Star Wars: The Last Jedi teaser trailer has unleashed a 'storm' of nerd troopers in a frenzy! Damn, that was one helluva pun! Anyway, have you watched the teaser yet? The SW franchise fans are right now watching the teaser in loop eventhough it released last night. To commemorate the 40th year of Star Wars, the team decided to celebrate in Orlando, Florida by holding an event. At the event, they also released the teaser and poster. Present at the event were Marl Hamill (duh!), Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, George Lucas, Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams, and Peter Mayhew. It surely was a night to remember as even Harrison Ford, who has never attended a single celebration of SW, decided to drop in.
Warwick Davis, who was hosting the panel, teased Ford about his landing skills. Davis said, “I can’t believe we kept this a secret, considering you landed your plane on I-4.” Joining in on the fun Ford quipped, “But it was a good landing.” Just to jog the memory, Ford has been recently warned by the US Federal Aviation Administration over landing on the wrong part of a Southern California airport. Ford was also involved in a crash in March 2015 when he landed the plane on a golf course. Davis was not the only one taking a jab at the readily available opportunity. Peter Mayhew, who plays Wookie Chewbacca in the original trilogy posted an image with Ford on his Twitter account. Captioning the image, Mayhew volunteered to be his co-pilot in real life too. Check out the pics here.
Director George Lucas and Ford also revealed how the actor got the part of Han Solo. Ford had worked with Lucas in American Graffiti. But, now a cult favourite, the movie did not do wonders for Ford. He went back to carpentry work. Lucas said that a casting director urged Ford to hang around outside his office until Lucas gave him a job. Ford rubbished the anecdote and corrected Lucas by saying that he was working on a door for Francis Ford Coppola’s art director as a favour when he spotted him there. “I love you, but I wasn’t going to wait around for you,” Ford teased Lucas.
A special tribute was made for the late Carrie Fisher. Creator George Lucas summed it up beautifully, “She was a princess, she was a senator, and she played a part that was very smart. And she had to hold her own with two big lugs, these goofballs who were screwing everything up. But it was her war.”
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