J.J. Abrams admitted in a recent interview that there’s something he wished he would have done different with “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
What happened: Abrams told IGN Japan that his first “Star Wars” film could use some changes.
- He said one particular moment stood out to him as something he would have done different.
- Abrams: “I always look at what I have done and see things that I wish I had done better or differently. I wish that Chewie hadn’t walked past Leia in the third act of ‘The Force Awakens’ after Han died. There are things all over the place I always know I could have done better, but that’s part of learning, I guess.”
In the film: Rey and Chewbacca return from the attack on Starkiller base. But Han Solo is not with them. Chewbacca walks by Leia. Rey breaks the news to Leia instead.
Explained: Abrams told Slashfilm why he made that decision.
“My thinking at the time was that Chewbacca, despite the pain he was feeling, was focused on trying to save Finn and getting him taken care of. So I tried to have Chewbacca go off with him and focus on Rey, and then have Rey find Leia and Leia find Rey. The idea being that both of them being strong with the Force and never having met, would know about each other — that Leia would have been told about her beyond what we saw onscreen and Rey, of course, would have learned about Leia. And that reunion would be a meeting and a reunion all in one, and a sort of commiseration of their mutual loss. … Had Chewbacca not been where he was, you probably wouldn’t have thought of it. But because he was right there, passed by Leia, it felt almost like a slight, which was definitely not the intention.”
Yes, but: Don’t expect Abrams to remaster his movies like original “Star Wars” creator George Lucas did, according to Entertainment Weekly.
- Abrams (via NowThis): “At a certain point, you have to say, ‘This is what it is.’ And, for me, the idea of going back and making an incremental change or an adjustment to this or that, it just doesn’t — it’s not interesting to me.”