Did you bang Harrison Ford wore digital hair extension in The Force Awakens ? Well , that ’s just one of the awe-inspiring tidbits J.J. Abrams gives up during an illuminating director ’s commentary that ’ll be available November 15 on the film’s3D Blu - rayrelease .
It ’s definitely worth a listen but , if you do n’t have two 60 minutes to kill , we sifted through character reference motivations , plot teases , and behind - the - scenes stories ourselves . Here are nearly 50 fun and/or enthralling facts we learn about the making of The Force Awakens .
1 ) In early iterations of the flick , Kylo Ren refer his mama and papa to Lor San Tekka in the film ’s first scene . However , it was cut because Abrams did n’t want to give the audience too much too soon .
2 ) The stormtrooper on the correct side of the screen when Poe Dameron is captivate is Michael Giacchino , the Oscar - winning composer of Up and the upcoming Rogue One .
3 ) Abrams said the quick out-of-door scenery of Rey and BB-8 going into town on Jakku was one of the most difficult to put together because the normal challenge os film in the desert , complicated by all the extras . It necessitated a gang of reshoots later at Bad Robot — they’re the abject slant snap of Rey talking about her parents ( “ They ’ll be back . ” )
4 ) There ’s a pocket-sized persistence fault when General Hux and Captain Phasma are verbalise about Finn ’s escape . Before the stab cuts , Hux quickly turns to his left hand for no reasonableness . He does that because he ’s supposed to see Kylo Ren . However , the scene was chopped in half and go around . The 2nd part of it comes afterwards when Kylo teases Hux about the Clone Army .
5 ) Steven Spielberg gave Abrams the thought for there to be a gumption explosion after Poe and Finn ’s TIE Fighter sunk on Jakku .
6 ) Almost all of Finn and Rey ’s first discussion in the movie was reshot because their dynamic had n’t been work out out when they first started filming . Finn rest to her about being in the Resistance , her knowing who Luke Skywalker is , them subtly coquet — that was all added later . Same goes for their playfulness , friendly conversation after scat on the Millennium Falcon , which was interchange from a more contentious version .
7 ) Rey saying “ That ship ’s garbage ” only to after reveal the “ garbage ” is the Millennium Falcon was the idea of producer Bryan Burk .
- Disney and Pixar ’s John Lasseter visualise an other version of the film and suggested to Abrams that BB-8 have more physical funniness . As a resultant role , Abrams added in the now iconic thumbs - up conniption .
9 ) The musical theme of Finn bang the stormtrooper courtship specs and that gas could kill them came from Lucasfilm Story Group penis Pablo Hidalgo .
10 ) Han Solo and Chewbacca ’s first scenery is a blend of chemical element charge before , and after , Harrison Ford ’s injury . Ford had longer hairsbreadth when he return to the set , and as a solution , CG hair extensions had to be added to the conniption Ford filmed before the injury . ( Would n’t a haircut have been cheap ? )
11 ) The planet Takodana is named after Takadanobaba , Japan , a neck of the woods J.J. Abrams inflict on his first trip to Japan .
12 ) Though we see characters standing outside the Millennium Falcon in several location , the actual model never moved . Instead , the area around the full - size Falcon bent was just redressed to await like the different locations it needed to .
13 ) Han , Rey and Finn ’s entrance into Maz ’s castle front like one foresightful take , but it ’s in reality three shots sewn together . And once we ’re inside , the only CG constituent is Maz .
14 ) Maz was inspired by a teacher both Abrams and production architect Rick Carter had at Palisades High School in Los Angeles , named Rose Gilbert . But Abrams stressed they had a veridical problem figuring out what Maz ’s character was going to be , which ask a lot of reshoots .
15 ) In the original script , Maz ’s backstory was more prominent , although Abrams of course does n’t provide any detail .
16 ) The original script started not just with Luke ’s lightsaber falling through space , but it traced the account of where that lightsaber had been and explain how it got to Maz ’s . “ There are other ways we can evidence that news report by and by , ” Abrams teases .
17 ) Rey ’s dreaming sequence , called “ The Force Back , ” ascertain many iterations . One really had her seeing Vader and Luke fighting on Cloud City but in the end , they wanted her to have a more elementary experience filled with thing she could n’t comprehend , but were also truthful . Things like the Knights of Ren and her first time on Jakku .
18 ) Maisie Richardson - Sellers ’ fibre , who we only see for a moment before she perish during the attack by Starkiller Base , was originally tasked by Princess Leia to go to the New Republic Senate and explicate the threat of the First Order . at last , that scene was geld , though it ’s now on the 3D Blu - ray as a deleted scene .
19 ) Abrams let in the shot of the TIE Fighters flying in front of the sun makes no sense lighting or clock wise , but he did n’t care cause he screw it so much . It was one of the first concept images demonstrate to him .
20 ) As you may have read on the Internet recently , it ’s true that on the commentary Abrams pronounce Kylo Ren has never met Rey before . Many hoi polloi take this as trial impression that they did not both educate as Jedi with Luke Skywalker , is false . However …
That ’s potential , but it ’s not the only interpretation . Abrams say , “ They ’ve never met but he ’s heard of this fille . ” Which could stand for they ’ve never ever cope with at all , or could also mean they ’ve never met in this movie . The phrase “ He ’s heard of this female child , ” is describing an event that just happened in the picture . That intimate the first half the sentence could also be curtail to this one cinema . They ’ve never meet , IN THIS MOVIE , but he ’s just heard of her IN THIS picture . It ’s assailable to interpretation for sure , but I slant toward the latter , but because it ’s too adult a piece of info for Abrams to steal up on otherwise . And , if he did , they would have cut or rerecorded it . Point being , I do n’t think anything has been settled on the topic .
21 ) While walking through the forest to find Rey , Adam Driver apparently trip over the rocks a pot because he could n’t see through his mask . Abrams said he used the rage to regulate the character . jubilantly , these shots of Kylo Ren trip up through the Sir Henry Joseph Wood are on the blooper reel .
22 ) It was author Michael Arndt ’s melodic theme to turn a loss the first Leia scene ( mentioned above in # 18 ) because he felt , and Abrams agreed , her reintroduction was more powerful through Han ’s eyes , on Takodana .
23 ) In early versions of the picture show , things were in a different ordering . The scene with R2 - D2 and C-3PO where 3PO explains that R2 is in sleep mode was presuppose to happen after the rathtars , but before the delete Leia view . Once that Leia panorama was take out , Abrams postponed the R2 and C-3PO scene until after everyone gets back to the Resistance pedestal .
24 ) The doctor who attends to Chewbacca ( played by Dame Harriet Mary Walter ) also had a prospect where she healed Rey in the film , but that was cut .
25 ) Originally , Kylo Ren also drive his masquerade party off in the scene with Darth Vader ’s helmet , but he does n’t in the final . Abrams does n’t say if that his mask with digitally enclose into the scene or was reshot .
26 ) The ashes environ Darth Vader ’s masque in Kylo Ren ’s shrine to his grandfather have been much discuss . Abrams order they ’re “ the ash of his victim , ” but whether that means Kylo ’s victims or Vader ’s victims is indecipherable .
27 ) Abrams confirms they have a whole backstory for the Knights of Ren , which is comforting to jazz , even if he still did n’t give any contingent .
28 ) In the Resistance base , when Han Solo suppose “ I like this guy , ” it was in the first place referring to Poe . They re - edited it so Han say it about Finnin edict to carry on to develop that family relationship .
29 ) Abrams film Han and Leia ’s goodbye double . In the first version , he tell to her “ There ’s something I want to secernate you ” and she replied “ evidence me when you get back . ” They changed it because they mat it foreshadowed Han ’s fate a turn too much .
30 ) In the moving picture , Kylo Ren tells a distaff stormtrooper that Rey is just start to test her powers . It ’s a scene that was added later to check that the audience jazz what she was doing .
31 ) Captain Phasma is send to the rubbish compactor off - screen because they did n’t want to toss off the lineament , but had to get rid of her so as to not complicate the climax .
32 ) After they lower the shields , it cuts back to the Resistance base where Leia say “ Han did it ! ” But it was an added line of dialogue so if you find out the flick , there ’s a small distortion over her back talk as she “ says ” that furrow .
33 ) One of the 10 - Wing fighters at the destruction of the film was play by Force Awakens poke editor Stefan Grube , but his helmet was designed by one of J.J. Abrams ’ Son .
34 ) After reuniting , Finn take Rey how she fly the coop . Originally she just say “ You would n’t believe it . ” But Abrams added “ I ca n’t explain it ” to give audiences a glimpse into her complicated feeling about start to use the Force .
35 ) Both Abrams ’ father , and father - in - jurisprudence , are in the Resistance foundation after Han say they should use the bombs .
36 ) The inside of the oscillator is just a remedy of the Star Destroyer hanger set from earlier in the film .
37 ) Like the Leia / Han goodbye , there was a slightly great consequence the last time Han and Chewie see each other . But , again , it was cut to not make it too obvious what was about to happen .
38 ) Abrams was n’t certain what he wanted the place Han and Kylo last adjoin to look like , so it ’s one of the only scenes in the movie shot entirely on a immature screen .
39 ) Abrams ’ comment runway discussion ofwhat Kylo / Ben was feelingwhen he met with Han on Starkiller Base was revealed last calendar month . But it turns out that Jon Kasdan , son of Force Awakens and Empire Strikes Back screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan , facilitate compose the Solo destruction panorama . Now he ’s co - writing the forthcoming Han Solo movie .
40 ) The movie needed a here and now where a character said there were two arcminute until the Resistance Base would be destroy . So Abrams proceed into the hall at Bad Robot and enquire the receptionist if she wanted to come next door and be in Star Wars . That adult female , Felicia , is the one who suppose that line .
41 ) Producer Bryan Burk arrive up with the thought of Luke ’s lightsaber flying past Kylo and going into the hand of Rey .
42 ) Watching an early version of the last engagement , Steven Spielberg ask Abrams , “ Can the trees be falling down around them ? ” Abrams then asked the ocular effect team , who replied , “ If you need to pay off for it . ” They did .
43 ) During the Kylo / Rey fight , when they ’re right-hand in each other ’s expression and Kylo say he ’ll train her , in the first place she replied “ You ’re a teras . ” It was n’t until by and by , in reshoots , that they bestow the second of her close her centre and thinking about the Force .
44 ) Another filmmaker who see the film betimes was Selma manager Ava DuVernay . She suggested Rey needed just one more big , bad ass minute . So Abrams shot , and slip in , a medium scene of her swinging the saber down at Kylo as per her trace . “ It join you to her intensity , ” Abrams allege .
45 ) earlier , there was some footage of Hux going into the wood to get Kylo Ren and escape , but they did n’t finger it was necessary .
46 ) One big regret Abrams has is showing Chewbacca in the frame walking by Leia at the end of the movie . He admits it ’s a misdirection that he ’s there and does n’t hug Leia , which he totally would have done after Han ’s death .
47 ) On the question of how and why Rey and Leia hug at the end , Abrams says that they recognize of each other and were both Force impregnable . So , even though they ’d never met , they were bound by their loss and their strength .
48 ) In the final tantrum where R2 - D2 backwash up and reveals the mathematical function to Luke Skywalker , he ’s completely CG .
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