It was better going in there not knowing any of that stuff, because if there are no mysteries, it’s no fun for fans. If they had, it might have slipped into the book, and they’d have to take it out. They didn’t share any of that with me and I’m glad they didn’t. So they wanted to show how that happened, even in a brief fashion.ĭid they divulge any details about upcoming storylines - like the mystery of Rey’s origins - as background for the book? It was never in the screenplay, but they thought, “Wait a minute - this is something fans are going to question.” Because one minute, he’s not there and then he’s back with the Resistance. No, it was something I was asked to write. As far as you know, was that scene ever shot? Poe’s escape from Jakku is notably missing from the film. You have to expand the story somehow, otherwise you may as well just publish the screenplay. And the scene where Poe gives Finn his name is longer in the book. There’s also a whole bit were we see what happens to Poe Dameron after he ejects from the TIE Fighter when it crash-lands on Jakku. For example, there’s a scene in Maz Kanata’s castle where Chewbacca saves Rey from Unkar Plutt’s attentions. They let me do a great deal there are whole sequences in the book that aren’t in the movie. It was interesting to get more hints about the background of Lor San Tekka, the Max von Sydow character. The book does expand on scenes that aren’t in the movie. Related: Breaking Down the Biggest 'Force Awakens’ BombshellsĪlan Dean Foster (Wikipedia Creative Commons) It’s a real careful dance that I hope fans will understand. If you have a long-running franchise, you don’t want to do anything that restricts your future possibilities. I finished mine, but then Paramount said, “We can’t publish these.” Not because they were bad books or contradicted anything that happened, but because they might restrict something they wanted to do in the third, sixth or 10th film. Simon & Schuster commissioned four original Trek novels that were going to take place in the rebooted timeline after the movies. And if there’s something the creators want to do in the future that might be contradicted by something I’ve invented in the book, it might restrain them. I’m already getting emails from readers saying, “Why didn’t you explain this part?” or “Why aren’t there more details about this sequence?” I would have been delighted to add those details, but if I do that in the official novelization of the film, then it becomes canon. For example, the descriptions of Maz Kanata’s cantina in the book reflects the images I saw, some of which were completed and some that weren’t. I told the studio, “The screenplay describes Rey’s scavenger outfit as being a certain way, but it would be useful if I could see the thing instead of having to invent it - pun not intended - out of whole cloth.” They relented, so I got to see pictures of devices and sets. It always does! I did get to see a fair number of still photos of the settings and the characters in costume. Unlike the two Star Trek films, I didn’t get to see the film while I was writing, which was a shame - it would have made the novelization even better. No, I just saw it on Saturday morning, the day after it opened. Were you at least shown the film in advance? Related: The Wildest (and Totally Untrue) 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Rumors I’m sure we’ll bump into each other one of these days, and talk about anything other than Star Trek and Star Wars. I’ve been on sets with directors making nine figure-plus films and you’re lucky if you can get a midnight meeting with them while they’re eating dinner…. Doing a small film is a 24/7 project, and a film like this more like a 25/7 job. I used the same system when I did the novelizations of J.J.’s two Star Trek movies, so it was quite easy.ĭid you have any direct contact with J.J. It was sent in pieces to me via email, and it was very, very secure. It probably makes the encryption at the NSA look amateurish.
They didn’t say that, but then, that would be part of the secrecy! No, there are a couple of systems that studios use now to send stuff like that. What level of security was required for you to access the script? In my imagination, it involves a flash drive that self-destructs after two hours. Related: ‘The Force Awakens’ Ultimate FAQ
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