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“Star Wars : The Force Awakens” director J.J Abrams attended the Visual Effects Society Awards yesterday. Naturally, he was stalked on the red carpet for every media outlet and their dog, keen to get some cool quotes on that big December release.
With Collider, Abrams spoke a little of that triple-bladed Lightsaber we saw in the trailer :
“I will say that what’s been funny is, since the lightsaber’s come out, I cannot tell you how many contradictory emails I have received from people who have both defended it with unbelievably detailed graphics…I’ve gotten things that are nuts, and I’ve gotten people who’ve shown how it’ll kill you and how it doesn’t make any sense. It’s been the funniest thing to see the arguments that have developed over this thing.”
“It was a number of conversations [that led to the design]. It was a sketch that became a whole thing and, you know, this was not done without a lot of conversation and it’s fun to see people have the conversation that we had, but in reverse.”
Abrams also teased the film’s IMAX sequence.
“It’s really one sequence so it’s not a ton [of IMAX footage], but it’s a good sequence.”
The filmmaker said where possible he used practical effects to provide the film’s razzle dazzle.
“There are obviously an enormous amount of CG effects in the film, and I can’t wait for you to see the combination. But it was very important that we build as many sets as we could and that the film have a tangible, sort of authentic quality that you believed that these things were actually happening in a real space with real sunlight, if it was an exterior scene, or if we could build a big portion of a scene and not have anything be blue screen, do it where we could. It was a very important piece of work.”
As for “Star Trek 3”, Abrams hinted that it’s been a blessing having Simon Pegg come on to co-write the script.
“[Pegg] and I had talked quite a bit about story, he had a lot of wonderful ideas. It just sort of felt obvious that he would be a wonderful person to work on the story and help craft the story, so he’s working on it.”
