A Special First Look at Star Wars: The Force Awakens This Thursday Night on ABC!
With just a little more than a month to go, the wait is almost over, and the excitement is higher than ever, especially after the surprise international trailer and tv spot dropped a few days ago. Well, apparently Disney has something else up their sleeve…
ABC announced today that it will air a new “special look” at The Force Awakens this Thursday night on TGIT with Shonda Rhimes. Keep in mind that this may just be a deeper look for the masses and nothing new to those of us who have been keeping up with the film’s daily production. However, there is certainly a possibility that some new footage will be aired, so keep your eyes open and tune in this Thursday night to ABC.
J.J. may have promised us no more theatrical trailers, but that apparently has no bearing on the TV campaign. Check out a preview for the special in Rhimes’ tweet below.
As a big @StarWars fan, I’m excited for Thurs, as #TGITAwakens with a special look at Star Wars: The Force Awakens! pic.twitter.com/gfYKPTfTEq
— shonda rhimes (@shondarhimes) November 10, 2015
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WELL WAKE UP ALREADY, FORCE!!
Not gonna do it. From this point forward I shall attempt to avoid anymore.
Just in case. 😉
Here’s hoping it’s like an expanded comicon reel and is heavier on the behind the scenes with little new footage.
That would be ok by me. I just don’t want anything spoiled, plot/character wise.
That’s what it sounds like to me. I don’t think they’re going to spend 30-60 minutes spoiling the movie. It’s going to be a more in-depth behind the scenes look with interviews, too.
Can you imagine if they said “oh well, we’ve already sold enough tickets to make our money back at the box office, let’s just put the movie on tv now”?! It would be kind of funny…
Spaceship Earth would be burned to the ground within 6 hours.
Honestly, I think I’ll pass on this one. I’ve seen all the footage I want to. Does anyone know of any carbonite freezing chambers closeby?
It’s only 37 days! We’ve made it this far! (fast forward 2 weeks) OMG THE DAYS ARE DRAGGING ON!
Right because ‘Hope was not lost today…it was found’
I bet there still won’t be any dialogue from Poe (laughs)
Still? What do you mean? We heard him say “Aaaaaghhhh!” when Kylo Ren gave him that poop face so bad, the planet exploded. Duh. 😉
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He’s supposed to be the new Leia but she never cried like a bitch even under torture from Vader (who was an actual Sith Lord) like he seems to be doing here.
Funny, I don’t recall her ever being tortured by Vader. Han…yes. Leia…not ever onscreen.
She was in the Radio Drama. “Her resistance to the mind probe is considerable. It will be sometime before we can extract any information from her”.
No just when he was going into her cell with the interrogating droid…but we saw nothing.
It was implied she was tortured though.
Perhaps…
That’s the whole point… ANH was the gold standard by what it “didn’t” show…
Sorry. I wasn’t aware that getting a shot and being interrogated constituted torture.
I must have missed that day in torture school.
You are mistaken about a great many things…
If you say so. But this never screamed “I’ve been tortured!” to me. 😉
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Whereas this kind of did…
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But at any rate, this is all just fantastic nerd-rage debating on our part.
It’s funny how we got here from my picture of Poe’s Poop Face.
Which brings us back to the point… Leia’s force connection vs Han’s reliance on luck and a “good blaster” by his side… Luke showed the same resilience against the force lightning of the Emperor – he never conceded, he maintained faith in the goodness of his father to ultimately save him… herein lies the beauty of STAR WARS…
Perhaps…but we now know in hindsight that there was a bit of retcon going on there.
Luke taking that lighting from dear old Sheev always bugged me a bit…I mean that is some SERIOUS resistance compared to what we saw in those “other” movies.
Yeah, I hear you… I always felt Mace went down far too easily for such a highly ranked Jedi Master… which is why I wouldn’t be suprised if Mace has some life left in him somewhere in the SW saga… damn, if Maul can get a gig after being cut in half AND falling down a shaft then Mace must still be alive…
Oh god…that whole scene (as portrayed in the film) bugs me to no end.
But yeah, I’ll definitely agree with you on all of that, but I think we can safely assume that Mace’s crusty corpse has been found and dealt with at this point.
And another bunch of crazies has idolised his purple saber, spreading fear and loathing in downtown Coruscant… but that is a story for another day…
I guess we’re all more vulnerable now. lol
Especially to political correctness. How rude of Kylo not to issue a trigger warning within his safe zone. We should boycott this film now.
It was never shown onscreen with Leia, Han sure screamed at his torture in ESB.
I think Vader went easier on Leia as he couldn’t kill her due to being a Senator but Han he could care less about since he was a lowly drug smuggler and probably even more pissed off at him for evading capture.
Think of all those idiots who get caught speeding through traffic then get their skull kicked in by the Highway patrol. Times 1000.
Seriously though… why did Vader torture Han and not Leia in ESB? Leia was the object of rescue in ANH, why would Vader think Luke cared more for Han than Leia…?
Or may I answer my own question… Vader tortured Han to distress Leia and therefore upset Luke via the force… but this would indicate Vader had prior knowledge of Luke and Leia’s relationship… I’ve hit another dead end…
That’s a good theory too. So much going on in the OT that I still haven’t thought of yet. It’s possible he always knew somehow like Leia did that Luke was her Brother. Which would explain why he took his rage out on Han.
But after almost 40 years you have now ruined me… how I can not think of Vader being a pussy in front of Boba Fett by torturing Han and not taking a second crack at Leia… what this amounts to is DEFEAT! Leia had won! No wonder Yoda had faith that there was “another”…
How about that? Just imagine how he’d feel if he ever found out he had to fly ALL the way back to Coruscant on his own after the Death Star exploded and explain to The Emperor in person exactly what jusy happened.
Oh you guys……
Which is the one that shot Vader out of the Death Star trench out of nowhere from behind just before Vader was going to end it all?
Helloooooo
I’m guessing because he thought she was weaker and would break easily or he was embarrased that he couldn’t in ANH and didn’t want to look bad in front of Boba Fett.
Right because ‘somebody had to save their skins’
I never really gelled with Padme and I’m not sure many would care about her had Natalie not played her or she was not the Mom of Luke and Leia.
Rey I like though from what we know of her and seems like a worthy successor to Leia. Might have to do with Ridley seeming more enthusiastic than Portman ever was about the making of the film as well as taking the role more seriously.
Bingo – Natalie saved that role (especially in light of Haydens AOTC tragedy)… Having said that I do feel Hayden ultimately redeemed himself (for want of a better word) in ROTS as a “falling” Anakin…
She carried him alright. Even stranger was that they were supposedly involved but you wouldn’t know it from watching them together. My favorite SW performance of his in in VI since he doesn’t talk. Lol.
Well that just goes straight to the point that Poe has NO force connection whatsoever… if he did he would display SO much more resilience… Does this confirm that Han has no force connection either? He did scream like a beatch in ESB…
That’s a good point too. I heard women have a higher physical threshold for pain as well which makes sense when you think about it.
Oh yeah, that is real… (I jest not). I wonder what would have been the outcome if Vader chose to torture Leia in ESB and she was like… “You haven’t experienced child birth, amatuer…” The really strong characters in SW have always been women – TFA is nothing new. ANH ESB ROTJ had Leia dominate as a female, even when she was reduced to a slave. Padme kicked arse as Queen and Senator and Shmi persevered as a single mother providing the best for her child. There has ALWAYS been strong females in SW, why we still need Daisy to parade around in a Red Dress is beyond me…
Yeah, It gets irritating when they mention it since it’s not like Bond or Transformers where they were purely cast for their looks only and were not integral to the plot. Leia had like 5 figures back before toy companies made female ones.
Yeah, and you could NOT have a SW figure collection/play set without your Leia figurines… she was/is/always will be INTEGRAL to the SW story… what has happened to our world since then???
And now no more Slave Leia merchandise……allegedly.
Poe is not “progressive” enough to speak in the trailers and teasers.
How more special can we get???? 2 years of waiting and I almost don’t want to see anymore!!! LOL
I’ve had enough. I don’t want to see any more either. I doubt there will be anything new in this anyway. Maybe just some interview clips with JJ and others and the same footage we have already seen. This is being played to a pretty wide audience, after all.
This is the crap I could care less about. The moment I see katie Couric or Matt Laure open their mouths and start spitting their predictable “will it deliver?” garbage I am going throw up.
I second that!
Who are this Katie Currie and Matt Laurie that you speak of? They sound like the regurgitated breakfast “news” show anchors we avoid here down under…
Entertainment reporters with delusions of granduer.
Especially when they clearly have no knowledge of the subject and pretend that do. Ugh.
You COULDN’T care less, you mean.
Well Disney has made football fans aware of TFA and now its time to make the women 25-54 that watch that lineup aware of the film as well.
I’m surely not going to catch any of this live.
Thank God for You Tubes
The most I would want to see at this point (until the movie of course) is maybe some interviews from Abrams, Ford, Hamill and so on. No use getting too burnt out on excitement or run the risk of knowing too much more. I just want see the excitement of the cast.
I love that Han is making the same exact face that Indy did when Sean Connery said “Why thank you! It was rather wonderful” after Elsa kisses him in The Last Crusade and can’t hide his disgust.
Ha ha, I got “I thought these things smelled bad on the outside…”… and if anyone makes some stupid reference to Finn then I’m done…
Someone needs to do a Faces Of Ford montage now.
Time to Tweet Pablo Hidalgo.
Thank you! Used to be canon but now I’m not sure. I wish they did one for the PT but closest we’ll probably get are the audiobooks.
That’s a good question, as to whether or not it is canon. I’m guessing that it’s not anymore, but I don’t think that it ever really was filed under canon anyways officially. I mean hell…half of the original novel itself isn’t even really canon, as it was based on early scripts that changed long before the movie came out.
Still makes for a fun read these days, even if some of it does make you scratch your head a bit here and there.
It used to be part of the film canon but I’m pretty sure the transcript and actual recordings are now out of print.
I wasn’t a fan of Perry King’s lisping Han Solo but Ann Sach’s Leia and Brock Peter’s Vader were pretty dead on. I’d like to see I-III with the Clone Wars cast.
The CD is still available on Amazon…just FYI for anyone that may not have a recording of it.
I’d love to hear a weekly Star Wars radio series but I doubt there’s a big enough audience out there to listen.
Interesting idea there.
You never know, they may be. 😉
I guess Smuggler’s Gambit is as close as we’ll get for now.
How about an official Star Wars podcast with new stories every week? The radio show format has been really successful for Doctor Who: why not Star Wars? You can just have stories with original characters, and hire good voice actors to play them, with perhaps occasional cameos from film and TV actors playing their characters. Get on it, Lucasfilm! Podcasts are a very successful medium right now!
I’m surprised they haven’t used that idea yet either seeing as how every Star Wars site does now and it’s the only format they haven’t tried yet.
Who make the worst Charlie Brown cosplayers ever!
His grunts of pain are nearly as hilarious as Stallone’s or Ahnold’s.
He always seemed pretty judgemental always hanging over his shoulder, offering unwarranted advice, and moving his head slowly all the time like that. Probably why I like him.
Also when Marion hits him with the revolving mirror in the chin on board the Bantu Wind in Raiders. That’s my new ringtone now.
You can always trust a man with the stache which is why I’m glad Alex Trebek grew his back.
At work? We really are of the same mind!
You remember Mott Nott Raab fom Episode I? I think they got the inspiration for his look from your profile pic.
If only Beat The Geeks was still on….
Damn near my reaction this morning as my dinner from Asian n Cajun rumbled around in my guts. :/
I heart the “poop face”. It just felt…right. Haha!!
I actually HAVE the radio drama! I just started listening to it again a couple nights ago…I didn’t get very far into it though, but thanks for reminding me!
I’m diligently trying to spread the word of “Poe’s Poop Face”. I want EVERYONE to see it.
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Seriously.
Each of us easily loses about an hour or 2 of our lives for each 30 seconds of content released.
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A cup of coffee? YES!!! I KNEW there’d be a Starbucks down there! There’s one every god damn where else, right? 😉
Would you like fries with that?…
Only if they are good and salty, and perhaps a little garlic and pepper as well. 😉
Chicken salt FTW…
That works too! I’m pretty easy going with my fries.
Indeed. Alright…I’m off to rummage for some grub.
Peace out. I’m sure we’ll find something to argue about later at some point. 😉