Abrams and Kasdan Speak Star Wars

JJ Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan at the DGA

Star Wars: The Force Awakens has already broken box office records in the territories it’s opened in so far and it hasn’t even been out a week yet in the UK and US. Via our friends at collider.com, here’s a video of the discussion between Abrams and screenwriter Kasdan…

Here’s some of the topics touched on by Abrams and Kasdan during their talk:

• Talks about his preparation process and why on-set discovery is his favourite part.
• They talk about the importance of saying less and trusting the audience.
• Abrams on how denial helped him approach the responsibility of directing a Star Wars film and how despite the scale of it they didn’t feel “burdened by the opportunity”
• Abrams talks about how you can never anticipate what will be a production problem on any given day.
• Does he ever find that his perception of a take on the day is different from what he sees later in the editing room?

Collider