With Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker set to release in less than a month, the production team behind the film is now taking a press tour to promote their work. While lead actress Daisy Ridley makes the rounds on late night, Director J.J. Abrams has been busy holding interviews with Good Morning America, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, and more. Each interview holds an exclusive peek into both the film and Abrams himself, making for a detailed look into the process behind the finale’s production.
Let’s start with November 25’s Good Morning America, where Abrams revealed that Episode 9 only wrapped production this Sunday, with the team working up until the final minute on edits and reshoots for the film. When asked about how the movie was reshooting even through October, he responded “Well, don’t say it like that. *laughs* No, I mean, this happened last time as well. We see something, ‘that could be a little bit clearer, that could be a little bit better,’ and if you have the ability to fix the piece, you take advantage of that.”
This should come as good news for fans of The Force Awakens, serving as reassurance that even a late production period doesn’t necessarily mean a troubled one.
Esquire also asked Abrams about finishing the film, where he added that even he hasn’t seen the finished film yet, and “we’ve never done like a test screening.”
That didn’t stop potential leaks, however, with Abrams sharing gossip with Good Morning America about how a Rise of Skywalker script wound up on eBay, with the team needing to buy it back before it reached the general public.
“One of our actors, I’m not gonna say which one- I want to, but I won’t- left it under their bed, and it was found by somebody who was cleaning their place. And it was given to someone else, who then went to sell it on eBay. And someone at the company said ‘you know, there’s a script that looks like a legit script that’s for sale on eBay.’ And they got it back before it sold.”
According to Abrams, the team only had a handful of scripts, each printed on “uncopiable paper,” which means the mistake probably comes down to one of the leads. Whoops! I’d blame Harrison Ford, if not for the ending of The Force Awakens.
Going back to Esquire, Abrams spoke a bit about Rian Johnson’s decisions in The Last Jedi, and fan response to them. When asked about how The Last Jedi’s mission to surprise and subvert affected The Rise of Skywalker, he explained “As a filmmaker, working on Episode IX, amazingly, nothing that he did in Last Jedi got in the way of things that we had talked about wanting to do down the line.” Meanwhile, concerning fan response to The Last Jedi, Abrams called for a greater sense of lenience and acceptance.
“I hope — and I’m sure naively — we can return to a time where we give things a bit more latitude. We don’t have to agree with every single thing to love something…We have to return, I think, to nuance and acceptance. And so I feel like, as a Star Wars fan, do I love every single thing about each of the movies? No. But do I love Star Wars? Hell yes, I do.”
This takes us to Entertainment Weekly, who asked Abrams about the prequel trilogy. Abrams took the opportunity to bemoan Darth Maul’s quick exit from the film series (quickly acknowledging his continued presence in Clone Wars, Rebels, and Solo), while still finding something to enjoy. Here, Abrams talks about his appreciation for the quiet scene where Sheev Palpatine taunts Anakin with the tale of Darth Plagueis the Wise.
“There’s just something about that scene. There’s just two people sitting there. It’s visually interesting. But I just think Ian’s performance in it is spectacular.”
Entertainment Weekly also asked Abrams about the film’s runtime, which has now been cut down from its previously announced 2 hours and 35 minutes to 2 hours and 21 minutes. This takes the film down from its previous place as the longest Star Wars movie, now placing it behind Episodes 2, 3, and 8. However, this doesn’t mean that the film will lack detail.
We see this back in the Good Morning America interview, where the host asked J.J. Abrams about what it’s like directing films for such a dedicated fanbase. Specifically, he asked how it feels to see people scour every trailer for possible secrets.
“It’s incredible how much- and I’m of course only grateful that people care enough to look into this stuff and want it- but it’s amazing how much people read into the small details. Which is the key to doing a movie like this, which is that you want to make sure the details have meaning and matter, because you know that they’re going to be scrutinized, like, really.”
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters on December 20th. For more on Star Wars, here’s how The Mandalorian is using video game tech to change filmmaking, and here’s what we think might happen after The Rise of Skywalker.
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