Star Wars Episode VII Finally Gets Official Name - The Force Awakens

Filming's wrapped and the title is finally locked in.

As they're want to do, the official Star Wars twitter just dropped a Millennium Falcon-sized bomb on the world, announcing the film's official title as 'The Force Awakens', still arriving next year. Shooting apparently recently wrapped too, much to the dismay of the drone camera-operating paparazzi who seem to have been uncovering any number of plot details from the set itself over the last few months. We're yet to see any official images of what either Mark Hamill's revamped Luke Skywalker or Harrison Ford's Han Solo will look like, but it's safe to say that with everything now in the can the hype train's engines can start kicking into overdrive. Back to that title though, and as Episode VII is supposedly set some 30 years after Return of the Jedi, there's any number of possibilities for how we get from the the Jedi-starved worlds of Episode VI to that of I where they're commonplace. Maybe it's just us, but The Force Awakened reminds us of the other ongoing video game franchise that's set in between the two trilogies; The Force Unleashed. It definitely showed the extent of what someone's potential mastery of the Force could be like, culminating in that game's hero Starkiller ripping a Star Destroyer out the sky with his bare hands. Also check out this awesome fan-baiting tweet from C-3PO himself:
We've still another year to wait until it's out on December 18th, 2015, but let us know what you make of the new title in the comments below!
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