Gangs seeking to settle debts with Han attack, but the group escape in the Falcon. The Falcon is discovered and boarded by Han Solo and Chewbacca. Rey, Finn, and BB-8 steal the Millennium Falcon and escape the planet. He encounters Rey and BB-8, but the First Order tracks them and launches an airstrike. Finn survives and assumes that Poe died in the crash. As they head to Jakku to retrieve BB-8, a First Order Star Destroyer shoots them, and they crash-land. Upon learning that FN-2187 has no other name, Poe gives him the name 'Finn'. Stormtrooper FN-2187, disillusioned by the First Order, frees Poe, and they escape in a stolen TIE fighter. Kylo tortures Poe using the Force and learns of BB-8. Poe's droid, BB-8, escapes with the map and encounters a scavenger named Rey. Stormtroopers commanded by Kylo Ren raid the village and capture Poe, while Kylo kills San Tekka. On the desert planet Jakku, Resistance pilot Poe Dameron receives a map to Luke's place from Lor San Tekka. Leia searches for her brother, Luke Skywalker, who has gone missing. The Resistance, backed by the Republic and led by General Leia Organa, opposes the First Order. Thirty years after the Galactic Civil War, the First Order has risen from the fallen Galactic Empire and seeks to end the New Republic. Two sequels within the sequel trilogy have been released: The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). The film received numerous accolades, including five nominations at the 88th Academy Awards and four nominations at the 69th British Academy Film Awards, where it won the award for Best Special Visual Effects. Among films' box office adjusted for inflation, the film is the top-grossing sequel of all time in North America. The film broke various box office records and became the highest-grossing installment in the franchise, the highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada, the highest-grossing film of 2015, and the third-highest-grossing film at the time of its release, with a worldwide gross of over $2В billion and a net profit of over $780В million. The film marked an improvement in a reception over the previous four Star Wars films. The film received positive reviews for its screenplay, direction, acting performances (particularly those of Ford, Driver, Ridley, Isaac, and Boyega), musical score, visual effects, editing, and action sequences, although some critics found it too similar to A New Hope (1977). The Force Awakens premiered in Los Angeles on December 14, 2015, and was released in the United States on December 18. Filming began in April 2014 in Abu Dhabi and Iceland, with principal photography also taking place in Ireland and at Pinewood Studios in England, and wrapped in November. John Williams, composer for the previous episodic films, returned to compose the score. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan, co-writer of the original trilogy films The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi, rewrote an initial script by Michael Arndt. The film was produced by Abrams, his longtime collaborator Bryan Burk, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. The film is the first Star Wars film to not extensively involve franchise creator George Lucas, who only served as a creative consultant in the early stages of production. The film was announced after The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Lucasfilm in October 2012. Set thirty years after Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens follows Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, and Han Solo's search for Luke Skywalker and their fight in the Resistance, led by General Leia Organa and veterans of the Rebel Alliance, against Kylo Ren and the First Order, a successor to the Galactic Empire. The film's ensemble cast includes Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Max von Sydow. Produced by Lucasfilm and Abrams' production company Bad Robot Productions, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the first installment in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, following Return of the Jedi (1983), and the seventh episode of the nine-part ' Skywalker saga'. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (also known as Star Wars: Episode VII вЂ“ The Force Awakens) is a 2015 American epic space opera film produced, co-written, and directed by J.В J.

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