Yes fanboys and fangirls, tonight’s the night. 32 years since the victory at Endor, the force awakens once again in a new beginning of a Disney-financed Star Wars era, and everyone (except scruffy-looking Nerf herders) is invited for the hyperspace jump.
After months of teasing trailers that raised more questions than answers, and a Hollywood premiere Monday from which the celebrity audience emerged smiling but sworn to secrecy, the franchise’s millions of fans will finally get to see it for themselves.
Disney — who bought the Star Wars franchise from its creator George Lucas for $4 billion in 2012 — has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the plot shrouded in mystery before the general release, which has prompted a backlash against the film’s fearsome publicity machine.
Over here, Star Wars fever has reached several parsecs high, as promotional posters adorn across town, and even inside MRT trains.
A Singapore Mass Rapid Transit train compartment is seen adorned with Star Wars promotional material pic.twitter.com/nRLnmN0Fqx
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) December 15, 2015
Queues for tickets to the midnight screening of the flick tonight started as long as 24 hours before it went live last month, as fans clamour to be the first in Singapore (and way earlier than the rest of the Western world) to watch the movie. Shaw Imax theatres in Lido and JCube will be screening The Force Awakens tonight, and you can bet that some spoilers will escape onto social media tomorrow morning. Here’s a good Chrome extension that blocks any spoilers from Star Wars: The Force Awakens from touching your eyeballs. May the Force be with us all this week.
With text from AFP
