The full title of the film is ‘ Star Wars: Episode VII – The Order of the Jedi’.
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(Special thanks to Dave Turner for pointing this out to me)
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This is a breaking story from Movie Pilot, they ran it this afternoon without any sources, so, take all this info with a grain of salt, ok? We previously reported on the big official word from the Star Wars website about the casting, but now we have all this other stuff: Abrams’s vision of Star Wars is a dystopia far more disturbing than anything Darth Vader could have hoped for: a universe where, without any real explanation, the vast majority of women are somewhere far, far away.
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If you count up all the significant female characters who appear in the original Star Wars trilogy, the list reads as follows … Princess Leia. Laura Hudson at Wired decided a bit of research was needed: So why is Star Wars Episode VII so very, very dude-y? We can extrapolate that even in a galaxy far, far away and in a time that is long ago that ratio is somewhat the same. Women make up 51% of the population of this planet. Abrams, the man who brought us two of the most kick ass (in different ways) female TV characters of the century (Felicity and Sydney Bristow) couldn’t be bothered to toss more than one new female character into the new Star Wars movie. Julie from Chicago Now wondered "where my ladies at" for her piece:
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When are we going to let little girls and kids of diverse races have fantasies as powerful as those given to white boys? Myths are powerful things, because we learn who we are by telling stories. There is absolutely no reason why there can’t be new characters added to account for the lack of women in the original trilogy and the newer trilogy.Īnnalee Newitz at IO9 quite elegantly wrote: