RUMOR General Star Wars: The Force Awakens News & Rumors Thread

It came from a guy who keeps saying that Max Von Sydow is playing an elderly Kanan Jarrus (he isn't). So, nothing to see there.

Where was it suggested that there were multiple IMAX scenes, exactly?

 

I'll allow Yahtzee to take this one! "Hey, Yahtzee, will The Force Awakens be released in May 2015?"

Here are a few key reasons why this isn't going to happen:

1. There is no real reason to release it in May other than to continue a silly tradition, which would most likely lower the quality of the final film had it been adhered to.
2. It would limit both the movie's own profits and the profits of The Avengers: Age Of Ultron instead of basically having the entirety of the December/January/February box office to itself, like Avatar (you know, the most profitable movie ever made).
3. J. J. Abrams is notorious for taking his sweet time on projects due to juggling many intellectual properties at once, which is something he avoided doing for this movie - it was also likely a key factor in moving the movie to a December 2015 release instead of one in May. He knew that it would probably be a huge undertaking to start and finish this movie, and that's why he gave himself seven additional months for the deadline.
4. Reshoots are still happening. While the aforementioned Age Of Ultron is having a few of them before it releases, these things usually happen a while in advance. The ones for Marvel's big movie are probably limited to shots that don't require significant visual effects (due to the time constraints of the situation), but given that the Star Wars reshoots are happening a little less than a year before the movie comes out, I think it's more likely that they want to enhance some of their setpieces.
5. The entire ad campaign as we know it is based around the movie being released in December 2015. Toys in September. Ads in October and November. The long-awaited Battlefront in December. Even if they wanted to change the date, that would require a lot of shuffling about of release dates for products - which, again, would lower their quality and thus the amount of profit they could attain.
6. We would have seen a Super Bowl ad if they changed their mind about the release date, but we didn't. On that same note, we might have received official news on the spin-off, but we didn't.

I will say that, on the unlikely chance the movie is released early, it will be released in late September at the very earliest. But I wouldn't put a dime on that happening.

 

The key difference is that the context behind the meet-up of the two characters was entirely different. Our report said that Finn released Poe from captivity on a Star Destroyer, and that gets him to hijack a TIE fighter. That follows the same formula of there being a rescue involving Poe and Finn, but there's a completely different dynamic to the scene than just being rescued by Rey on the planet. (This is something I actually pointed out in our article on your piece, which incidentally I enjoyed.)

In any case, I think that we should move on from the situation. I don't see any claim here that your article is baseless, and if you were led to believe that, then I apologize. Nonetheless, the articles have since been posted, and dragging the conversation on isn't going to do anybody any favors.

 

As it stands, there's no way Luke could have been in the tomb. It needed to be unlocked first, which was his job to prevent (which he has to fail in doing, of course, because that's just the way the plot advances).