Star Wars Episodio VII dirigido por J.J.Abrams

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Fall Movie Preview: Abrams on keeping 'Star Wars' grounded

NEW YORK (AP) — Imagine for a moment the peculiar experience of finding yourself in the Arabian desert, telling C3PO what to do.

Such was the case for J.J. Abrams, who — despite his own trepidation — stepped into George Lucas' space opera with the monumental task of meeting the Death Star-sized expectations that await "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." For the 49-year-old Abrams, who grew up a "Star Wars" fan, part of the challenge was coming face to face with a fantasy world he knew and loved.

"That was a constant in the production of the movie: moments where we would all look around and realize what we were doing and gasp a little bit and then dive back in," Abrams said in a recent interview before ducking back into editing. "When you're on the set of the Millennium Falcon or staring into the eyes of C3PO giving direction, it's pretty easy to have that fanatic part of you bubble up. But our job was to be there to tell this story, not to be a fanboy."

Thanks to those fanboys and girls (many of whom are now men and women), there's no more anticipated movie this fall than "The Force Awakens" (due out Dec. 18). The rollout began months ago, whetting the rabid appetites of "Star Wars" fans with an IV drip of footage, still pictures and trailers.

Enthusiasm, which might have waned after the disappointment of the last trilogy, is again reaching lightspeed, thanks to promising new elements (like the rolling droid BB-8), the return of original cast members and Abrams, himself, already the trusted hero of another galaxy: "Star Trek."

Abrams is the New Hope of a franchise (now a Walt Disney Co. property) already preparing to fire out a meteor storm of sequels and spinoffs. Billions are at stake, but the Force, they say, is strong. "Star Wars" Episode Seven is expected to surpass $500 million worldwide in its opening weekend alone.

It almost wasn't to be. Intending to focus on original material, Abrams initially balked at inheriting "Star Wars," but was persuaded by producer Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm.

"She and I were talking about what this world would be, this universe, nearly 40 years after Episode Six and the idea that these characters would have lived on. And yet there would have been this new generation that may not know at all who these characters were, or had heard of them but not necessarily believed that they were real," says Abrams. "It felt like such fertile ground."

That means a mix of familiar, if now older, faces (Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca) and new ones (among them Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Max von Sydow) that will tether "The Force Awakens" to the original films.

It was made with extreme secrecy, always under the threat of leaks, and under the watchful eyes of "Star Wars" devotees. Fans have dissected every frame, analyzing everything from the physics of a briefly glimpsed lightsaber to the interior design of a TIE fighter.

Working in the midst of that extreme passion, Abrams says, was more incentive than pressure cooker.

"It is on the one hand incredibly and understandably stressful because you've got the anticipation and expectation that comes with this world that George created," he says. "And on the other hand, it's something that I would never complain about or look at as a negative because it is excitement and anticipation and passion for this world that got me excited not just to be involved with this movie but be involved with moviemaking."

The Force is a mystical, invisible power, but the stuff of "Star Wars" — the matter of its galaxy — is tactile: the melancholy horizon of Tatooine; the lush forest of the Ewok planet Endor; the spilled innards of a Tauntuan. These are the tangible qualities that lent Lucas' films an exotic, hand-crafted realism.

Realizing this, Abrams endeavored to marry modern CGI tools with old-school effects and real sets. That strategy, he says, paid off in capturing the spirit of "Star Wars."

"I can't think of something that we did that doesn't look and feel more authentic that I wish we had done differently," says Abrams. "Wherever possible, whenever possible, we tried to do things as much in camera as we could. And that meant that a lot of artists on that side of things were building things not with pixels but with wood and paint and foam and actually constructing sets that we could have done in post. It gave the actors the actual location, the actual sunlight or stage light something to bounce off of, and the movie a feeling of being in an actual location and not an artificial one."

Though that meant some hot days in the Abu Dhabi sun and the occasional studio set difficulties (production was shut down when a hydraulic door fell on Ford, fracturing his leg), it was worth it to Abrams.

"It was really nice to not have to also worry about: Will that ship look good on camera? Because we actually had it. We were actually filming it," he says.

Such an approach was a way to keep the fantasy grounded, and it typifies the entire production: a melding of new and old, fantastical and authentic.

Yet as much as Abrams tried to keep his inner fanboy at bay, he did grant one "marvel": seeing Fisher, Hamill and Ford slide back into their iconic characters.

"What was incredible from my point of view was how apparently easily they flipped back into these roles," says Abrams. "I knew for a fact, for example, that Harrison Ford was going to be in this movie, but I couldn't be certain that Han Solo would be. Meaning, I hadn't seen Han Solo return after nearly 40 years, either. And it wasn't until we got on set that I got my answer. It was a remarkable thing to see how effortlessly Harrison Ford became Han Solo again."
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A mi personalmente me da igual que lo pongáis o no y además no soy fan, pero mi comentario anterior apelaba al sentido común por dos motivos:
  • Este hilo trata de una película que genera mucho interés (3600 mensajes y aún estamos a más de 3 meses del estreno) y no creo que sea útil mezclar temas que no sean relevantes sobre la película ya que puede hacer tediosa su lectura, además que para hablar de temas no relacionados específicamente con la película ya hay otros hilos.
  • Que el merchandising esté relacionado con esta franquicia ni lo discuto ni lo dejo de discutir pero, mientras, en efecto, parte del merchandising que se ha puesto en este hilo nos ha mostrado detalles todavía desconocidos de la película, sin salirnos de esta página del hilo tenemos un vestido con decoración de BB-8 y una espada láser de Kylo Ren que a mi entender es puro fandom dado que es merchandising que no aporta nada nuevo sobre la película, si es que aporta algo.
Insisto en que la intención de mi comentario ha sido la de intentar que se mantenga una cierta coherencia dentro del hilo y facilitar su lectura a quienes estén interesados específicamente en la película, que para eso tenemos distintos hilos y subforos en NosoloHD, pero si querés publicar aquí el merchandising porque creéis que este es el hilo adecuado, no seré yo quien os lo vaya a impedir.
 
Con Dr_X, cada vez entro esperando noticias nuevas "de verdad" y me encuentro muñecos :notok Y ojo que no critico la labor de Hinomura, que tiene que estar, pero creo que el hilo que le corresponde es el otro (el del universo expandido ése que 'no cuenta' :diablillo)
 
Niego la mayor: en todo caso, el otro hilo también está dedicado a hablar de cine, y además queda clarinete en el mensaje inaugural de Atreyub: "Personajes, películas, spin-offs...". Si lo que queréis es eliminar de aquí los juguetitos, proponed llevarlo fuera del subforo de cinefilia (Coleccionismo? Tiendas?). Pero todos los hilos que hablen de películas, en este subforo, o todos moros o todos cristianos.

PD: cuando la pesada de la Leibovitz vuelva a publicar fotos de las suyas del equipo, ¿se incluirán aquí? (la respuesta unos pocos posts más arriba).
 
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Ha habido bastante morralla con esto de los muñequitos. Pero también es cierto que muchos de ellos siempre aportan detalles nuevos sobre la película (aunque sean nimios para la mayoría).

Apoyaría que hubiera un poco más de criterio (yeah!) a la hora de seleccionar qué merchandising poner por aquí. Aún así, si no se publicaran los muñecos, seguramente este hilo no se actualizaría con otros comentarios o cosas. Y quien quiera actualizar el post con esos otros comentarios o cosas, puede hacerlo igualmente, así que no veo que resulte un problema.
 
A falta de más imágenes y noticias, el ver fotos de figuras nuevas y todo eso aporta bastante sobre lo que nos espera... Creo yo.
Además, hablamos de Star Wars, la saga que inventó todo esto de los muñecos, es imposible separarlo.
Que tampoco seré yo el que imponga nada, pero creo que está bien entrar al post buscando noticias o fotos nuevas y encontrarte con una caja de un nuevo muñeco del que no se había visto nada... Sigue siendo información relacionada con la peli, no?

Personalmente me molesta bastante más el forochateo y las respuestas en formas de imagen o gifs que tan de moda están.

Si hay que hacer otro post dedicado solamente al merchandising, bien estará también.
 
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