Everything We Know About Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is already one of the most successful films of all time and it hasn’t even been released yet. It is probably the most hyped and anticipated film of all time, with over 16,500 people voting for it as Most Anticipated Film of 2015 on Movie Insider. So on this article, I will be detailing everything we know about Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

There have been many trailers for it, which tell us a lot. Firstly, we know that there will be a new villain called Kylo Ren. He will be the leader of the First Order, a small group that have come together after the fall of the Empire. These Stormtroopers look very different, their helmets are a much more prominent style, with features standing out a lot. Their commander, Captain Phasma, is another newly designed Stormtrooper, who looks very cool. His almost completely black suit looks like he will be a very important Stormtrooper, within the ranks of General Rex or Commander Cody.

At the end of the second trailer we see the reintroduction of Han Solo and Chewbacca, which made quite a few Star Wars fans weep. These two characters can be seen in later trailers to be very important characters in the film, unlike the likes of Princess Leia or Luke Skywalker.

Now, it seems that they have been absent from the Rebel Alliance (but now they’re not really Rebels, so I don’t know what they are called), so does this mean there was some terrible ordeal that they had to go through and were believed dead or maybe they were sent on a very important mission on some sort of barren planet that they had got stuck on for decades.

BB-8 is a new droid who seems to be taking the place of R2-D2 in this film. A very strange little droid, it seems to be some kind of Astromech droid with a very peculiar way of travelling. Along with BB-8, we also have the introduction of the three new, main, heroes: Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega) and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac). Rey is a girl from a desert planet called Jakku, who lives in a ship graveyard. Then we have Finn, who seems to be a rogue Stormtrooper, trying to find his way in life. According to the trailers, Finn is the Jedi of this film, wielding a blue lightsaber. Finally is Poe Dameron. From almost every single shot we have seen him in, Poe is next to an X-Wing wearing the costume of an X-Wing Pilot. This implies that Poe will be playing this film’s version of Wedge Antilles.

  

So, overall this film is ultimately going to be a massive success, but the question we’re asking is…will it deserve it. Hopefully the answer is yes.