J.J. Abrams Responds To The Force Awakens’ Criticism

The audiences have criticized Star Wars: The Force Awakens for it cribs too heavily from George Lucas’ original trilogy. But director J.J. Abrams doesn’t seem to find the whole scenario disturbing. In an interview with Hollywood Reporter, J.J. Abrams has finally broken silence about the issue.

Abrams said that he was expecting the criticism from a certain section atleast. “I knew that, whatever we did, there would be a group of people — and I was just hoping and praying that it would be smaller than not — that would take issue with any number of things”, he said, and added, “But I knew we weren’t making the movie for any other reason than we believed that it could be something meaningful and special and entertaining and worthy of people’s time”. He also mentioned that it was imperative to mention the franchise’s past in the flick. He said, “I can understand that someone might say, 'Oh, it's a complete rip-off!'”. He added, “What was important for me was introducing brand new characters using relationships that were embracing the history that we know to tell a story that is new — to go backwards to go forwards”.

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