The Force Awakens is the first sequel to Star Wars since Return of the Jedi (1983), and was produced by the Walt Disney Company after the acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012 with the purchase price of 4.05 Billion Dollars.
The Force Awakens is exactly the kind of movie you’d expect a major Hollywood blockbuster studio to make to earn a return on their investment and therefore it is exactly what the general fans of any franchise wanted: The same old, painted new.
The plot quite essentially almost follows step by step the story of a New Hope with the Rebel Alliance (The Resistance) having a secret map hidden from Galactic Empire (the First Order), who possess a Death Star (Starkiller Base). Those who have seen a New Hope may already guess by now how the movie ends, so what does the movie have anything to speak for itself? Yes it does, the characters.
Daisy Ridley is the Scavenger Rey from a Desert planet not named Tatooine who might become the strongest individual character of the entire franchise. John Boyega plays Finn, a former Stormtrooper who’s had enough of war, Oscar Isaacs plays an inspiring Rebel X-Wing pilot and we have Adam Driver playing Kylo Ren, the quite essential Darth Vader want to be. All these characters are written and acted well enough to be likeable instantaneously and provide familiar tropes for movie goers to be related to. I’m very excited to see where they are going with Kylo Ren’s story the most for instance.
Introducing these new main characters with old characters coming back in supporting roles gives enough juice for Disney to reboot the franchise with a sequel that gives you, just what you’d expect they would.
We can only hope the sequel to Force Awakens will set itself apart from the past and spin its own tale, or we might have a revival to a franchise that does nothing but remind ourselves of the past.
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