Star Wars Questions

1. Disney brought Lucasfilm in 2012 and now owns it.

2. George Lucas founded Lucasfilm in 1971.

3. Lucasfilm was formed in 1971.

4. Kathleen Kennedy became the President of Lucasfilm in 2012.

5. Lucasfilm have worked on the Indiana Jones franchise, the previous 6 Stars Wars and American Graffiti.

6. Lucasfilm was sold for $4.06 billion.

7. Michael Arndt wrote the original screenplay and in 2013 Lawerence Kasdan and J.J. Abrams took over.

8. J.J. Abrams also directed the film.

9. J.J. Abrams has also directed Star Trek and its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness as well as Mission: Impossible 3 and Super 8.

10. Including The Force Awakens there have been 7 Star Wars films: Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return Of The Jedi, The Phantom Menace, Attack Of The Clones and Revenge Of The Sith.

11. Star Wars released in 1977 made $775. 4 million in box office.
The Empire Strikes Back released in 1980 made $534.1-385.4 million in box office.
Return Of The Jedi released in 1983 made $572.6 million in box office.
The Phantom Menace released in 1999 made $1.027 in box office.
Attack Of The Clones released in 2002 made $649.4 million in box office.
Revenge Of The Sith released in 2005 made $848.8 million in box office.

12. The first Star Wars (named Star Wars) was released in 1977.

13. ILM stands for Industrial Light and Magic.

14. ILM is a computer graphics and a computer graphics studio. Its effects are used in many films and by many film studios.

15. George Lucas created ILM.

16. George Lucas created ILM because he wanted his own films to feature and amaze audiences with effects that had never been see before. He created the studios because the in-house effects departments at 20th Century Fox no longer operated, so he with John Dykstra created ILM to do this.

17. The casting directors are responsible for finding the perfect cast. They have to find the absolute best actors for the roles, such as finding Daisy Ridley to be Rey. This film had 3 casting directors: Nina Gold, April Webster and Alyssa Weisburg.

18.The first scenes of the film were filmed in the Abu Dhabi desert in United Arab Emirates.

19. Star Wars The Force Awakens was shot on a 35mm film and 65mm IMAX format.

****20. The film was shot on IMAX cameras for some of it and the rest was shot on Kodak film for a more natural look.

21. Pinewood Studios was used for all the inside shots and most of the film.

22. Pinewood Studios is in West London.

23. James Bond is the massively successful franchise that Pinewood is famous for. Some of the Harry Potter, Marvel and Pirates of The Caribbean films have also been shot there.

24. These films all link to Star Wars as they are the fantasy action genre. All the films are fictional and include a lot of effects.

25. J.J.Abrams based the character Maz Kanata on his high school English teacher Rose Gilbert.

26. Maz was filmed entirely digitally.The actress Lupita Nyong'o's movements are monitored and scanned to create the final effect. To do this she has to wear a motion-capture suit.

27. Lupita Nyong'o plays Maz and she is well known for role in 12 Years A Salve as Patsey.

28. Andy Serkis played General Snoke.

29. He is very well known for motion capture acting, animation, and voice work for computer generated characters.

30. The final scene was filmed in Skelling Micheal Island in Ireland.

31. John Williams composed the film score.

32. John Williams has composed the film score for all the other Star Wars films.

33. He has also created film scores for Jaws, Jurassic Park and the first 3 Harry Potters.

34. John Boyega auditioned 7/8 times for the role of Finn according to J.J.Abrams.

35. John Boyega's auditions took 7 months before he got the role.
36. There were two different versions of B-B8 in the film. The puppet version was operated by two puppeteers and the radio control version was operated by three people each with their own remote.
37. B-B8 uses a gyroscope technology to define which direction is down and uses two wheels to move.
38. The B-B8 operators had to wear a green suit.
39. The operators had to wear this colour suit so they could blend into the green screen and be edited out easily.
40. J.J. Abrams did not want to overload the film with a lot of special effects and the main aim was to do everything as manually possible to link the film back to the feel of the original trilogy. They used less green screens preferring to use sets, models and painting instead allowing everything to be shot in camera. They did use some CGI and character animation but mainly it was done as practically as possible.
41. About 200 people watched behind the monitor when Chewie and Han Solo were reunited with the Millennium Falcon.
42. Simon Pegg was thanked at the end of the credits for his role as a alien dealer on Jakku as he was a good friend of J.J. Abrams, a massive Star Wars fan and also helped a lot round the set.
43. IMAX is an widescreen cinematic technique which creates a much larger image (around 10x) than the 35mm film.
44. Star Wars The Force Awakens was shown on around 400 IMAX screens.
45.The rage rating was a 12.
46.UK government gave around 31 million to help fund The Force Awakens and this was about 15% of the production costs.
47. Harrison Ford was paid $25 million and 0.5% of the films global earnings.
48. Daisy Ridley and John Boyega got paid $450,000 each.