Star Wars: The Force Awakens China release set for January
The Walt Disney Company announced today that the Star Wars: The Force Awakens China release has been set for January 9, 2016 on screens across the country. Tailor-made for local audiences, a Chinese poster of Star Wars: The Force Awakens was also released today and you can view it in the gallery below.
“We are thrilled to bring ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ to China on January 9th,” said Mr. John Hsu, newly appointed General Manager, Studio, The Walt Disney Company, China. “We’re excited to be rolling out our marketing campaign and to connect with new fans in China through Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
Opening in theaters on December 18, 2015, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is set 30 years after the events of Return of the Jedi, and features a new generation of swashbuckling heroes and shadowy villains, as well as the return of fan-favorite smugglers, princesses, and Jedi.
Directed by J.J. Abrams, the highly-anticipated movie stars 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. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing with Tommy Harper and Jason McGatlin serving as executive producers. The screenplay is by Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be followed on December 16, 2016 by Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: Episode VIII on May 26, 2017, and the Han Solo anthology movie on May 25, 2018. No release dates have been announced for Star Wars: Episode IX or for the third anthology movie. It was recently confirmed, however, that Jurassic World‘s Colin Trevorrow will be helming the third Saga chapter.
You can watch all the previously-released trailers and TV spots for the film by clicking here.
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Photo: Elena Dorfman 2015 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Right Reserved.
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Gwendoline Christie plays the First Order chrome trooper Captain Phasma.
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Adam Driver as First Order commander Kylo Ren, who wields the infamous three-pronged lightsaber.
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Oscar Isaac as ace Resistance pilot Poe Dameron.
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Lupita Nyong’o performing motion capture for CGI pirate character Maz Kanata.
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Galactic travelers, smugglers, and other assorted riffraff fill the main hall of pirate Maz Kanata’s castle.
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J. J. Abrams directs Daisy Ridley as the heroine Rey, who pilots her speeder through a marketplace on the planet Jakku.
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