Everyone thought Star Wars: The Force Awakens was doomed when the Millennium Falcon fell on Harrison Ford, breaking his ankle. But it turns out that it's a blessing in disguise. Director and co-writer J.J. Abrams recently revealed this delay gave him time to focus on working on an important relationship: Finn and Rey.
"When I was on the set of the Millennium Falcon and we started to do work with Rey and Finn, the first time we did it, it didn't work at all," Abrams said at the Tribeca Film Festival. "It was much more contentious. I didn't direct it right. It was set up all wrong, and when Harrison Ford got injured—which was a very scary day—we ended up having a few weeks off, and it was during that time that I really got to look at what we had done and rewrite quite a bit of that relationship. So when we came back to work again, we actually just reshot from the ground up, those scenes. It was an amazingly helpful thing to get these two characters to where they needed to be."
In the final cut, the two developed a friendly, fun, and respectful relationship that works well.
Abrams also explained that while many fans have complained how The Force Awakens shares a lot of similarities to A New Hope, that was actually the point, and he gets that frustration.
"The weird thing about that movie is that it had been so long since the last one. Obviously the prequels had existed in between and we wanted to, sort of, reclaim the story," Abrams said. "So we very consciously—and I know it is derided for this—we very consciously tried to borrow familiar beats, so the rest of the movie could hang on something that we knew was Star Wars."
J.J. Abrams recently announced that he will be working on a sci-fi film with Daisy Ridley.
Abrams also recently revealed why Mark Hamill almost left Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Via IGN
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