First Look at Several New Star Wars: The Force Awakens Books!
StarWars.com has an exclusive first look at multiple new novels, art books, visual dictionaries, and sticker collections, with which fans can find out much more about the new characters, vehicles, and worlds of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The books are coming December 18! Read on for the details.
From StarWars.com:
The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Step inside the Lucasfilm art departments for the creation of fantastical worlds, unforgettable characters, and unimaginable creatures. The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens will take you there, from the earliest gathering of artists and production designers at Lucasfilm headquarters in San Francisco to the fever pitch of production at Pinewood Studios to the conclusion of post-production at Industrial Light & Magic — all with unprecedented access.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary
The complete guide to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, this Visual Dictionary reveals all of the characters, creatures, droids, locations, and technology.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Ultimate Sticker Collection
Join the heroes of the galaxy on their amazing adventure. Explore incredible worlds, meet bizarre aliens, and face sinister new villains.
Star Wars: Before the Awakening
A companion piece to the Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens character novels, Star Wars: Before the Awakening is an anthology book that focuses on the lives of Rey, Finn, and Poe before the events of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Star Wars: Rey Meets BB-8 (Level 1 Reader)
Rey’s life is turned upside down when she meets a little droid named BB-8.
Star Wars: Finn & Rey Escape! (8×8, w/stickers)
When Finn and Rey find themselves on the run, they must work together to escape from the evil First Order.
Star Wars: Han & Chewie Return! (8×8)
Everyone’s favorite smugglers are back! Han Solo and Chewbacca return in a heroic new adventure set in a galaxy far, far away.
5-Minute Star Wars Stories
Blast off into hyperspace with these 11 action-packed Star Wars tales! Jedi Master Yoda has a lightsaber showdown with the dreaded Count Dooku; Luke Skywalker and the Rebels race against time to destroy the Death Star; and the brave but lonely Rey makes a new friend when she meets the astromech droid BB-8. Each of these stories is the ideal length for reading aloud in five minutes — perfect for galactic adventures at lightspeed.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Flashlight Adventure Book
Grab your flashlight and discover hidden surprises as you explore planet Jakku with Rey, Finn, and BB-8. This box set features a board book with pop-ups on every spread, and a real working flashlight that plays five different sounds from Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Lightsaber Rescue
The galaxy is in trouble again! Activate your lightsaber and help join the fight! The Lightsaber Rescue storybook features a non-removable lightsaber module with six sounds to bring the story of Star Wars: The Force Awakens to life.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Mix & Match
Captain Phasma, Kylo Ren, Poe, Rey, and Finn are featured in this book that blends spectacular action with three-panel pages to create confounding combinations! Mix and match the heads, bodies, and legs more than 200 different ways to create crazy mash-ups between the Resistance and the First Order!
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Rey’s Survival Guide
Complete with stories, secrets, and insights, this guide will immerse readers in the world of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Discover what you need to survive the hostile planet, Jakku. What secrets lurk inside the ship graveyard? What do you want to salvage? What should you avoid to stay alive? Includes gatefolds with exclusive artifacts including starship schematics and more!
Still to come on 12/18: Star Wars: Finn and the First Order; Star Wars: Look and Find; Star Wars: The Force Awakens Incredible Cross-Sections; Star Wars: The Force Awakens New Adventures; Star Wars: The Force Awakens Adult Novelization, Star Wars: The Force Awakens Junior Novelization
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So the E-11 after 30 Years gets replaced by the F-11D…Very creative I guess?
The M16 hasn’t changed a lot over the last 50 years.. minus the upgrades ofcourse
The Designation makes no sense at all whatsoever. That the faux. Its the same Model but more advanced and upgraded. It´s clearly an E-XX Model X. But whatever….Many details are looked over without much deep thinking at all.
I kind of want to know what you two are talking bout.
Bah! Where is that trailer???
Maybe in October.
Maybe on December 18th!!
No time to troll.
Maybe for the season2 premier for Rebels. That would maximize viewers for the show, right before tickets go on sale
maybe never hahaha!
My bet is Oct 8th when the Star Wars Battlefront beta finally opens up. Would be smart if they aired it during the Walking Dead season premiere.
I was thinking October 14th, with Rebels Season 2. Having said that, when JJ made Star Trek: Into Darkness, the trailer didn’t come out until 6 weeks before the movie (which would make it early November), and it didn’t give away much (which is how trailers USED to be!)
People always think “oh, tie the trailer with some big other thing.” NO. You don’t tie TFA trailer with anything. You give it its own day. You want everyone focused all day on the TFA trailer, losing their shit over it and talking about it… for days. And you don’t want something else distracting from that.
They did the exact opposite with all the prequels.
Middle of October, coincide with advanced ticket sales.
I think it might debut before Agent s of Shield Season 3, but that might just be my wishful thinking.
Why does everyone want a trailer, a synopsis and for every rumor to be confirmed?? Why can’t you all just wait and be surprised? What a concept!
Maybe because deep down, we’re all little kids who just can’t wait for Christmas morning so we can open our presents 🙂 I’m with you, I’m happy to go in and be surprised. The only thing I’d like to see in a trailer is one brief scene of Luke Skywalker wielding his green lightsaber, just to finally kill that rumour that won’t go away…
It’s so close now I really don’t need/want another trailer.
This is not the idea behind my post. I just want a trailer with a dialogue and a sense of plot, not a synopsis, just like in every other movie. I am a huge fan and I do not mind if I get spoiled in any way because I will like the film no matter how bad or good it is. I survived the Attack of the Clones, I can survive anything JJ dares to throw at me.
Not a lot of new information really.
I think the story – which was rushed – is probably so easy to figure out that they are really trying hard to keep it covered. There’s probably a twist or two in there as well that’s being guarded. Just a hunch. Plus JJ’s inane Mystery Box thing. Hoping the box ain’t empty this time like every other JJA movie…
That before the awakening book seems to me the most interesting one
Yay for the running stormtrooper copy and paste! Kinda wish they incorporate him into even more merch and promotional material.
I hope he becomes a meme, like Left Shark. Running Stormtrooper.
Where’s the dang trailer already!?!
JJ won’t let us open the Mystery Box until he’s ready!! I just hope for once the item inside the box isn’t a crappy movie 😉
Couldn’t be worse than Attack of the Clones.
Getting that Phantom Menace vibe…
Me too!
Me too! The vibe for TPM was damn good, it was the film its self which failed to live up to the hype – excluding the opening Jedi Knight sequence and the Duel of Fates, those two scenes are all timers in my opinion.
Me too! The vibe for TPM was damn good, it was the film its self which failed to live up to the hype – excluding the opening Jedi Knight sequence and the Duel of Fates, those two scenes are all timers in my opinion.
Loved TPM, always will. Hoping TFA reflects some aspects of that film as well as ANH.
If TFA is the love child of TPM and ANH I’ll be pretty happy (:
Word!
You love TPM? You must have some pretty good will power to be able to stand that movie; power to you, I guess.
TPM served it’s purpose. It laid the ground work for the story. Should have been directed by someone else but it is what it is. BTW, I’m an OT veteran. 7 years old when I saw ANH!
I agree that it served it’s purpose, and then some. I do wish George Lucas had called TPM “Episode 0” though, so that we got one more movie after Revenge of the Sith, with Darth Vader suited up and hunting down the remaining Jedi.
Yeah, Vader out and hunting Jedi… the “BIG” story connecting PT to OT.
In ANH all Obi says is that Vader “helped” the Empire hunt down & destroy the Jedi — the idea of Vader personally assassinating Jedi is a “fan canon” thing. Lucas never elaborated just how Vader “helped” the Empire. He could have done no more than oversee the actual hunters or located them through the Force. We don’t know.
Well, he literally swept through the Jedi Temple on Couruscant hunting the Jedi left within so the idea of Vader personally assassinating Jedi is in the movies. Do you think the Younglings were left cooped up in that room undefended? Nope. He killed the Jedi that were on guard with the help of the clones along with all the other Jedi there. Also, as per Rebels, which is just as canon as the movies, he is an active part of the process of hunting, trapping, and killing leftover Jedi.
According to Filoni the Inquisitors are there for that purpose, Vader is only sent to kill important Jedi, but most of those were killed in Order 66. I don’t see the Temple slaughter as part of the “purge”–it was a shit-test by Sidious to bind Anakin/Vader to the Sith.
Ok, well the statement that you just referenced from Filoni that Vader was only sent to kill “important Jedi” while overseeing Inquisitors who killed the rest still blatantly states that he assassinates Jedi. Also, it really doesn’t matter how “you ” perceive the Temple slaughter, it was still very much a large part of the Jedi Purge both literally and symbolically. Being a test of Anakin/Vader’s fealty to Palpatine and the Sith was certainly a part of it, but that doesn’t lessen it’s part or importance in the Purge.
I didn’t offer it as anything other than my interpretation 🙂 As Obi says “Vader HELPED the Empire…” It wasn’t his full time job. That was my original point. Thru the old EU and Fanon that line mushroomed into Vader personally, doggedly, hunting down each and every Jedi. Post PT and TCW it’s become clear that the Jedi/Sith were *never* the only Force users and tracking down every single one was never possible. I think this came from only having the OT. Many fans imagined the Jedi as being like Buddhist monks, dispersed throughout the galaxy with no real hub or bureaucratic hierarchy, not too great in number–just perfect for Vader to locate and assassinate. I think it’s clearer now that keeping the Force in the hands of the Sith was a more complex, ongoing operation that wasn’t as simple as tracking down and killing CW-Era Jedi. Just a few thoughts…
Having other directors didn’t make More American Graffiti, Tucker, Willow or Radioland Murders perfect –maybe the PT is just what he wanted them to be and they’re fine as they are? As you say – it is what it is. I happen to love what it is 🙂
It requires no willpower to enjoy a beautiful and brilliant film. Never had a problem with it. Epic in scope, insanely ambitious in conception, stunningly beautiful to watch, packed with interesting characters and novel situations, filled with everything I love in a story (myth, heroism, whimsy, imagination)–with the same cheeky retro space opera style as the original films. A truly great fantasy film IMO.
It’s all starting to remind me of the advertising saturation from PM. All the plush toys and coloring books. I hasn’t even come out yet and it’s like star wars overload already.
Nobody noticed the “Phasma Blade”? WTF?!
Turns out it’s a “Plasma Blade” (:
Oh fuck me, you are right
Captain Phasma with a lightsaber would be an awesome image to behold though!
I can 100% gaurantee it will happen, go check out the old Ralph Mcquarrie artwork of the chrome troopers with white lightsabers.
Wonder if Han and Chewie spend the entire movie just hangin out in that one shot. Looking into the distance and saying things like “We’re home.”
And when they’re not on the screen, the audience should wonder “Hey, I wonder if Han and Chewie are home?”
“Dude, where’s my Falcon?”
I’m curious about “Star Wars: Before the Awakening”. If the book tells too much of the backsground story of Finn and Rey, there won’t be much room for a “I am your father” kind of surprise on Episode VIII. Of course there is no reason why there should be any secrets left for future episodes, but I’d assume the director and the writers would like to keep a few.
That’s the problem I’ve had with all new expanded universe material. It won’t be until after all the new films come out that anyone can really take free reign of the space between vi and vii, because they won’t have to tip toe around what’s been revealed and what hasn’t.
Remember the leaked photo of Adam Driver wearing a rebel pilot’s uniform? Haven’t heard anything about that for a long time.
Funny you mention that because I could’ve swore that was Adam Driver that Leia was talking to in the behind the scenes footage when we first see her
Do you know, that never occurred to me. I just went and watched it again. You can’t see the guy’s face, but it just might be!
I think the “Before The Awakening” stories, are going to be the new trilogy equivalent, of stories about Luke, Leia and Han’s lives before the events of A new Hope. Learning about their early life wouldn’t necessarily spoil any surprises.
Finn’s picture holding the lightsaber on the cover of “Star Wars Lightsaber Rescue” seems to be different from the snowy forest scene. Could it be an indication that Finn will actually wield a lightsaber more than once ?
I’m guessing that it was simply a picture that he took in promotional stick photo shoot, to promote the movie, you know.
When comes the new trailer? October?
Probably; that’s when tickets go for pre-sale.
I am loving Han’s leather jacket/coat. But seriously in 30+ years is he essentially wearing the same exact look? white collared shirt and military trousers? Don’t get me wrong it’s still sexy as hell to me, but a change up would have been nice.
Every image we see has been leaked at some point. We’ve been played!
that picture of han and chewie makes harrison ford look super old. Way older than he looks in real life
Looks pretty accurate to me.
Yep, there is something badly wrong with his hair compared to the on-screen look at the end of the second teaser
If you zoom in, you can tell it’s a painting not a picture. That’s why it looks so weird.
It’s the oil paint filter in Photoshop. That’s why it looks so weird.
An anthology is an unusual choice for a prequel to the film but they haven’t done those for so long in Star Wars that I kind of like the idea.
You sure that’s not just her bent leg?
I think he’s joking.
I’m glad they’re releasing these on the 18th, so they can cover the entire film. I’m so tired of books based on movies that haven’t come out yet, because half of what would have been in it gets trimmed. Why sell it?
The Prequels had books released a month or more before the films were released that contained every detail, including the Art of books that had full scripts and the novelizations. I get that they don’t want ep7 leaked early, but I miss having the choice to read the books before seeing the film. The fun of the books for me was getting the story before the film. It never took away from the theatrical experience for me.
Lol.
Rey’s staff is called a quarterstaff.
There sure is a lot of focus on these particular characters from the marketing department… Isn’t this supposed to be a sequel trilogy and not a “reboot”? Please don’t just give us 2 minutes of Luke at the end of the movie
Because they are the Han, Luke and Leia of this trilogy. They are being introduced as the new generation of the saga. The old characters are there only to pass the baton.
I get that totally.. and I like these new characters. At the same time, we have yet to see much at all of Luke & Leia at all since the hoopla started. Han & Chewie a little bit but not much at all. Perhaps Disney has a plan to roll the main OT marketing push closer to release. Passing the baton is fine and expected – but at the same time, it shouldn’t mean the OT characters should be treated as footnotes.
I agree completely, my big draw for this movie is to first see and hear and experience the OT characters that I fell in love with as a 7 year old girl in ’77. Give me that salve and then accepting the new characters and seeing the baton being tossed is okay by me. But, give us 40-something-year-old fans out here some closure, some swan song if you will. We deserve that much.
Among the OT characters, I believe Han is the only one who will get considerable screen time in Episode VII and will be one of the movie’s leads. I expect Luke to play a major role in Episode VIII though (whereas Han, if rumors are right, might not be there at all). I still don’t know about Leia. As suggested in another thread, there seems to be a perception that Carrie Fisher is being intentionally sidelined because she is perceived as unreliable.
I agree with you about Han’s screen time. I think this decision in the end is more about marketing the film than nostagia. Star Wars fans are like , “Oh sweet, Han!” “Wait a minute, where’s Luke? Leia?”
They are still touching on our fanboy nostalgia with Han, and even if Luke and Leia aren’t prominently featured, we still get our OT nostalgia fix. On the other hand, the casual movie-goer who may not know anything about Star Wars (yes, as hard as it is to stomach, these people actually exist) may be more interested to see the film in part because Harrison Ford is in it – more so than say Hamill or Fisher whom they may not be as familiar with.
I say introduce Luke in VII and make him shine a little more in VIII, meanwhile allowing Ford to help bridge the gap between the trilogies with his presence in the film. I think Leia will be more of a behind the scenes player in this trilogy, though she obviously will get some screen time as well.
It’s interesting how she is now referred to as General Organa (ref. Moving Target) in this new era instead of “Princess”, “Senator”, “Chief of State” or some other government title. This suggests that she has probably had a harder 30 years than originally presented in the EU, which would be a clever way to explain how she has aged so drastically in comparison to the others.
Her military title suggests that things didn’t go as planned with the New Republic, and her surname suggests that she may not have ended up with Han as most of us assumed, whereas in the post ROTJ EU she was referred to as Leia Organa Solo.
i totally agree with you about luke, have him in 7 but shine a bit more in 8, and perhaps 9. as much as we’re all chompin at the bit for ep7, we gotta look at the bigger picture. a tease of luke in 7, and then a more prominent role in 8, while torturing us now lol, would lend itself to an exciting saga – goodies to look forward to.
Exactly. I will hate it if that’s what they DECIDED to do — no reason why Luke can’t be in it for at least a half hour along with Han and Leia and they can’t all interact while still focusing on the new characters.
i dont really think theres any need for them to be in it at all really , probably only there because the makers will get death threats from wackjobs if they arnt. … theres a new story to be told and itd be sad if it couldnt be told because people dont want new.
Im fine with Luke having a limited role since we know he’s returning for episode 8, which may very well have an even larger role for him. its a fine line, the amount of the ole cast that would be effective. from what we’ve heard, we’re getting a good deal of han, and luke may be more limited but itd suit the story that luke would be mysterious, not in the forefront, and circumstances draw him out so to speak (whatever the heck they may be!). Plus we have him to look forward to in at least another movie. im very excited for this – to even have our ole heroes at all is just amazing.
Please let Luke be in it for more than just a cameo and let the OT cast interact!! Anything else is lunacy!
making star wars is shit
check out this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDOZV_N2Pl8
Still ranting about this eh? I’m more impressed that instead of crowbarring them in for nostalgia’s sake… they may actually be used correctly for the narrative’s sake. Meaning they’ll be in there for however long they are important.
Which should be perfect. You have to accept they are super old now. There is only so much you can actually do with them!
The entire reason behind doing another Star Wars film is nostalgia (with $$$$$) and I wasn’t aware of the unwritten rule that said the movie/story could only be good if Luke Skywalker – the face of Star Wars – was only in it for 2 seconds and didn’t interact with the original cast at all.
I wasn’t aware there was an unwritten rule that said the movie could only be good if Luke was in it more than 2 seconds. I think you missed my point entirely as said I found it good that they didn’t create something just for the sake of it. Which is way more important. Don’t just alter the story to crowbar something in. Make sure it works first.
I respect that far more than saying… we need Boba Fett at some point in this movie because he’s to cool not to! That’s bad writing 😛
You don’t seem to understand that all of this is being done entirely just for the sake of it — there didn’t need to be a sequel to Return Of The Jedi, there did not need to be a Star Wars 7, so arguing that Luke, Leia, and Han should all have cameos and barely be in the film because anything else is just putting them in there for the sake of it is hypocritical and beyond the point.
The movie may very well be good with only 2 seconds of Luke in it. A movie may be made about C3PO giving a two hour lecture on racism, and be awesome, but it will be disappointing to me because that’s not what I want out of a Star Wars movie.
Well at least you’re honest that it’s something YOU specifically want. For me… even as an OT fan I just want it to be good and I don’t need Luke, Leia or Han for that to happen. It seemed like a nice bonus that they’d be in there at all… even though honestly I felt they could be the biggest liability.
Either way it seems designed around the idea that some of their roles get bigger as the story goes on. Sometimes less is more. You want Luke to appear powerful and mysterious? Let your imagination fill in some of the blanks. It’s why the OT was so special. All we had to go on was a the little bit Obi-wan told us.
Look what going into detail did in regards to the PT. There you go… there is your unneeded story.
Either way you’ve expressed it something that’s very important to you so I can’t sway that. I just hope the film is good period.
I don’t need them to have scenes together but it would be dissapointing if they don’t as they have had in the movies thus far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=749&v=SDOZV_N2Pl8
proof all the shit rumours we have been getting is fake
I stopped believing everything that MakingStarWars.net said a little while ago. If you go back over their Episode VII posts from around November 2014 to March 2015, there are a lot of contradictions there, especially when it comes to the role of Luke Skywalker in the film. It’s interesting to read, but at the end of the day, I’m sure a lot of it is rubbish. It’s just a shame that people are putting so much weight on their stories, as if they are all 100% fact.
What I find interesting is that when MSW described the two teaser trailers, they got a lot of it right (have to give credit where it’s due), but they also got a fair bit wrong (which their supporters conveniently ignore). However, they must have some credible sources somewhere, to get the parts right that they do. Even JJ Abrams said that unfortunately, some of the rumors that have come out are true. I like how Oscar Isaac said that most of the rumors are “way off”. I hope he is right!
Was Qui-Gon Jinn a Sith (Video)?http://www.theforceawakensblog.com/was-qui-gon-jinn-a-sith-video/
This is ridiculous. There is zero proof and what he says is directly contradicted in canon, which he seems to know nothing of. Sith cannot become Force ghosts, and Qui-Gon was learning from the Force priestesses from Season 6 of The Clone Wars.
Sure is a lot of focus on Rey, which, to me, suggests that her backstory is mostly left to imagination in the film itself, necessitating expansion story(-ies). I’m wondering if Finn is the ACTUAL main lead character, while Rey is more of an enigma within the film. That’s how I would do it anyways, I could have it backwards.
I don’t see a focus on Rey in these books over the others except her Survival Guide. “Rey meets BB-8” is just retelling what we are going to see in the film for kids. And the one book is telling the background on all three new lead characters. And there is also “Finn and the First Order.”
I think Finn and Rey are getting equal attention as they are the main lead characters. I’m surprised there isn’t the same focus though on Kylo Ren who should be equally as important to the trilogy as Finn and Rey.
Do you mean Poe? Kylo is getting plenty of attention.
No, I meant Kylo. “Before the awakening”for example will tell Finn’s, Rey’s , and Poe’s backstory, but nothing about Kylo or who he was before TFA.
Ah. I thought you were talking about overall marketing for some reason.
Perhaps his backstory is being left more open until ep8?
JJ implied that Kylo’s backstory, including how he joined the Knights of Ren, how he built the lightsaber and how he built his mask, would all be told during the movie
Probably because there’s more secrets to his character that they can’t reveal before the premiere of the movie.
He’s been on plenty of the marketing art.
Interesting fact: Kylo Ren’s lightsaber is not actually a lightsaber but a PLASMA BLADE!
It will be interesting to see how it works and how it clashes with lightsaber. Now all that unstable looking behavior makes sense, and in my opinion is even more cooler.
It is a lightsaber. Lightsabers have plasma blades.
Then why the hell wouldn’t they just call it a lightsaber?
Because it is referring to the blade itself, not the lightsaber as a whole. The book discusses the various parts of things.
LOL Good one!
http://img.ifcdn.com/images/db2f5bc23662e50be4be64c9df0b0fd218da135054347c43c8795dbc5cffdecb_1.jpg
I’m starting to get the feeling Kylo Ren’s roll will be that of an unstable but useful fool, who in the end will be taken out like a bitch by his own side.
He might survive. He might not.
Question: How can TFA be an authentic Star Wars film without a blonde haired, blue eyed male Skywalker lead?
This is the most crucial ingredient and in it’s place is the bizarre paring of co-leads (since when does Star Wars have co-leads?) of a white girl with a black guy.
I’m guessing this has some kind of interracial angle?
Someone else said they were getting The Phantom Menace type vibe.
I concur with this except I think TFA maybe even worse.
TPM had no skywalker as a lead either and that was no indication of quality.
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