The Force Awakens Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Dark Side of the Force makes its presence known. Kylo Ren star Adam Driver takes the stage, as well as Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux, a character never before revealed, and Gwendoline Christie as the chrome Stormtrooper Captain Phasma.

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Gleeson says simply: “I’m evil. He’s British. So, yeah.” Hardwick says General Hux is using a large weaponized machine that contains something, but Gleeson doesn’t take the bait to reveal more.

Later he says Hux is “in charge of people on a Starkiller base, whu – uh-oh, hang on. Is that all right?” he says looking at Abrams.

Abrams shrugs. “The name of the base of the First Order, in honor of the original last name of Luke Skywalker, is Starkiller Base – spoiled by Domnhall Gleeson.”

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/10/comic-con-star-wars-force-awakens-panel/4

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

GENERAL HUX
A young, ruthless officer in the First Order, General Hux has complete confidence in his troops, training methods and weapons.

http://www.starwars.com/databank/general-hux

STARKILLER BASE
An ice planet converted into a stronghold of the First Order and armed with a fiercely destructive new weapon capable of destroying entire star systems.

http://www.starwars.com/databank/starkiller-base

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

GamesRadar - Domhnall Gleeson says Star Wars’ General Hux is “merciless”

http://www.gamesradar.com/domhnall-gleeson-says-star-wars-general-hux-merciless/

 

[Notacar]

Glad they're continuing the tradition of British bad guys with sideburns.

 

[Great Mind(s)]

I find it interesting they emphasize how "evil" he is, considering the MSW rumor that had 4 of his credible sources confirm until *something* changed MSW's tune

 

[sueb1863]

Domnhall seems really nervous about accidentally revealing spoilers ever since

Spoiler

he let the Starkiller Base name slip!

 

[WC Avengers]

Glad they're continuing the tradition of British bad guys with sideburns.

I was happy they have British accents also. It feels more like the OT.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

I was so in awe of the people from the original trilogy. They were my heroes as a kid. I giggled like a schoolgirl when [Harrison Ford] was around. He’s an amazing man so that was just incredible. I had worked with Oscar Isaac before when we did Ex Machina together. There's no way to know if fans will be satisfied with this movie, that's the bitter truth. We put our heart and soul into it. I saw how hard everybody was working on it. I think it’s got a shot.

http://www.instyle.com/news/meet-cu...st-see-movies-star-wars-revenant-and-brooklyn (September 30, 2015)

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Fan site: Jedi-bibliothek - Possible family history of General Hux from Episode VII

Spoiler

In The Awakening of power Domhnall Gleeson is the General Hux play, a young officer in the service of the first order and one of the main antagonist of the film. The new youth novel Star Wars Rebels: Servants of the Empire 4: Imperial Justice of Jason Fry delivers a very probable family history for Hux, through a possible ancestors. Since it is book spoilers who might not want to read every one we've packed times in a Spoilerbox. Do not worry, the output of Zares search will not reveal, but certainly an important piece of the puzzle of servants of the Empire.

In the book a Commandant Berol Hux emerges, a fanatical Imperial, who heads the academy officer on Arkanis. He has served in the Clone Wars as a young communications officer among the Jedi and even if he despises the Order as an empire hostile, so he found the idea of ​​the Jedi well, to train the youth from birth to the Code, so that the Order of the family is. Similarly, one is indeed proceed when pulling in the clone troopers of the Jedi - they knew nothing more than their soldiers existence.

Berol Hux want to start using a fine cadets circle a program, to be educated in the infants from an early age as an imperial soldier, so they consider the Empire as her family. He is against clones, as they are prone to gene-specific bioweapons, but intends to educate by a kind of genetic selection of suitable parents children after the imperial doctrine. Hux and his program survive the book.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

On every job it's never just, 'We're making a movie...' it's, 'We're making a movie!' Obviously Star Wars is a massive cultural event, there's no getting away from that. I think the excitement of it being Star Wars is always going to be there, that's not something you need to look after and try to cultivate. But you have to make a good film, that's the aim. The way JJ approached it was as a film, which has possibilities and problems just like any film, and so it became about trying to solve the problems and making the most of the possibilities. From the start it was about character and story and how we're going to connect with the audience.

The fact that JJ is also brilliant at doing action and spectacle is obviously a massive bonus, because you know all that stuff is being looked after. He can direct the hell out of a scene, too. I really enjoyed working with him. It's a Star Wars film, but it's a JJ Abrams film first and foremost. So I'm excited to see it not just because it's a Star Wars film, but because I think, away from everything, it's going to be a really good stand-alone film.

http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/fe...star-wars-episode-vii-the-force-awakens-32042

 

[TX85]

Great interview

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

It is very much — and it’s acknowledged as such in the movie — apparently another Death Star. But what it’s capable of, how it works, and what the threat is, is far greater than what the Death Star could have done. Starkiller Base is another step forward, technologically speaking, in terms of power.

Evil’s a little bit like a drug. It takes more and more of it to have the same effect. And I think the First Order is a really deadly drug.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/13/star-wars-starkiller-base-general-hux

 

[Sawyer]

*sees Tumblr folk wanting desperately for Hux to be Palpatine's descendant*

*eyerolls so hard my sockets cease to serve their function*

Yes, let's make this small world even smaller.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

His real name is

Spoiler

Armitage Hux.

That was revealed in the new Aftermath: Life Debt book.

He was born 4 years before the Battle of Endor.

His father is Brendol Hux. He retreated along with the Imperial remnant to the Unknown Regions of the galaxy around the time of the Battle of Jakku (1 year after Return of the Jedi).