SPECULATION Leaks/spoiler-consume JJ's and Disney's fault?

No, I don't think it's their fault. It's yours.

Let them work on the movie. And find something to do in the meantime.

 

The problem here is everyone here is treating every single rumor as absolute 100% fact with no real reason any of them is more or less likely than another

 

I would blame JJ and Disney indirectly only for having a high level of secrecy which then leads us, the fans, to want to know more.

The blame really lies on us for consuming it so voraciously. We've fueled a group of leakers who leak out rumors and info mostly (I think) just to feel more important and to maybe get something like a free meal or beers as payment for said info leak.

 

Oh yeah, that's all cool. I wasn't speaking about you or people like you in my comment, but more about many other uses here and even somewhat people like myself. It's like crack for some people here.

 

Actually, I'm kinda impressed with how little has been confirmed at this point. I think that JJ has done a nice job maintaining secrecy. While I would love to see some production diaries and behind the scenes featurettes, I don't think that either would quench the collective need to dig for spoilers.

 

The movie wasn't even on my radar in November before the trailer came out (13 months away is a long way away) but since then I have been like a hungry hound. The problem is we know literally NOTHING for 100% and that bothers me a lot. Comparing it to any other movie you know who is playing whom and what the setting is and stuff like that. We have a couple character names and nothing else. I mean we have nothing.

Here's what we learned from the trailer: Theres a girl. Theres a guy who's a stormtrooper. There's a soccer ball droid. They're on a desert planet. There's another guy flying an xwing over water. There's a weird lightsaber on a snow planet. There is a millennium falcon and tie fighters.

This brings me to what bothers me the most: Why show a teaser trailer THAT early for a movie that doesn't come out for more than a year? The only thing I can think of is so they had extra time to release more marketing materials than the average film before TFA is released, which would make sense since it's a star wars film and going to be a phenomenon.

However, they haven't released anything since then. Virtual trading cards for like 3 characters? Cool. But why have they been so quiet for so long? If you're tired of leaks coming out then release something. It's like the hounds are hungry and to occupy them for a while you throw them a bite of steak. They'll be quenched (albeit not for long) but it would buy the production time for people like me. If we either had ANYTHING concrete to talk about or they had waited to release the trailer until closer to the film date I can promise you with 100% certainty I would not be reading spoilers and obsessing over it everyday.

I won't speak for everyone else but this is how I feel.

 

If they had been releasing more official materials all this time it still wouldn't stop people looking for spoilers. We would just be more spoiled.

I remember back to the webisodes they did for the PT and they gave away a lot of the story and confirmed things which were previously only rumors.

LF and Disney can't win the spoiler war. Not for Star Wars.

 

http://screenrant.com/star-wars-7-force-awakens-jj-abrams-plot-characters-rumors/

 

many of the rumors are so bad, belloqe in Space, a light saber flowting in Space, ect..........

 

I think they have done well to conceal/ confuse us. On that note, as others have stated, they could have released all kinds of photos- say macros or super close ups - a hilt, a storm troopers foot in the jungle, etc. - things to make it fun without spoiling the story. I appreciate the preservation of the story, but I hope jj lightens up after Anaheim. Make it fun, not painful

 

In a round bout way it is their fault. For a production of this magnitude, the leaks were bound to happen. However, perhaps the leaks wouldn't have been so bad if they would of thrown the fandom a bone now and then. 4 months past the completion of principle photography and all we have is a teaser that barely shows anything. Everyone wants to see the original cast, but their production photos are being kept under wraps. When the Kylo Ren pic leaked, LFL could have just turned their head and not say a thing about it, but instead they are suing the guy who leaked it. Sure it was a breach of trust and of a NDA, but what is this gonna prove? Is this going to stop any and all leaks for the next few projects? I highly doubt it. Kennedy and JJ should only blame themselves for what has happened.

Of course, YMMV.

 

I kind of think that once we are plunged into the new trilogy, see EP VII, know the story and characters, we will be given much more info in the lead up to VIII and IX. It could very well be in the vein LFL took for the PT with BTS featurettes and photos(I used to buy Star Wars Insider as a teenager just for Rick McCallum's producer updates in the months before EP's II and III). Point is, if they tell us who the characters are and their relationships to each other like we got before EP I, we'll essentially have the whole of EP VII spoiled. The potential for BTS stuff in the lead-up to VIII and IX make sense because we can see stuff with characters we already know without a ton of risk for ruining plot.

 

I think each movie will have their own plot rather than a chain events going through to conclusion in the third movie.