, and the thing that'south never changed was the idea that there is a spirit to the original trilogy that we wanted to restore."

―Lawrence Kasdan, in Dec 2015 ^[11]

Lucasfilm confirmed on November 9 that pre-production had begun on Star Wars: Episode Seven, and that screenwriter Michael Arndt would write the script for the film.^[12] By this fourth dimension, Arndt had already turned in a forty- to fifty-page story handling^{[xiii] [14] [15]} At some point, Lucas's story outlines were set bated,^[16] and a writer'south room of sorts was assembled at a Santa Monica hotel. Those present included Arndt (withal writing the script), Kiri Hart, Lawrence Kasdan, Kathleen Kennedy and Simon Kinberg.^{[17] [eighteen] [xi]} According to Kasdan, the sessions went on for months with little progress.^[17] Abrams after described them equally "a ton of ideas and outlines, a lot of cards on the wall, a lot of writing on whiteboards."^[xix] Lucas was asked to be a consultant,^[vii] only he stepped away due to Disney's descision to take the story in a different direction than his original outlines.^{[xx] [21]} He later on elaborated in an interview with Stephen Colbert: "The original saga was about the begetter, the children, and the grandchildren. I don't remember that'southward a underground to everyone—that'due south in the novels—and the children were in their 20s and everything. Only they've taken it in a dissimilar direction, and I'yard excited—they didn't use my story, then I don't know what they're doing."^[22]

Arndt worked on the script throughout 2013.^[23] Arndt was told to focus on the female lead, but he had difficulty balancing this with the prominance of Luke, and so the creative team decided to remove Luke from nigh of the film and brand him the character anybody was looking for.^[24] Somewhen, Arndt was let go, and Kasdan was asked to co-write the script with J.J. Abrams (who had been announced every bit the picture show'southward director^[25]), for which they were immune creative freedom to come with a story.^[26] In Nov 2013, Abrams and Kasdan started a new script, incorporating ideas that they each liked from the call up tank. Every bit Abrams told Vanity Fair, "We said, Blank page. Folio ane. What practice we badly want to come across?"^[19] Refering to the writer'southward room sessions, Kasdan told craveonline.com "…for nine months yous talk about something, and then you go off and start from scratch again. Y'all don't flush, you lot know?"^[11] Their writing process involved meeting upwardly at cafes and resturaunts and going on long walks through various major cities around the earth—during which Abrams reccorded their conversations on his phone.^{[27] [xix]} They had put together a script by January 2014, though they were nonetheless working on major story elements fifty-fifty after production began that May.^[19] They were under pressure to deliver a script in a relatively short period of fourth dimension, and some of the higher-ups reportedly requested that the movie exist delayed into 2016.^[23] (Kennedy was among those who objected to the original May 2015 release appointment.^[xix]) Kasdan's son Jon had uncredited writing contributions to the script,^[28] and Episode Viii director Rian Johnson requested Abrams change the ending by having R2-D2 (not BB-8) come to Ahch-To and for Luke not to be floating boulders equally originally intended.^{[29] [xxx]}

Production [ ]

"I've learned to be very conscientious about Star Wars. If I say, 'There volition be no skateboards in Star Wars'... that gets headlines."

―Alan Horn, Disney Chairman ^[src]

The cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Forcefulness Awakens began preliminary shooting in Apr 2014,^{[31] [32]} with second-unit work taking place in Republic of iceland and Abu Dhabi.^{[33] [34] [35]} On April 25, Lucasfilm announced their plans for a new continuity that excluded the existing Expanded Universe, and confirmed that Episode Vii and its sequels would not adhere to whatever existing continuity.^[36] This was followed on Apr 29 by the official release of the cast list for the movie. Marking Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, and Anthony Daniels would render to reprise their roles as the main characters of the original trilogy, and they would exist joined by a number of new actors in leading roles: John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow.^[37] Hamill remarked on returning to Star Wars: "Part of the feel of [Star Wars] in my life was coming down from that, putting it backside me. Nosotros had a commencement, middle, and an finish. And I certainly, in a million years, never expected to return. I thought, fifty-fifty if they practice more trilogies, my story is over."^[38] Denis Lawson was asked to reprise his role as Wedge Antilles from the original trilogy, but declined, initially stating that it would take "bored" him,^[39] but subsequently challenge that he had been busy on another project.^[40]

Principal photography was announced on May 10, 2013, and began on May 16, 2014 at the Great britain's Pinewood Studios.^{[41] [42] [43] [44]} For visual inspiration, Abrams looked at films directed by John Ford, Akira Kurosawa, and Terrence Malick.^[45] Daniel Mindel—who had previously worked with Abrams as managing director of photography—returned to collaborate with the director on the film.^[46] Reportedly, 1 sequence was shot with IMAX cameras.^{[47] [48]} Although Peter Mayhew was able to reprise the role every bit Chewbacca,^[49] some scenes had to be shot with a stunt double, due to Mayhew'due south age and physical health.^[fifty] On June 11, the 71-yr old Harrison Ford broke his left leg when a hydraulic door at Pinewood Studios vicious down and hit him, and was airlifted to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.^[51] His recovery forced him to driblet out of filming for eight weeks.^[52] Abrams also sustained a pocket-sized back injury when he tried to help lift the door off of Ford's leg.^[53] On June 28, actor Andy Serkis confirmed that The Imaginarium Studios would exist involved with performance capture on the film, as well as all future Star Wars projects. Serkis besides confirmed that the character he plays in the flick would utilize functioning capture.^[54] On July 6, Lucasfilm confirmed that actors Crystal Clarke and Pip Andersen were cast in the film through open casting calls in the Great britain. They also revealed that product would have a two-week hiatus in August to arrange Harrison Ford's leg injury. Afterwards shooting would resume, and conclude later in the fall.^[55]

On November 6, 2014, the official Star Wars Twitter business relationship announced that the film had completed principal photography. The post gave the official championship for the film as Star Wars: The Forcefulness Awakens, and was accompanied by a title card for the new proper name that, like the original trilogy, excluded the "Episode" subtitle.^[56] The pic had gone through several titles, including Shadow of the Empire, similar to Shadows of the Empire.^{[57] [58]}

Design [ ]

Michael Kaplan, who had designed the costumes for Abrams' Star Expedition films, too signed on to costume Episode 7.^[59] Kaplan designed new stormtrooper uniforms for the movie, every bit it was determined that the original costumes would not stand up upward to modern scrutiny. These new uniforms were inspired past Apple tree products.^[60] The production team built a new C-3PO accommodate to adjust Anthony Daniels,^[61] while the R2-D2 model was provided and overseen past members of the R2-D2 Builders Society.^[62]

Supervising sound editor Matthew Wood brought in former cast and crew members of Star Wars: The Clone Wars to record diverse background dialogue.^[63] Ewan McGregor and Frank Oz as well recorded new lines for the scene of Rey'south Strength vision. McGregor's recording was combined with audio of the late Alec Guinness, and pre-existing Yoda audio was ultimately used in lieu of Oz'southward new recording.^[64]

Music [ ]

During a concert with the Young Musician's Foundation Debut Orchestra on Feb 9, 2013 composer John Williams stated that he was hoping to get the chance to write the musical scores for the new trilogy.^[65] Abrams made farther statements on this at a Star Trek Into Darkness conference on April 29, stating, "Over again, for Star Wars, it's very early days, but I believe that, going forward, John Williams will be doing that picture show because he was there long before I was."^[66] On July 27, 2013, a video of Williams confirming he would score the new film was screened at Star Wars Celebration Europe Two.^[67] On March 21, 2015, Lucasfilm revealed that John Williams would carry the score for The Strength Awakens in Los Angeles. Williams'south previous Star Wars scores were recorded in the Uk with the London Symphony Orchestra.^[68] The sessions lasted from summer through fall of 2015.^[69]

Release [ ]

"Nosotros're living in such a dissimilar age at present. It'south similar a competition to run across who can leak information faster than the adjacent guy. I don't get it. I'thou keeping my fingers crossed that they don't get a copy of the script and leak the whole thing on the Cyberspace."

―Mark Hamill ^[src]

Official logo

The first teaser trailer—released early due to both fan need and Abrams' request^{[half dozen] [70]}—was announced via the Bad Robot Productions Twitter account, with a annotation from Abrams maxim fans will meet a "tiny peek at what we're working on."^[71] The 88-second teaser premiered in thirty theaters beyond North America and was released online on November 28, 2014.^{[72] [73]} The teaser was shown in theaters effectually the earth beginning in Dec 2014.^[72] Grapheme names were revealed shortly thereafter in online mock collector cards.^[74] Earlier that November, J.J. Abrams made a cameo on Last Calendar week Tonight with John Oliver, in which he could be seen directing R2-D2 on the set of The Force Awakens. When a fish from Oliver's salmon cannon falls on the script that he'south property, Abrams gets frustrated and quits the film.^[75]

A 2d teaser was released on April 16, 2015.^[76] The June 2015 issue of Variety featured a cover story on The Force Awakens, with interviews with bandage and crew and images from an Annie Leibovitz photograph shoot.^[77] The August 2015 problems of Entertainment Weekly and Empire also had the film as their embrace stories.^{[78] [79] [80]} The Force Awakens had a presence at 2015'due south San Diego Comic-Con and D23 events.^{[81] [82]} At the latter, it was revealed that Drew Struzan had returned to create poster art for the film, including a poster sectional to the event.^[83] A third, shorter teaser was released on the Star Wars Instagram on August 27.^[84] On September 23, Facebook released a 360-caste panoramic video clip of a speeder driving beyond Jakku.^[85] The official one sheet was released on October 18, 2015,^[86] while the full-length trailer debuted on Oct nineteen with ESPN's Mon Night Football.^[87]

The cast and coiffure appeared on various TV programs, including Good Morning America,^[88] Live! with Kelly and Michael,^[89] and 60 minutes.^{[90] [91]} Abrams, Boyega, and Ridley participated in a Sat Night Alive sketch featuring cast members and invitee celebrities in a series of fake auditions. Amongst the subjects parodied were racist reactions to Boyega's casting, Lucas's comments almost not being involved, and Abrams's involvement in the rival franchise Star Trek.^{[92] [93]} (More of these after aired on June 1, 2016.^[94]) Abrams and the bandage appeared on a Star Wars–themed episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Nov 23.^[95] Harrison Ford spoke near his injury during shooting on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon by destroying a Han Solo activeness figure.^[96]

Some members of the bandage and crew also participated in an official press briefing on December 5.^[97] The film had its ruby-red-carpet premiere on December fourteen at Hollywood Boulevard.^[98] The upshot was streamed live on StarWars.com.^[99] The cast (including the droids) participated in an a cappella medley of the music from the series with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots on The Tonight Evidence.^[100] Ford and Abrams participated on a sketch on The Tardily Show with Stephen Colbert depicting what convinced Ford to return: Colbert allegedly almost convinced Abrams to recast the role of Han with him.^[101] Afterwards, when he appeared on Conan, he was asked to sign producer Jordan Schlansky'south LEGO Millennium Falcon and "accidentally" dropped information technology.^[102] Abrams fabricated a cameo on a May 2016 episode of The Late Late Testify with James Corden, in which he appeared in the backseat of a car and directed "Chewbacca Mom" Candace Payne on how to properly use a Chewbacca mask.^[103]

Charity [ ]

On May 21, 2014, Disney, Lucasfilm, and Bad Robot announced "Force for Alter," a charity campaign "dedicated to finding creative solutions to some of the globe's biggest issues"; initially, the campaign was focused on contributing to UNICEF. Each person who donated was entered to win a set visit to and appearance in Episode Vii.^[104] On August 11, Denver, Colorado resident D.C. Barns was announced as the contest's winner.^[105] J.J. Abrams later released a YouTube video in which he announced that the contest had raised $iv.26 million.^[106] In August 2014, several of the film'southward cast and crew participated in the "Water ice Bucket Challenge," an Internet phenomenon whereby one pours water onto one's head as a pledge to donate to the ALS association.^[107] On April 21, 2015, Abrams appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where he performed the "Twizzler challenge" with Chewbacca, in honor of Autism Awareness Calendar month.^[108] In Baronial 2015, Lucasfilm and HP began a ii-month program called "Art Awakens," in which people submitted fine art inspired past The Force Awakens, of which a certain number were chosen for an art exhibit, the proceeds of which went to "Strength for Change."^[109] On Nov 5, 2015, director J.J. Abrams screened an unfinished version of the motion picture for Daniel Fleetwood, a 32-year-old Star Wars fan with an aggressive form of cancer, who was likely to dice before the film's release. The entrada for him to encounter the moving picture was supported by several of the flick's stars, including John Boyega, Mark Hamill, and Gwendoline Christie. Fleetwood passed away on November 9 or 10, 2015.^[110] The motion-picture show was besides fabricated available for viewing by astronauts on the International Infinite Station.^[111] On November 28, it was revealed that R2-KT, the droid built in honor of Katie Johnson, would make an appearance in The Force Awakens.^[112] Albin Johnson, founder of the 501st Legion and male parent of Katie, had constructed the droid after she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. In addition to R2-KT's advent, a variation of the 501st's logo was featured as a flag outside Maz Kanata'south castle.^[113]

Merchandising [ ]

Teaser poster from the D23 Expo

Following Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012, its "imagineers" began developing Star Wars–themed expansions to the various Disney theme parks. Still, Bob Iger halted work on these expansions until The Force Awakens and other future Star Wars films had reached a bespeak in their development that elements from those projects could be included.^[vi] On Baronial xv, 2015, information technology was announced that plans were moving frontward for a Star Wars-themed section of the Disney parks, which would include content based on The Force Awakens.^[114]

Disney's merchandising campaign for the film began on September 4, 2015—dubbed "Force Friday."^[115] Lucasfilm has published a series of books and comics that connect Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.^{[116] [117]} A novelization was released,^[118] as well as a number of other titles directly continued to the movie, such as an fine art book,^[119] a graphic symbol anthology,^[120] and Ultimate Sticker Collection.^[121] Content from The Force Awakens was also featured in the video games Disney Infinity three.0, Star Wars Battlefront and LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens.^{[122] [123] [124]} The company partnered with eight major brands: Covergirl & Max Factor, Duracell, FCA US, General Mills, HP, Subway, and Verizon.^[125] Start in Baronial 2015, Target stores held a campaign chosen "Share the Force," which included TV ads, exclusive in-store merchandise, and an online programme in which Star Wars fans could submit images and videos that captured their memories of the franchise.^[126] Some of Japan's All Nihon Airways airplanes were painted to reverberate elements from The Forcefulness Awakens.^[127]

The merchandise garnered criticism equally information technology lacked Rey's presence: Hasbro announced it would re-release its Strength Awakens Monopoly set to include her after it excluded her in favor of Darth Vader, who is non in the movie. Abrams said he was not involved much in the merchandising, and that when "I read that she wasn't in the Monopoly game and was quickly making phone calls almost this because if information technology were true — and information technology is truthful, and now Hasbro, of course, has said they're going to put Rey in — it doesn't quite brand sense why she wouldn't exist there."^[128]

Home media [ ]

The Strength Awakens was released in a Blu-ray philharmonic pack and on DVD on April v, 2016, with a digital version bachelor four days before on Apr 1. Special features included deleted scenes, featurettes, and a feature-length documentary, Secrets of The Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey. Various retailers also included exclusive content and/or packaging,^[129] and one deleted scene was exclusive to the digital download.^[130] On March 23, 2016, the film was leaked online prior to its original Blu-ray release and was downloaded more than two million times in twelve hours.^[131] A 3D Collector's Edition was also released in belatedly 2016, containing Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, Digital Hard disk and DVD versions of the film. It included all of the bonus features from the original release, besides as an audio commentary past J.J. Abrams, additional deleted scenes, and additional backside-the-scenes conversations with cast and crew.^[132]

The moving picture made its tv debut on the Starz channels, beginning September 10, 2016.^[133]

Reception [ ]

Theater tickets became available for pre-club on October 19th,^[86] with many online retailers experiencing outages due to heavy demand, including pinnacle sites such equally Fandango.^{[134] [135]} By the time of the moving-picture show's release, over $100 one thousand thousand in pre-release tickets were sold, bypassing the previous tape, held past The Night Knight.^[136]

Some theater bondage limited the types of cosplay allowed at screenings of the film. For instance, fans at AMC and Cinemark weren't allowed to wearable masks or face paint, or carry simulated weapons. Some bondage likewise banned the conveying of lightsaber toys.^[137]

The film carries a 93% fresh score at the review-assemblage site Rotten Tomatoes, with 434 reviews and an average score of viii.26/10.^{[138] [139]} Manohla Dargis of the New York Times stated that "The large news about 'Star Wars: The Strength Awakens' is — spoiler alert — that it's good!" and that the film "takes off with a boxing and closes on a meaningful moment of tranquility."^[140] John Wenzel of the Denver Post graded the picture at 3 ane/2 stars out of four, calling information technology a "masterful symphony" and praising the film'south emphasis on "applied effects and honest-to-God sets."^[141]

On January 6, 2016, the film broke the tape for the highest box-part gross for a picture show in the United States, beating the previous record of $760.5 1000000 held by the 2009 epic science-fiction moving-picture show Avatar by James Cameron. The record was reached less than three weeks later release.^[142] Adjusted for ticket price aggrandizement, The Strength Awakens is the most successful sequel of all fourth dimension, narrowly beating Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back.^[143] On February 7, 2016, the film was reported to have crossed the threshold of $ii billion in ticket sales.^[144]

The Force Awakens was nominated for five Oscars at the 88th Academy Awards (the largest number of award nominations for a single Star Wars flick since A New Hope), held on Feb 28, 2016. The pic was nominated in the categories of Best Film Editing for Maryann Brandon and Mary Joe Markey; Best Original Score for John Williams; Best Sound Editing for Matthew Forest and David Acord; Best Sound Mixing for Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, and Stuart Wilson; and Best Visual Effects for Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan, and Chris Corbould.^[145] The full general public voted The Force Awakens Movie of the Twelvemonth at the 2016 MTV Motion picture Awards; Daisy Ridley was also voted Best Quantum Operation, while Adam Driver won All-time Villain.^[146]

According to Robert Iger's 2019 memoir The Ride of a Lifetime, George Lucas was non pleased with the film, feeling that it lacked inventiveness or innovation. On his part, Iger explained that his company intended to make a motion-picture show that was familiar to what had come up before.^[147] Kathleen Kennedy later commented on this to Rolling Stone: "He may not agree with every pick J.J. fabricated. He may non agree with every choice Rian made. Only he appreciates the pic-making. That I know."^[148]

Abrams admitted one problem with the picture show, namely Rey and Leia hugging at the end, although it is not established that they know each other. Abrams explained Chewbacca was preoccupied with getting Finn medical attention, while Rey and Leia had spoken via transmitter off screen. He said, "Had Chewbacca not been where he was, you probably wouldn't have idea of it. Merely because he was right in that location, passed by Leia, it felt almost like a slight, which was definitely non the intention."^[149]

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