Shooting has taken place in the UK at Pinewood Studios at RAF Greenham Common and in Scotland. He has described the process as 'a bit like riding a bike that you haven’t been on since you were ten years old'. The legendary John Williams, of course, is writing the orchestral score. So don’t expect to see Admiral Thrawn or Mara Jade turn up. “Could The First Order exist as a group that actually admired The Empire? Could the work of The Empire be seen as unfulfilled? And could Vader be a martyr? Could there be a need to see through what didn’t get done?”Īs a side note, while there are hundreds of “expanded universe” novels set before, during and after the original films, none of those stories or characters will be making it to the screen as they’ve all been declared non-canon.
“That all came out of conversations about what would have happened if the Nazis all went to Argentina but then started working together again?’” Abrams revealed. The First Order, while equipped with Stormtroopers, TIE Fighters, Star Destroyers and similar Imperial accoutrements, aren’t necessarily the same Empire that was unseated at the end of Jedi.
Could The First Order exist as a group that actually admired The Empire? Could Vader be a martyr?
