Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have taken on the huge task of releasing a new movie on the same day as "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." So they made a behind-the-scenes "Star Wars" parody video to give it some love. It's amazing.
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"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has taken over the fashion world.
Disney Consumer Products and Bloomingdale's partnered to create "Force 4 Fashion," a fundraising initiative.
Eleven designers created 12 outfits (Rag & Bone created two) inspired by characters from the upcoming "Star Wars" film to be auctioned off on CharityBuzz.com from December 2 to December 18, the day the film is released. The proceeds from the auction will go to Child Mind Institute.
All of the pieces will appear in Bloomingdale’s 57th Street windows in Manhattan starting December 3.
Take a look at the 12 outfits below and see how the characters acted as inspiration:
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Interest in “Star Wars” is at a fever pitch with the upcoming release of “The Force Awakens,” but that is just the opening salvo of the plans Disney has for the franchise.
Over the summer news broke that a Han Solo spin-off chronicling the younger years of our favorite space scoundrel (Harrison Ford, who reprises the character in “The Force Awakens”) is in the works with “The Lego Movie” directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller at the helm.
Now there’s an update on the project.
More than 2,500 actors have auditioned for the project, according to the Hollywood Reporter, including recognizable names like Dave Franco (“Neighbors”), Miles Teller (“Fantastic Four”), and Nick Robinson (“Jurassic World”), to name just a few.
According to the THR story:
"The casting team is said to be looking for someone who looks at least a bit like a young Ford (now 73, he was 35 when the original Star Wars was released) and can be funny and charming as well as handle the expected action scenes. A few young comedians have been asked to read."
And casting directors are not just looking at American actors. They’ve also brought in Canadian and English actors to read.
Regardless of who gets the part, it’s going to be hard to fill Ford's boots. And because of that, it makes a lot more sense to cast an unknown for the role, rather than an actor we're familiar who will be judged as soon as the casting is announced.
But THR reports that Lord and Miller are taking “a 180-degree turn” from J.J. Abrams’ strategy of casting mostly unknowns for the new roles in “The Force Awakens” (John Boyega found attention with the 2011 British sci-fi film “Attack the Block”).
The untitled Solo project begins shooting January 2017.
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What started off as an unlikely underdog story turned into a phenomenon that changed the world.
While Hollywood expected "Star Wars" to be a huge flop in 1977, it ended up, as we know, one of the most financially successful films of all time, and kicked off a franchise that can't be killed.
"The Force Awakens," the seventh film in the "Star Wars" saga, will be released on December 18, 2015. Expectations are incredibly high. No less a Hollywood mythmaker than Steven Spielberg thinks it could be "the biggest movie ever."
While George Lucas gave up control of the franchise in 2012, he still made a tremendous profit off of it. That is not just because he created the original story. Lucas gained control of licensing and merchandising rights before "A New Hope" was even released. This smart move ultimately turned him into one of the most successful people in the entertainment industry.
This is the path that George Lucas took that turned him into a billionaire.
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It turns out Carrie Fisher wasn't the only member from the original "Star Wars" cast who had to shed pounds for "The Force Awakens."
In a Rolling Stone story on the latest movie in the "Star Wars" saga (out December 18), Mark Hamill revealed that he trained for two years before shooting began on "The Force Awakens" to reprise his role as Luke Skywalker.
From the story:
"He seems to have lost a good 50 pounds, but he doesn't want compliments: 'It implies that I looked so dreadful before!' 'Look at what I'm eating now instead of potato chips and bagels,' he adds, gesturing to a fruit-and-vegetable plate. 'I'm on the "if it tastes good, don't eat it" diet.'"
Hamill, 64, sings a different tune than Fisher, 59. While speaking about her weight loss to play General Leia in the movie, she said:
"They don’t want to hire all of me – only about three-quarters! Nothing changes, it’s an appearance-driven thing," she said. "I’m in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say get younger, because that’s how easy it is."
But Fisher has reason to be weary of the demands on hear appearance. Never shy to speak her mind — especially about what she had to go through for the original trilogy — she has revealed that she had to lose 10 pounds just to get the role in the first "Star Wars" movie, "A New Hope," and it took her 10 years to appreciate her slave costume in "Return of the Jedi."
It's tough to say if we'll see Hamill showing off his physique in "The Force Awakens," as the appearance of Skywalker in any of the promotional material has been ominously scarce.
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Fan theories are rampant in the weeks leading up to the premiere of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," but now we know one character who will definitely survive.
Warning: Major spoilers ahead for "The Force Awakens."
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy confirmed Captain Phasma (played by Gwendoline Christie) will be seen again in future films.
Though we don't know much about Captain Phasma's role in the upcoming movie, fans were concerned she may go the route of Boba Fett and Darth Maul— iconic villain characters killed off in the previous films.
We do know Captain Phasma will be a commanding officer of the Stormtroopers. Her uniform is a silver chrome, instead of the usual white and black. Kennedy said of the female captain: "She’s an important character, a baddie in the best sense of the word."
Fans can bet she will be a villain, which is part of why this reveal from Kennedy may come as a surprise. It's unusual to go into a movie experience with assurance at least one of the villains will survive.
The primary bad guy in "The Force Awakens" is Kylo Ren (played by Adam Driver). Hopefully at least his fate can remain a surprise.
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There's still a few weeks left to wait for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," but a group of fans in France have found a great way to pass the time: a competitive lightsaber league.
Founded in September, the Saber Sport League describes itself as France's premier lightsaber school. If you speak French, definitely check out their website.
Keep reading to learn more about these light-wielding warriors.
Lots of "Star Wars" fans are anxiously excited for the newest film in the franchise. That's because the last time the franchise was revived by George Lucas', everyone got a bad taste in their mouth. So the worry is, 'will J.J. Abrams' stab at "Star Wars" be equally abysmal?' We brought in Ryan Britt, author of the book "Luke Skywalker Can't Read: And Other Geeky Truths," to weigh in on just that question.
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In the modern blockbuster world, post-credits scenes have become very popular. The films made by Marvel Studios are arguably best known for it, but fun stingers have also been found in the "X-Men" franchise movies as well as the latest "Terminator." Because of this, some have wondered if this could be something new for the "Star Wars" series as well… but now J.J. Abrams has definitely put an end to that conversation.
The subject came up when Abrams was on stage for a "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" press conference held today in Los Angeles. The filmmaker was directly asked if fans can expect to see a post-credits scene or Easter Egg at the end of the sequel, and he quickly dismissed the idea, saying:
“No, there’s not. All the scenes are actually in the movie.”
Those of you who have been following updates and stories about "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" for a while will note that this dispels a rumor that has been going around for the last few months. Back in September it was rumored that the latest saga film would actually be teasing the first "Star Wars"story, "Rogue One." This made a degree of sense, given that the Gareth Edwards-directed feature has been filming since this past summer, and will surely have a good amount of footage ready by the time "Force Awakens" arrives in theaters. Now it sounds like that post-credits scene definitely isn’t happening – so instead maybe we can just expect the blockbuster to come with a trailer for the eighth live-action "Star Wars" movie during the coming attractions.
Post-credits scenes are definitely fun for fans, and a good incentive to get people to stick around and watch the credits – but I can’t say that I’m too upset that "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" won’t have one. After all, they aren’t exactly part of the franchise’s tradition (none of the previous movies have stingers), and it’s not a device that has to be used all over Hollywood. If everything the movie has to say can be fit between the opening scrawl and the end credits, more power to it.
Surely there will be some fans who will be disappointed by this news, but hopefully they’ll all get over it fairly quickly. After all, the feelings about the lack of a post-credits scene should be drowned out by the excitement that comes with the fact that we’re now less than two weeks away from the theatrical release of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." As always, stay tuned for more about the movie, including our on-camera interviews with the cast and J.J. Abrams!
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Following reports that some of the biggest decision-makers in Hollywood got together in a secret meeting to come up with ways to address gender bias in the industry, the L.A. Times now reports that the "Star Wars" franchise is actively looking to hire females for the creative side of its upcoming projects.
WME agent Adriana Alberghetti, who was at the secret gathering, told the paper that since then, she's set up meetings with four female directors and three female writers for upcoming "Star Wars" films.
Those "Star Wars" projects could be for the episodes in the saga following "Episode VII: The Force Awakens," which opens on December 18, or the franchise's anthology films. Remember, a director slot is still open for the the spin-off project that "Fantastic Four" director Josh Trank left (if you believe the rumors, it's supposed to focus on Boba Fett).
This makes sense, given Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy's comment earlier this year that "There’s nothing we’d like more than to find a female director for 'Star Wars.'"
Lucasfilm appears driven to have diverse voices lead the saga going forward. That is evident with the casting of John Boyega and Daisy Ridley, a black man and a woman, as the main leads in "The Force Awakens."
And according to another L.A. Times story, Kathleen Kennedy confirmed that the female villain in "Awakens," Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie), will be in "Episode VIII."
"She's an important character," Kennedy told the paper, "a baddie in the best sense of the word."
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The Force is still with George Lucas — or at least he's apparently on board with "The Force Awakens."
According to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, Lucas, who sold his company to Disney in 2012 and was not involved in the new Star Wars film, will attend the premieres this month in Los Angeles and London. Lucas has seen the film, Kennedy tells The Hollywood Reporter, and "he really liked it." Lucas has expressed some ambivalence about the direction of the new films. In an interview with CBS in November, he said he submitted ideas for the new films but "ultimately, they looked at the stories and they said, 'We want to make something for the fans,'" Lucas said. "People don't actually realize it's actually a soap opera and it's all about family problems — it's not about spaceships. So they decided they didn't want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing so I decided, 'fine. ... I'll go my way and I let them go their way.'"
Kennedy says it's been tough for Lucas, who was intimately involved in the first six "Star Wars" films, "watching this go on without his direct involvement. At the same time, he really wanted to step away."
She adds: "If there's one thing I've learned about George is it's that he's never, ever held back. Having him 100 percent on board is up to him and he can't do that unless he's running everything."
Because he wasn't involved in the film's creation, there has been speculation in the Star Wars fan community about whether Lucas would publicly endorse "Force Awakens," the first in a planned once-a-year series of "Star Wars" sequels and spinoffs from Disney and Lucasfilm.
He told the Washington Post earlier this week that he hadn't seen the film and was better off having not been involved. “There is no such thing as working over someone’s shoulder,” he said. “You’re either the dictator or you’re not. And to do that would never work, so I said ‘I’m going to get divorced.’ . . . I knew that I couldn’t be involved. All I’d do is make them miserable. I’d make myself miserable. It would probably ruin a vision — J.J. [Abrams] has a vision, and it’s his vision.”
On watching The Force Awakens, he told the Post, “I gotta go to the wedding. My ex will be there, my new wife will be there, but I’m going to have to take a very deep breath and be a good person and sit through it and just enjoy the moment, because it is what it is and it’s a conscious decision that I made."
Now that Lucas has seen The Force Awakens, he has joined an exclusive circle that includes star Harrison Ford, friend and collaborator Steven Spielberg and top Disney executives. (Even "Star Wars" spinoff directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and Episode IX director Colin Trevorrow have said they haven't seen the film, and "Episode VIII" filmmaker Rian Johnson and "Star Wars: Rogue One"'s Gareth Edwards only have viewed a rough version).
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens," directed by Abrams from his and Lawrence Kasdan's script and starring original franchise stars Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher and newcomers John Boyega, Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver, opens Dec. 18.
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As a lifelong "Star Wars" fan, Ashley Eckstein was thrilled to be cast in the animated show "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" as the voice of Ahsoka Tano in 2008.
But when she started attending conventions and press events for the show, she had a problem many fans might relate to: she couldn't find any stylish "Star Wars" merchandise for women.
"I went shopping and literally came up empty-handed," she said. "I did my research and there was nothing."
So Eckstein wound up shopping in the boys' section — but she also decided to do something about it.
Now, she's turned that frustration into Her Universe, a multimillion-dollar company that designs and sells women's clothing not only for "Star Wars" fans, but also fans of the Marvel, Doctor Who, Transformers, and Star Trek franchises.
It wasn't easy for Eckstein to get licensing rights for Her Universe. In fact, it took three tries before Disney and Lucasfilm granted Her Universe permission to use "Star Wars" imagery. Eckstein was rejected twice because she was applying for the license as an individual and not as a company — "they literally canceled the meetings before I even got in the door," she said.
Then, she decided to partner with a company called The Araca Group to create Her Universe, and Lucasfilm relented.
"I have to give Lucasfilm so much credit because at the time, nobody wanted to touch the female fan base," Eckstein told TI. "I had another licensee tell me, 'We have the license for girls but we don't make anything [for them] because we don't make any money off of it.'"
But Eckstein had an inkling that clothes that went beyond the typical pink logo T-shirt would strongly resonate with female customers.
The references to "Star Wars" in Her Universe's clothes can be subtle, like on this BB-8-inspired bomber jacket, or more overt, like on this Chewie pullover. But they're always more interesting than other women's Star Wars clothes that Eckstein says "treat the female customer like an afterthought."
"It was like, 'Okay, well, we've designed these 15 shirts for boys. I guess we should design one for girls,'" Eckstein said. "What they didn't realize is they weren't giving female fans what they wanted. I knew what I wanted and I wanted that Darth Vader 'Empire Strikes Back' poster on a T-shirt. I wanted that 'Star Wars' logo on a blue T-shirt, not a pink T-shirt."
And Eckstein's approach — designing the clothes she wants to wear — is working. Her Universe made $200,000 in sales its first year, she said, and is now a multimillion dollar company.
Her Universe is available online and at Hot Topic, but in the beginning, Lucasfilm would only grant a license for Eckstein to sell her products at fan conventions. Eckstein says this was the best move in the long run because it created a demand for her products before they even hit the mainstream marketplace.
"We needed the fan base first," Eckstein said. "We had a call to action with our army of fan girls and they spoke with their dollars."
Now, Her Universe's goal is "to make girls geek chic from head to toe," Eckstein said. "The thing about someone who calls themselves a 'Star Wars' fan is it's a lifestyle. It's part of who you are. Hi, I'm Ashley, I like to cook, my favorite color is blue — and I'm a 'Star Wars' fan."
Like all other fans, Eckstein is gearing up for the premiere of "Star Wars — Episode VII: The Force Awakens." Despite being a "Star Wars" actor and licensee, though, she's not going to an A-list party or early premiere. Instead, she's excited to watch at a showing with fellow fans at Disney World.
"I'll be there with my lightsaber," she said. "I'll be one of those people."
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John Boyega is a "Star Wars" fanboy.
And now, the 23-year-old from London is living out his dream as Finn, one of the lead characters in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
Before Boyega was cast as the runaway Stormtrooper in the newest addition to the "Star Wars" galaxy, he was building his name with indie projects. He made his feature-film debut when he was 19 in "Attack the Block," a British sci-fi comedy written and directed by Joe Cornish. He earned praise for the role, which landed him on director J.J. Abrams' radar.
With the December 18 release of "The Force Awakens," Boyega is primed for his shot up the Hollywood ladder.
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Don’t worry, "Star Wars" fans. Jar Jar Binks won’t make an appearance in the new "The Force Awakens."
During a press conference for the new movie in Los Angeles, producer Kathleen Kennedy confirmed the goofy character from the 1999 prequel, "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace," will not appear in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
At the presser, someone asked what won't be making it into the new film, Reuters reports, and that's when the truth came out.
"Jar Jar is definitely not in the movie," said Kennedy, according to Reuters.
Previously, director J.J. Abrams joked about inserting the character into "The Force Awakens."
"I have a thought about putting Jar Jar Binks’s bones in the desert there,"Abrams told Vanity Fair. "I’m serious! Only three people will notice, but they’ll love it."
Kennedy also confirmed there won’t be any Ewoks — the adorable, teddy-bear-like creatures in 1983’s "Return of the Jedi."
“That’s because Harrison [Ford] insisted on it,” Kennedy joked.
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C-3PO almost wasn't a British droid.
In a new interview for New York magazine, Anthony Daniels, the actor inside the C-3PO suit, revealed that director George Lucas had imagined the robot sounding like he was from the Bronx, not the UK.
Daniels first traveled to the US to re-record the lines for "Star Wars" ("Episode IV: A New Hope") in 1976 because the costume muffled anything he said, and that's where he learned about Lucas' displeasure with his voice.
“I walked into the sound producer’s stage on Highland and the engineer said, ‘Huh, interesting. We spent a couple of months trying to find a voice for your part because George really hates it,'" Daniels said. "But he had the generosity of spirit to change his mind. Had it not been for that, I wouldn’t have been in 'Episode V.'”
Lucas didn't change his mind about replacing Darth Vader's voice, however. James Earl Jones' voice substituted that of David Prowse, the actor who initially portrayed Darth Vader.
In the interview, Daniels also admitted that he originally wasn't interested in auditioning, but his agent told him, "Don't be stupid."
After showing up for the five-minute audition, Daniels ended up staying for an hour and liked a painting of C-3PO by conceptual illustrator Ralph McQuarrie. "He [C-3PO] seemed a bit lost. He had a vulnerability that attracted me," Daniels said.
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Of the many new "Star Wars" films in the pipeline, one of the most highly anticipated is a prequel centered around Han Solo. He is the first character in the "Star Wars" universe to get his own movie.
Nobody knows who will be cast as young Han Solo. Rising stars such as Dave Franco ("Neighbors"), Rami Malek ("Mr. Robot"), and Miles Teller ("Whiplash") were among the 2,500 actors who reportedly came out to audition for the part.
The reason the number is so high is because this is one of the most coveted roles in Hollywood. This is the role that made Harrison Ford an icon. He'll reprise his role as Solo in the upcoming "The Force Awakens."
The still untitled Han Solo movie will be directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller ("The Lego Movie"). It will be out in theaters on May 25, 2018.
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It can feel like just about everyone in the country has marked down December 18 as the day "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" comes out. Yet there are two studios that are brave enough to take it on.
Universal has the Tina Fey-Amy Poehler comedy “Sisters,” and 20th Century Fox has “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip,” both coming out the same weekend as "Star Wars."
You can’t get more counter-programming than that.
It’s safe to say both studios are looking more at the long game with these titles rather than any impressive box office their opening weekend. (Neither would comment for this story.)
But looking at history, there are some interesting motivations for why both of these companies are poking a stick at the giant.
Fox is the old distribution home of the “Star Wars” franchise, before George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 for over $4 billion. Fox might be thinking that, coming out a week before Christmas, "Alvin" can be the option for the kids market in that week going into the holiday (by then many schools are closed for the holiday).
Universal has a little more teeth in the game. The latest movie to star the extremely popular duo of Poehler and Fey, “Sisters” is the ultimate girls-night-out movie, as opposed to the fanboy-crazed “Force Awakens.” Universal might also be confident from the last time they went up against a testosterone-heavy actioner.
In mid-May, Universal's “Pitch Perfect 2” went up against Warner Brothers' “Mad Max: Fury Road” and the Bellas took the opening-weekend box office with $69.2 million.
Now, no one at Universal thinks they will prevail over "Star Wars," but there is confidence from people within the studio who talked to BI off the record that "Sisters" can do well after opening weekend.
Also going for "Sisters" is the fact that it's R-rated, which gives it a core audience that's older and historically skips over a film’s opening weekend.
“I could see ‘Sisters’ opening in the mid-teens against ‘The Force Awakens,' same for ‘Alvin,’” Jeff Bock, senior box-office analyst at Exhibitor Relations, told Business Insider. “But it baffles my mind why any studio would attempt to cross paths with ‘The Force Awakens.’”
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Even though he had nothing to do with the actual production of the movie, as "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" draws ever closer, George Lucas has been at the forefront of the minds of many people. We want to know if he’s seen the film, we want to know what he thought, we want to know if he’ll come to our holiday party.
But it’s not just fans who are thinking about Lucas, contemporaries like Francis Ford Coppola are also reflecting on their peer, and "The Godfather" director has one big issue with the "Star Wars" universe, namely it’s impact on Lucas as an artist.
In a revealing talk with Screen Daily, the "Apocalypse Now" director talked about the future of filmmaking and how the next leaps and bounds can’t be made without experimentation, taking chances, and daring to fail. He then lamented that Lucas, once a boundary pusher, got caught up in the machine, saying:
"George Lucas was a very experimental crazy guy and he got lost in this big production and never got out of it. I still hope that he made so much money out of it that he will just make some little movies. He promises me that he will."
After graduating from the University of Southern California, Lucas and Coppola founded American Zoetrope together (before he eventually started Lucasfilm) with the idea of working outside of the Hollywood system they viewed as oppressive. During the early stages of his career, Lucas was definitely more into making abstract, daring films, experimenting with cinema verite, visual tone poems, and other artistic endeavors.
Though he started off in this realm, it didn’t take long for Lucas to fall into a more straightforward narrative realm. His first feature, "THX-1138" is a dystopian science fiction film, but his next effort, 1973’s "American Graffiti," was specifically written to appeal to more mainstream audiences—it was a challenge from Coppola. From there he never really looked back, and though Star Wars pushed what you could do with special effects, it definitely helped usher in the era of blockbuster filmmaking.
This is kind of the nature of the industry. Hollywood is prone to finding new, exciting filmmakers working independently and bringing them into the realm of big budgets and all the cinematic bells and whistles. Hell, it may even be more pronounced today than ever. It used to be that a filmmaker would have to make at least a couple of movies before being brought up to the cinematic equivalent of the major leagues, but now studios are hasty to hire any hot young director.
Colin Trevorrow only had one indie feature under his belt, 2012’s "Safety Not Guaranteed" before being handed the reins on "Jurassic World;" and Gareth Edwards went from 2010’s "Monsters," which had a budget of under $500,000 dollars, to "Godzilla" in 2014, a movie that cost $160 million.
Sometimes the results are positive. Ryan Coogler went from indie drama "Fruitvale Station" to the studio-backed "Creed" with fantastic results. On the other hand, sometimes they aren’t, as is the case of Josh Trank, who went from the low-budget sci-fi flick "Chronicle" the mega disaster "Fantastic Four," which didn’t work out well for anyone.
Since he sold Lucasfilm for north of $4 billion, Coppola is right, George Lucas can do just about anything he damn well pleases at this point. Maybe we’ll see something totally off the wall and boundary pushing from the filmmaker again in the future.
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Owning a Death Star comes with some serious risk, especially when it was constructed with a serious design flaw. But astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a more practical reason why the 'Star Wars' Death Star didn't quite make sense.
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