Fans can win a chance to attend one of The Force Awakens premieres through Omaze. The list of charities chosen by the cast can be seen on StarWars.com.
Today in The Force Awakens: New Noto, interviews with Kasdan and Kaplan
To celebrate the 30 day marker, Phil Noto cooked up a new The Force Awakens piece.
→ Wired has an interview with Lawrence Kasdan and, in the U.K. version for some reason, costume designer Michael Kaplan with a straight from the set armor gallery.
→ George Lucas tells Vanity Fair why he’s done directing mainstream movies.
→ Daisy Ridley and Lupita Nyong’o aren’t the only new cast members fashion magazining it up: Domhnall Gleeson is chilling with model Gigi Hadid in Portugal for Vogue.
Video: New Finn-centric The Force Awakens commercial
This is, per JoBlo’s count anyway, our fifth TV spot for The Force Awakens.
On that note, over at Empire, John Boyega talks about holding the lightsaber for the first time.
Discussion topic: If the First Order is raising kids to be stormtroopers, why does Finn have an American Outer Rim accent? Do only the officers get the Proper Imperial Elocution package?
Roundup: 30 days until The Force Awakens (Come play with us, Danny.)
Today we’re one month away from The Force Awakens. Well, those of us who have tickets for the December 17th showings do as I post this. (Check your local theater – they likely still have tickets.)
→ Star Wars is forever and ever (and ever) Wired reminds us, in another article from their Star Wars issue. (Remember the J.J. interview?) There’s not any real news here if you’ve been paying attention, but it is a good look at the new mega movie franchise blueprint. Elsewhere, a look at the Disney empire and their gatefold Millennium Falcon cover.
→ Fashion designers are reinterpreting looks from the Force Awakens that will be auctioned for charity. The Force 4 Fashion looks will be revealed on December 2.
→ Greg Grunberg on shooting The Force Awakens. J.J. Abrams is mean.
→ Hasbro says demand for The Force Awakens toys was higher than they expected. “No shit,” say collectors everywhere, rolling their eyes.
The Force Awakens: How tall is a Snoke?
Andy Serkis talks to Empire about filming his scenes as Supreme Leader Snoke… Who is supreme in any number of ways. Namely, he is tall.
“It was quite an unusual situation,” Serkis tells us in the new issue of Empire. “I worked specifically with Domhnall Gleeson and with Adam Driver. My first day was basically standing on a 25-foot podium doing Lord Snoke without the faintest idea what he looked like… or in fact who he was! I was very high up, totally on my own, away from everybody else, but acting with them.”
Echoing his comments to Entertainment Weekly, Serkis also calls the character “severely damaged.”
First (non-action figure) look at The Force Awakens’ Constable Zuvio
With Entertainment Weekly out of the way, now it’s Empire’s turn for an ‘exclusive:’ The reveal of Constable Zuvio. We’ve seen him in action figure form, but now we learn:
[He’s] a “vigilant law officer on a mostly lawless world” who “keeps order in a frontier trading post”. He’s also apparently “tough and humorless”.
That’s a pretty wacky color scheme for a dude who doesn’t have a sense of humor, no? (It’s very ’80s-trying-to-be-’40s diner.) Although it’s nice to see that Jakku won’t be a total wall of neutral colors.
The Force Awakens score recording is (likely) complete
Calling all knitters: Free pattern for The Force Awakens hat
You know you want to make this: A free pattern for a The Force Awakens knit hat by Hannah L on Ravelry.
Get The Force Awakens look: Chewbacca
Allure already took a look at Rey, but now we get the film’s real diva: Chewbacca. Maria Cork, creature department hair supervisor, has the scoop on Chewbacca’s many products.
Roundup: The broadsaber is venting, and other things we learned about The Force Awakens this week
Between Wired’s J.J. Abrams interview, Entertainment Weekly and all those TV spots, we seem to have officially entered the “faster, more intense” phrase of The Force Awakens marketing. (No, you haven’t seen too much, calm down.) Here’s some stuff that got sidelined:
→ Settle your bets: The crossguard blades on Kylo Ren’s lightsaber “are raw power vented from the primary central blade,” per the description on display at Disneyland’s Star Wars Launch Bay. (IGN has a tour.) We already knew he built it himself, but the design is “ancient.” (via Reddit)
→ Speaking of Kylo, we haven’t seen much of Adam Driver lately, but he did tell Vulture that he found SDCC to be “intense” and “surprisingly moving.”
→ The Force Awakens is skipping some early award shows, says The Wrap, but the only one here you may have heard of is the Screen Actors Guild Awards. It will be out in time for consideration for the Academy Awards.
→ Variety says there was indeed new music from The Force Awakens in the Shondaland spot.
→ The cover for The Force Awakens novelization has been spotted on the Random House catalog (by Roqoo Depot first, I believe) and it’s… The poster. ‘Kay.
And in other movies…
→ Could Episode VIII return to Ireland? We know they’ve already shot on Skellig Michael, RTE thinks they’re looking at another location in County Kerry as well.
→ Jedi News claims to have the codename for Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s Han Solo spinoff.