By contrast, Star Wars, for the most part, has the potential to be an all-new vision in a familiar setting. The Marvel universe is raiding published comic books for a years-long master narrative other based-on-previous-films films, from Abrams’s take on Star Trek to recent updates of Robocop and Terminator, often retread familiar stories and feature old characters recast with newer actors. But perhaps an even bigger part of the reason for the fervent fan interest in every drib and drab of info about the Star Wars sequel is that its out-of-whole-cloth nature differs fundamentally from other big-budget franchise reboots. That was really all we knew.” The two men then hashed out the story in conversations as they walked around Santa Monica, New York City, London, and Paris, and kept refining the script even as production began.Ībrams keeps talking about wanting to evoke the feel of the originals rather than the prequels-in the Vanity Fair story, he says he considered putting Jar Jar Binks's bones in the background of a Force Awakens scene. “There were a thousand people waiting for answers on things, and you couldn’t tell them anything except, ‘Yeah, that guy’s in it.’ That was about it. “We didn’t have anything,” Kasdan told Handy. Abrams and the Empire Strikes Back/ Return of the Jedi co-writer Lawrence Kasdan took over, starting from something very close to scratch. As of early November 2013, the studio walls and whiteboards were filled with ideas, but the actual narrative hadn't been set in place.
The writing process apparently was somewhat tortured, with the Little Miss Sunshine screenwriter Michael Arndt making a first attempt but ultimately failing to pull together a script in time.
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