J.J. Abrams admits he's containing the number of references in his upcoming Star Wars movie...
NewsWhilst you can be fairly assured that this December's Star Wars: The Force Awakens won't be light on links to the earlier Star Wars movies (the cast alone pretty much guarantees that!), in a new interview with Vanity Fair, director J.J. Abrams has admitted that he's being careful with his references.
Discussing the development of the movie, Abrams said that "we've obviously had a lot of time to talk about what's happened outside of the borders of the story that you're seeing."
"So there are, of course, references to things, and some are very oblique so that hopefully the audience can infer what the characters are referring to," he teased.
However, there's a limit. "We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something", adding that "the key is that references be essential so that you don’t reference a lot of things that feel like, oh, we’re laying pipe for, you know, an animated series or further movies. It should feel like things are being referenced for a reason."
Given the current trend for layered movie universes, where the ongoing narrative tends to fight the existing one, that'll be music to many people's ears.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens arrives in cinemas on Dec. 18.
