Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[clayton]

Daisy Ridley was frequently caught singing on-set, much to the amusement of the cast and crew. She revealed that she once lost a bet to director J.J. Abrams that she couldn't go a day without singing.

[sophie]

Chewbacca's first meeting with BB-8 mirrors his interaction with the mouse droid in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).

[cassandra]

Chewbacca rescues Rey and Finn at the end of the last battle. This is the only time he ever sits in the pilot's seat and unambiguously flies the Falcon as the main pilot. Prior to this, he has always sat in the co-pilot's chair with either Han, Leia, or Lando at the pilot controls.

[jim]

In Justin Cronin's post-apocalyptic 2010 novel "The Passage", two characters in a greater group, surviving in a hot desert-like environment, are called "Rey and Finn".

[morris]

Rathtars, the creatures Han is transporting when he and Chewie find the Millennium Falcon, share an ancestry with the Sarlacc from Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).

[jesus]

As of November 19, 2015, the film already made $50 million, just through advance ticket sales. This is double the amount that The Hunger Games (2012) received, which previously held the top spot for most money made from advance ticket sales.

[tamara]

Despite being two of the main characters of the new trilogy, Rey and Poe never interact with each other on-screen throughout the movie.

[darrell]

According to Star Wars The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary, Captain Phasma's chrome armor comes from a melted-down Naboo spacecraft.

[clayton]

This is the first American feature film for Daisy Ridley.

[tammy]

Domhnall Gleeson also appeared in Brooklyn (2015) the same year. In that film, two characters go to see Singin' in the Rain (1952), which starred Debbie Reynolds, mother of Carrie Fisher, and grandmother of Billie Lourd.

[Aaronduthf]

The Hot Rock 1972

Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...

The Hot Rock features humorous, talky, suspense, semi serious and realistic style.

[violet]

The Linguini Incident 1991

A waitress Rosanna Arquette a barman David Bowie and an underwear designer Eszter Balint try to rob a New York restaurant where two of them work.

The Linguini Incident features offbeat, independent film, semi serious, realistic and humorous style.

[Timothyfap]

Made 2001

Two aspiring boxers lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.

Made features funny, humorous, dark comedy, realistic and clever style.

[edgar]

Burglar 1987

Bernice quotBerniequot Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary its discovered that a dead body was in the house she burgled. As shes ...

Burglar features humorous, light, captivating, entertaining and action comedy style.

[ijlpcdygh]

Wise Guys 1986

Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose 250000 they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.

Wise Guys features buddy comedy, semi serious, feel good, humorous and realistic style.

[JamesNelty]

See No Evil, Hear No Evil 1989

A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being ...

See No Evil, Hear No Evil features funny, humorous, light, not serious and slapstick style.

[harry]

Palookaville 1995

Jerry and his two pals Russ and Syd are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelry store heist which exposes their incompetence as criminals a fateful event and ...

Palookaville features humorous, crime thriller, semi serious, realistic and offbeat style.

[moviebuff]

Crime Spree 2003

An out-of-town heist becomes a nightmare for a crew of French burglars when they mistakenly rob the head of the Chicago mafia. Unaccustomed to the ways of the American underworld it is not long before they have the mafia the FBI and a couple of ...

Crime Spree features humorous, funny, witty, stylized and semi serious style.

[linda]

Feds 1988

Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course in which they learn to deal with guns and to recognise crimes. They also get a physical training. It appears that Ellie is a real ...

Feds features intense, melancholic, semi serious, humorous and action comedy style.

[Сontractorcof]

The Fugitives 1986

Coming out from jail Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber no cops can believe he is not part of the action.

The Fugitives features feel good, exciting, witty, sentimental and humorous style.