J.J. Abrams, the director behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens, has told The Daily Beast that there will indeed be openly gay characters zapping through the galaxy far, far away — in relatively near franchise installments.
Making the rounds at a pre-Oscars event at his Bad Robot HB in L.A., Abrams said it’s time that the Star Wars universe becomes more inclusive, referencing the LGBTQ community, and thankfully making no mention of Jar-Jar Binks:
“To me, the fun of Star Wars is the glory of possibility,” he said. “So it seems insanely narrow-minded and counterintuitive to say there wouldn’t be a homosexual character in that world.”
That universe has recently introduced a handful of openly gay characters, albeit in a novel offshoot: Author Chuck Wendig had to defend his creative choice to make the lead character in Aftermath a gay man.
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Steve Davies
You mean they are going to make more of the bloody things?
Hector Pagan
Wow that’s good:)
Billy Budd
The force is with us.
SashaVonAndris
Intergalactic gay is not the same as Earth gay, so I’m not crossing my fingers for a “bumpy ride in deep space”…
gababy2
Another gay token character is coming
Michael Golden
Loving this
TrueWords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxVP_U4Vxig
TrueWords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yclItcTip_s
TrueWords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h776nL56EOs
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Yeah but It’ll be a female.. probably Wookie or a droid
Daniel Salmeron
Soon as in doesn’t now?
Paco
It is also long overdue for Star Trek to have a gay male leading character as well. Holding out hope for one in the next television series.
Shawn M. Myers
Wesley Taylor
Ogre Magi
Wasn’t Jabba the Hutt’s brother Ziro was gay?
http://geekleagueofamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Ziro_TCWf.jpg
Ariel Hans Christian
Um IT BETTER BE Bo n Finn…I want “BoFinn” Shirts!!! Before Trump becomes the new HITLER and I can’t be a FULL on homo!
bobbyjoe
@Paco
It bodes well that the new Star Trek series is being overseen by a gay man (Bryan Fuller), but we’ll see.
XzamiIio
Intergalactic Space Faggots.
Brian
Oh, please, enough of this pandering by Hollywood. Hollywood only cares about money. It doesn’t care about being inclusive. It follows the formula that will bring it maximum money.
I think it’s interesting how Abrams sort of holds out the possibility of homosexual inclusiveness but not with any firm timeline as to when it will happen. When was the last time Hollywood included a serious homosexual relationship in a movie – like, 10 years ago? Even then, one of the men got killed at the end of the movie.
Xzamilio
@XzamiIio: Okay, now it’s Obvious who this is.
joeyty
@Ariel Hans Christian: If Trump does become President….and if he reigns like a Hitler… let’s hope he forbids any new crummy Star Wars flicks being made at ALL.
ronniebs
A gay character could be one of the bad guys. Abrams did that in Lost & it wasn’t treated as a big deal.
Michael Paul
Can’t they just watch what Luke Adams does to those Storm troopers in the Star Wars parody? That has scarred me for life – in a good way.
Matt Latessa
as a gay star wars fan i love this sooo much
Stached1
Ugh, JJ Abrams ruins everything he does including Star Wars.
DCguy
“Relatively near franchise installments”
In other words not the next one and he is lying. Hollywood homophobic studio heads will never let that happen.
Remeber, studio heads and the head of Marvel etc… STILL were recently found out to be blocking any movies based around a woman super hero.
No black widow movie, and remember, Sandra Bullock tried to get Wonder Woman made for a decade and even with her clout couldn’t do it.