'Star Wars' Event Sees Stormtroopers on the Great Wall; Film Set for January Release in China
This Tuesday, Disney began revving up Chinese fans for Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, ahead of the film's primary release on December 18, and its China release in January. Two hundreds lucky fans, some dressed as Imperial Royal Guardsmen, gathered at the Juyongguan Great Wall, where organizers had arranged 500 replicas of Stormtroopers, Reuters reported. Imagine George Lucas-like terracotta warriors, massed on the Great Wall. Amazing.
The occasion was to mark the release of a new trailer for the film, the seventh in the Star Wars saga, and the first to feature the initial three films' original cast in 32 years. The film will officially be known in Chinese as "星球大战： 原力觉醒," Xing Qiu Da Zhan: Yuan Li Jue Xing. It's a pretty literal translation.
Chinese fans can expect the high-anticipated episode to be released in China in January, the first Star Wars film to play in Chinese theaters. Although Chinese movie fans are keen on films that make significant use of CGI and technological themes, Western science fiction of the 1970s and 1980s has not taken hold in the same way.
