J.J. Abrams directed Star Wars: The Force Awakens, produced by Lucasfilm and Bad Robot Productions, with a budget of $245 million. It featured the return of original trilogy characters like Harrison Ford as Han Solo alongside a new cast including Daisy Ridley as Rey and John Boyega as Finn. The film was hugely successful, grossing over $2 billion worldwide and receiving positive reviews. Practical effects were used alongside CGI and motion capture to bring the film's creatures and space battles to life.
J.J. Abrams directed Star Wars: The Force Awakens, produced by Lucasfilm and Bad Robot Productions, with a budget of $245 million. It featured the return of original trilogy characters like Harrison Ford as Han Solo alongside a new cast including Daisy Ridley as Rey and John Boyega as Finn. The film was hugely successful, grossing over $2 billion worldwide and receiving positive reviews. Practical effects were used alongside CGI and motion capture to bring the film's creatures and space battles to life.
J.J. Abrams directed Star Wars: The Force Awakens, produced by Lucasfilm and Bad Robot Productions, with a budget of $245 million. It featured the return of original trilogy characters like Harrison Ford as Han Solo alongside a new cast including Daisy Ridley as Rey and John Boyega as Finn. The film was hugely successful, grossing over $2 billion worldwide and receiving positive reviews. Practical effects were used alongside CGI and motion capture to bring the film's creatures and space battles to life.
Producer/production companies: J.J. Abrams, Pippa Anderson, Michael Arndt and Bryan Burk. The production companies were Lucasfilm and Bad Robot Productions. Director: J.J. Abrams Screen Writers: J.J Abrams, Lawrence Kasdan and Michael Arndt Actors: Harrison Ford as Han Solo, Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as General Leia, Adam Driver as Kylo Ren, Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn and Oscar Isacc as Poe Dameron. Budget: $245,000,000 Screens shown on: USA 4,134 and UK 670. Box Office: Worldwide $2 billion, US $937 million. Music: conducted/composed by John Williams. Marketing: there was one teaser trailer released at the end of 2014. The first official trailer was released in the spring of 2015 and the final trailer was released in October 2015. There was also a poster that was released for it. Tie-in products: there was a novelisation of the film that was released. There are also many toys that were released based on the characters and vehicles from the film. There was also a Lego videogame based on the movie. SFX: there were many practical effects used in the film. Many of the creatures and aliens were practical creations. There was also a lot of CGI used in scenes that involved large space battles. Motion capture was used to create various alien characters. Problems: Harrison Ford broke his ankle on the set of the movie when the door of the Millennium Falcon opened and trapped his ankle. It twisted it at a 90-degree angle.