This is hardly stuff designed to foster record-breaking box-office success of the kind the series is famous for, but we can assume the LucasFilm bigwigs wouldn’t allow Abrams to just call it Star Wars.
It hints that while the seventh Star Wars film will no doubt be monumental, its story is just the beginning of a new cycle. The idea of the force awakening suggests a gentle lead-in to the new trilogy. This, presumably, is very bad news indeed if you are an Ewok. It therefore follows that the evil Empire was not destroyed with the death of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine in 1983, and that celebrations seen on Endor and across the galaxy must have turned out to be rather premature. If the Force needs to awaken, we have to assume that the new Jedi order that Luke Skywalker looked set to deliver after the events of Return of the Jedi did not, after all, come about.
The first thing it tells us is that Abrams may just have sneakily mounted a gargantuan canonical switcheroo, the equivalent of revealing that Jaws is still swimming around somewhere off the coast of Amity Island, or that the overreaching Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark survived having their faces melted off. Moreover, we finally have a title: Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The actors have departed, sets are being dismantled, the movie is in the can and JJ Abrams has probably already departed Pinewood Studios for the LA production cubby hole he’d rather have been working from all along.
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