By: Dominic Jones
The award nominations for Star Wars: The Force Awakens continue to come in. The latest nod is for Production Designers Rick Carter and Darren Gilford in the "Fantasy Film" category of the Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design Awards. The list of nominees for this category are,
“Cinderella” – Production Designer: Dante Ferretti
“Jurassic World” – Production Designer: Edward Verreaux
“Mad...
By: Dominic Jones
Warning: This Story Contains Spoilers from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. If you haven't seen the film yet, stop reading now!
Discover Ireland has released a new video about the filming of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on location at Skellig Michael, off Coast Kerry in Ireland. The location was used for the iconic final scene in the film where Rey brings Luke Skywalker his old lightsaber. The featurette...
By: Dominic Jones
Star Wars: The Force Awakens introduced us to many memorable new characters, including the 1000 year old space pirate Maz Kanata. Abrams spoke with his hometown newspaper, The Palisadian Post, recently and revealed that he partially based Maz on his High School English teacher Rose Gilbert. Abrams said,
"Yes, the character of Maz was originally based on the great Rose
Gilbert. We really wanted the story...
By: Dominic Jones
Many key members of the crew of Star Wars: The Force Awakens took part in a special Q&A with The Hollywood Reporters' Scott Feinberg after a screening of the film at the Academy. The crew members present were, director JJ Abrams, producer Kathleen Kennedy, co-writer Lawrence Kasdan, VFX supervisor Roger Guyett, editors Mary Jo Markey and Maryann Brandon, cinematographer Daniel Mindel, costume designer Michael Kaplan...
By: Benjamin Hart
Over the past few days Entertainment Weekly's Anthony Breznican has been releasing pieces of his phenomenal interview with Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan discussing The Force Awakens. These articles have proven to be the most revealing feature we've seen from the film thus far, giving us brand new looks at some of the characters, revealing what made J.J. Abrams take the job of directing the first place, more...
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