Star War: Episode VII - The Force Awakens nearly destroyed Coruscant rather than Hosnian Prime.
Pablo Hidalgo, who is an executive at Lucasfilm and a member of the Lucasfilm Story Group, revealed in a series of now-deleted tweets that "[Bad Robot] wanted [Coruscant] blown up; [Lucasfilm Ltd.] didn't. Hosnian Prime was the unsatisfying middle ground. It happens." Hidalgo later clarified that he should have added "some folks at" to his tweet due to companies not technically having points of view.
In another exchange, Hidalgo was asked if Coruscant might have worked better for The Force Awakens, to which he replied, "It would have been better w/o the Starkiller at all, but that’s a whole nother discussion. But I think Coruscant being in development in other projects was a big reason for the reticence." Hidalgo also agreed with another user that the First Order probably would have wanted to capture Coruscant rather than destroy it.
During the prequel trilogy, Coruscant served as the capital of the Republic. Later, after Darth Sidious/Sheev Palpatine established the Empire, the planet became the capital of the Galactic Empire. Following the fall of the Empire, Hosnian Prime became the capital of New Republic. In The Force Awakens, the First Order destroyed Hosnian Prime using Starkiller Base.
Released in 2015, The Force Awakens kicked off a new trilogy of Star Wars movies, focusing on Resistance members Rey (Daisy Ridley), Finn (John Boyega), Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) and their battle against the First Order, led by General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson), Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). The Force Awakens earned more than $2.068 billion at the worldwide box office and is one of the highest-grossing films ever. Critically, The Force Awakens performed quite well and the movie holds a 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Created by George Lucas, Star Wars began in 1977 with an eponymous film that was later given the subtitle A New Hope. Since then, Star Wars has become one of the highest-grossing and most-beloved franchises ever. There have been nine main line films in the series and two anthology movies. In 2019, live-action Star Wars TV arrived on Disney+ with The Mandalorian. That project has proven such a success that Disney is working on a number of different live-action Star Wars series.
Directed by J.J. Abrams from a script by himself, Michael Arndt and Lawrence Kasdan, The Force Awakens is available to stream now.
Via: The Direct