Star Wars The Force Awakens Runtime Revealed!!!
Today has served to be a busy day for Disney and Lucasfilm’s with the announcement of the new Star Wars theme park in the works, Enhancements to Tomorrowland and now the runtime of Star Wars The Force Awakens.
At the D23 Expo in the Anaheim convention center, news pertaining Star Wars franchise The Force Awakens current length of the movie, to be precise, since J.J. Abrams and his team are still in the midst of post-production.
CelebNMusic247.com has learned that Abrams want to bring the seventh episode of the Star Wars saga back to its original roots, revealing that the initial cut of the film is running at about 124 minutes
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According to co-writer Lawrence Kasdan, there’s something to be said for brevity and leaving the audience wanting more since the film is currently running at just slightly over two hours in length.
Now of course this isn’t the final runtime and things could shift one way or the other by a couple of minutes, but this is our first indication of just how long the highly anticipated Star Wars pic will be.
Here is a comparison of runtime for the previous six Star Wars movies:
A New Hope – 121 minutes
The Empire Strikes Back – 124 minutes
Return of the Jedi – 131 minutes
The Phantom Menace – 133 minutes
Attack of the Clones – 142 minutes
Revenge of the Sith – 140 minutes
The shorter runtime appears to be yet another way Abrams bringing the franchise back to its roots and further away from the prequels.
Please NOTE: This isn’t the final runtime so “124” isn’t set in stone, but it’s certainly an encouraging update on the status of the film.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens in theaters on December 18th.
Thoughts?
Photo : Lucasfilm via Facebook) Finn (John Boyega) runs from the wreckage of a TIE fighter.
