Me and my camera at the Star Wars Premiere!
a very blurry photo of George Lucas but worth it for the reaction of the guy trying to get his attention. 
Carrie Fisher being interviewed in front of the crowd and her own gi-normous poster face.
Simon Pegg talking to JJ Abrahams before the movie. Looks like he’s still angry about the Phantom Menace.
Lucas at one end, JJ Abrahams at the other and about 30 odd years, 3 prequels and every star involved in-between them.
I was lucky enough to be invited (thank you Conor!) to the Star wars Force Awakens European Premiere at Leicester Square last night and I have to say I have never been to a spectacle quite like it. It was out of control insane. The superfans were going absolutely apeshit. It was like the Second Coming and in some ways it was. The cult of Star Wars has been building and building over the years and even the terrible prequels did nothing to reduce devotion and enthusiasm.
Lucas, JJ abrahams and every one of the stars of the movie were there and the stupidly excited crowd went suitably mental for them. In the auditorium it was also a star studded event. Every time you turned your head you saw another ‘A’ lister but they all were all acting like excited school kids. It would appear that Star Wars is clearly bigger than everyone else.
For what was essentially an industry affair, the atmosphere inside the Odeon was buoyant to say the least..at one point they cut to a live shot of nelson’s column which suddenly lit up like a light saber and the audience cheered like a Wembley stadium crowd. The roar doubled when the credits started. There was a young girl behind me screaming incessantly and her mum tried to calm her down and she exclaimed: “I can’t help it!” If the 7yr old version of myself had been there he would probably have been doing the same.
And there you have it. What’s that you say? What’s the film like? I’m afraid I can’t comment. The force has sealed my lips shut.
