Lucasfilms is owned by Disney after it was sold to them by George Lucas in 2012

for $4.06 billion. George formed the company in 1971.The president of Lucas
films now is Kathleen Kennedy. Star Wars the force awakens was written by
Lawrence Kasdan, J. J. Abram's and Michael Arndt and was also directed by J J
Abram's. J J is also responsible for directing Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek and
Super 8. the film was given a uk rating of a 12A.
there have been seven Star Wars films so far, including
IV A New Hope (1977) made $786,598,007 global gross
V The Empire Strikes Back (1980) made $534,171,960 global gross
VI Return of the Jedi (1983) made $572,705,079 global gross
I The Phantom Menace (1999) made $1,027,044,677 global gross
II Attack of the Clones (2002) made $656,695,615 global gross
III Revenge of the Sith (2005) made $848,998,877 global gross
VII The Force Awakens (2015) made $2,058,662,225 global gross
The force received a total of 31.6 million from the uk government, as they
believed it would boost the economy.
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects
company that was founded in May 1975 by George Lucas. It is a division of the
film production company, Lucasfilm, which Lucas founded, and was created when
Lucas began production of the film Star Wars. For many years, particularly during
the widespread inception of computer graphics in film during the 1980s, ILM was
considered the leading industry standard production house for computer
graphics in film; many studios other than Lucasfilm sent scenes to the studio for
CG. It is also the original founder company of the animation studio Pixar.
Star Wars used different types of camera in the film, Arri Alexa (aerial plates)
IMAX MKIII, Hasselblad Lenses, IMAX MSM 9802, Hasselblad Lenses, Panavision
Panaflex Millennium XL2, Panavision Primo, Retro C-, E-Series, ATZ and AWZ2
Lenses. the format used for the force awakens was 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383)
70 mm (horizontal) (IMAX DMR blow-up) (Kodak Vision 2383) and D-Cinema (also
3-D version). IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of cinema projection
standards created by Canadian company IMAX Corporation and developed by
Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr, and William C. Shaw. IMAX has the
capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than
conventional film systems. Since 2002, some feature films have been converted
into IMAX format for displaying in IMAX theatres and some have also been
partially shot in IMAX.
The desert scenes in The Force Awakens were filmed in Rub' al Khali desert, also
known as the Empty Quarter. It's the largest contiguous sand desert in the world.
A large portion of the film was filmed at pinewoods studio in London, James bond
was also filmed at the pinewoods studio, and Daniel crag also stared as a storm
trooper in the force awakens. The final scene in the force awakens was filmed at
the island of skelling Michael of the coast of Kerry in the western Ireland.

Maz Kanata is a CGI character voiced and performed by Lupita Nyong'o who si
famous for her role in 12 years a slave. J J based Maz on his late palisades
charter high school English teacher Rose Gilbert
Andy Serkin's plays supreme leader Snoke in the force awakens, the political
leader of the first order. he is Kylo Rens master and is very powerful in the dark
side. He is best known for his performance capture roles comprising motion
capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated
characters as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
The film score to the force awakens was composed by John Williams with
Williams and William Ross conducting, and Gustavo Dudamel appearing as a
"special guest conductor". The album was released by Walt Disney Records on
December 18, 2015 in both digipak CD and digital formats. john Williams
composed all the soundtracks for all the Star Wars films, including other films like
jaws and superman and ET.
The voice of BB-8 was supplied by comedians Bill Hader and Ben Schwartz both
credited as"BB-8 vocal consultants" in the film. The voice was created by Abrams
manipulating their voices through a talkbox, attached to an iPad running a sound
effects app. Both Dave Chapman and Brian Herring controlled BB-8 in the film by
wearing green suits that allowed them to be taken out after filming.
Ford was paid somewhere in the eight-figure range to reprise his role as Solo.
The amount was between $10 million-$20 million. Fellow alum Hamill and Carrie
Fisher were each reportedly paid in the "low seven-figure" range. Newcomers
John Boyega and Daisy Ridley, who play Finn and Ren, each made somewhere in
the six-figure around $100,000-$300,000. It was also reported that Adam Driver,
who plays Kylo Ren, and Oscar Isaac, a.k.a. Poe Dameron, received offers of
"mid- to high-six figures." Simon Pegg played the character of Unkar Plutt in the
Star Wars film.