STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS — How Someone Guessed The Title in 2012

The title for the seventh Star Wars film was announced yesterday that title being Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Something is missing that's not obvious: it's the words "Episode VII." The use of the episode numbers was a prominent part of the marketing of the prequel films. With at least one more trilogy and possibly countless spinoff films, it looks like Disney and LucasFilm decided drop that whole episode numbering system and return to the naming convention of the original trilogy. I'm all for dropping the episode numbering — it's cleaner.

A lot of readers were mixed on the title with things tipping toward the negative. A few said the title was obvious and a bit unoriginal. ScreenCrush writer Mike Ryan dug through the internet to find the first use of the title Star Wars: The Force Awakens and found that back in December 2012, TheForce.Net forum user Queen Gimmedala correctly guessed the title.

TheForce.Net reached out to Queen Gimmedala to find out how she came up with the title:

“Ultimately this was a random guess. No inside info or connection to Lucas. But to me it seemed logical that the first movie in this trilogy would need to address the force. I’m a believer that the movie titles in each trilogy closely relate and I suspect this will carry over for the [sequel trilogy].

"So I knew it was going to be 3 words, and the force. I also know that the wording would be vague/ambiguous/old fashioned like all the other six movie titles.”

It seems to me that the guidelines Queen Gimmedala used to guess the title are likely the same ones used by the LucasFilm team. Rumors of a teaser trailer have been circling since before Halloween, so it seems like we'll get out first glimpse soon.

H/T: MTV