which one is your favorite? >> r2-d2. >> jimmy: okay. not naming one that you just saw two seconds ago. [ laughter ] which one is your favorite? >> uh, han solo. or han solo. whatever his name. >> jimmy: what did you say again? >> ham solo. >> jimmy: ham solo. it's just a single ham. [ laughter ] all right. very good. tomorrow night is marvel super night. chris evans and robert downey jr. will join us, as will krysten ritter, and we'll have music from fall out boy. and next tuesday, a week from tomorrow, on world aids day, shop-a-thon show to raise money for the great charity red. joining us that night on the show, bono, scarlett johansson, the killers, olivia wilde, and many, many more. maybe even matt damon might show up that night, although i'm not promising anything. so join us tuesday for the

shopathon." you can shop and do something good at the same time. it's like the opposite of black friday really. a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away our first guest brought us many great tv shows and then went on to become one of the most beloved american film directors. he's produced, co-written, and directed one of the most eagerly anticipated movies ever, "star wars: the force awakens," opens december 18th. please welcome j.j. abrams. [ cheers and applause ] i'm glad to have you here. >> good to be here. thank you so much. >> jimmy: it's exciting to have you. i know you don't want to spoil anything. i know there's only so much you can reveal. but i do have one question, specific question i'd love to get an answer for. >> all right. >> jimmy: i think the fans would love to get an answer for this question. >> yeah.

>> jimmy: at the end of "lost," okay? [ laughter ] they were in purgatory, right? i mean, it was -- >> jimmy, whatever you say, man. >> jimmy: are you done with the movie? are you finished? >> we have like a couple more color correction things to do, but we're done. >> jimmy: it's almost in the can. [ applause ] are there cans? >> they have cans but they have cans. no cans. >> jimmy: are you happy that you've almost finished it? honestly. it's been a long time. work on this thing. nerve-wracking. i won't lie to you. >> jimmy: i remember being at a dinner, a birthday dinner for our mutual friend alex wallow, and bob iger was at that dinner, and he was trying to convince you at the dinner to direct this movie. and you were reluctant. >> i was only reluctant because, a, i love the movie "star wars" so much. i love the original trilogy. i was 11 years old when i saw the first one.

it had a profound impact on me. and so the idea of getting so close to something kind of scared me a little bit. and also i'd been working on a bunch of things and katie, my wife, and i had plans with the family to go away for a little while. >> jimmy: really? >> yeah. calls and says do you want to direct "star wars"? i said no thank you. but then she said can we talk in person? i said of course. she came and we met. all we had to do was start talking about it and i just felt myself -- >> jimmy: you got carried away with yourself. >> the idea that -- katie said afterwards, the meeting, i talked to her about it. she said if you pass this up you'll probably regret this for the rest of your life, you should really consider it. >> jimmy: right. and if it goes poorly you will regret it for the rest of your life. >> this is true. >> jimmy: how many people have seen the movie, from beginning to end? >> it's a good question. we've shown it to -- had a bunch of little sort of small friend and family screenings. but the truth is i haven't seen it with hundreds of people. it's been, you know, a few here, a few there.

and that's the thing i'm most excited about because it is a movie that i think will be a lot >> jimmy: that is the best part of directing a movie, isn't it? actually getting to see people watch it and enjoy it. >> it is. but it's like you never know. know. when we did the star trek film we hadn't seen it with an australia. and at the opera house. and there were just thousands of people there. you couldn't hear anything. the space was so big, it wasn't like a normal movie theater. so i was convinced the whole time it was an utter disaster because i'd never seen it with an audience. and when it was over they gave an incredibly generous ovation. it was like a two-minute-long thing. but during the movie you just don't know until you've gone through it. so it's terrifying. >> jimmy: are fans of the "star wars" movies more aggressive than the fans of the "star trek" -- >> there are more of them. and because i have always, since i was a little kid, counted

myself among them, i'm not going to disparage them and say anything bad about them. i think they're fantastic. >> jimmy: i'm not looking for you -- >> but they do frighten you sometimes. >> jimmy: they come up to you and they must say you've got our baby and you'd better take care of it. >> i get a lot of people coming up and saying oh, hey, i love "star wars." and my response to that is thank you, i had nothing to do with it. and i'm grateful that we're in the same club. but it's like i was -- i saw it too. but what they're really saying underneath it is if you screw this up i'll kill you. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: right. and some of the characters remain from some of the original films. but the focus is on new characters. you've got new -- phil collins does all the music for this movie, yes? >> yes. phil said i'm not retired anymore and did all the music. it's incredible. john williams. >> jimmy: oh, yes. >> does the music. not phil collins. no. no one from genesis did the music. we have an amazing cast. daisy ridley. you'll meet them in two minutes. >> jimmy: you'll maybe even ruin their lives. i assume.

>> that's sort of the goal. >> jimmy: it really is. >> if nothing changes we really screwed up. >> jimmy: is to make sure they get swarmed by nerds everywhere they go, people carrying signs. >> this cast, they are truly -- they are amazing. i cannot wait for you to see. >> jimmy: i can't wait to see it either. apparently i wasn't among the friends or family. [ laughter ] but neither was guillermo. he better not have been there! >> i really can't wait four to see it. >> jimmy: i'm looking forward to seeing it. and i will tell you i know some people who have seen it and people who are very critical in general say -- they're effusive. they say it's great. let's hope everybody feels that same way. now, what i would love to do is to get a little bit of something out of you. what i mean by that -- i don't mean a liquid. i mean -- i'd just love to know like for instances what's the

>> the first word? >> jimmy: yeah. >> spoken? >> jimmy: yes. the first spoken word in the film. >> ready? >> jimmy: yes. >> this. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: look at it. >> oh, my god. >> jimmy: i told them to be ready. it's a good thing they were able to spell this one. [ laughter ] letters you can spell sith. does that mean anything? sorry, i've been playing a lot of scrabble. >> jimmy: you brought a clip with you. does it need to be set up? >> essentially all you need to know is this is very early on in the movie and these two characters, rey and finn, have just met and he was a storm trooper and abandoned his post and she is a scavenger in the desert of a place called jacu and the two have met and are now being pursued.

>> jimmy: a clip from "star wars: the force awakens." >> we can't outrun them! >> we might. in that quad jumper. >> we need a pilot. >> we've got one. >> you? [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that must have cost a fortune. when we come back, j.j. abrams is going to stick with us and we'll get to meet your cast. the cast of "star wars: the force awakens." ooh. hello, my old friend. you still have a chance to win super bowl 50 tickets, millions of instant win prizes, and now with all day breakfast, you can peel and play anytime with a delicious egg peel, win instantly or text in your code, and if we announce your team you're automatically a winner. that, my friend, warms my heart. it's time to play game time gold

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[ cheers and applause ] thanks for coming. great to have you here. so let me just go around and talk about how -- the moment you found out that you were going to be in the movie and the security surrounding that. >> i was like 19. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: how about you, daisy? you're also like 19. >> i was at the theater, and i hadn't been able to watch the first half because i was desperately trying to get in touch with j.j. because i didn't know how to call the u.s. i had to google it, all sorts of things. >> jimmy: you were at i aplay. >> yes. >> jimmy: i see. >> sew told me. and obviously i wasn't there for the whole first half. and i had to go in for the second half and not tell the guy i was with. >> jimmy: because it was a secret and you didn't trust him. does he now know you were keeping that from him during the play? >> no. >> jimmy: he does not. maybe he now does. adam, were you shooting "girls" at the time? >> yeah.

it was the last day of the second season of "girls" and i got a call, do you want to meet j.j. and talk about "star wars"? yeah. yeah, i would. then it was just months of meeting and making, you know -- weighing it and taking time considering it. then jumping on board. >> jimmy: and you couldn't tell anybody for how long? >> i feel like i still haven't told anybody. i didn't tell my wife anything. >> jimmy: tell john because he's right there. and he should know what's going on. >> j.j. spoiled it for my -- he assumed i told her everything but i didn't tell her. >> jimmy: oh, really? >> i get into it. >> jimmy: now you know you can john, how about you? when you found this out, where was it? >> i was in a basement somewhere waiting for seven months to hear whether i got the part or not. and j.j. released me from absolute -- >> jimmy: he had you in captivity? >> i was literally just waiting at home to see if j.j. would give me the part and he sent me the e-mail telling me to come to mayfair and meet him.

to me and told me i got the part. it was a good day. >> jimmy: who was the first person you told this news? >> i told my agent, femmy. but i think the most interesting thing was telling my dad. i went home and was like dad, wars." and he was like, oh, my god. you are in "star wars"? that is fantastic. i knew it. what is "star wars"? [ applause ] >> jimmy: he didn't know? >> he didn't know. to be excited. did you pump carrie for information about the things that went on? a lot of crazy things went on in the original "star wars" movies. yes? >> yeah. >> jimmy: you were at the center of a lot of those crazy things. >> i started most of them. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: when you go back to playing the part of princess leia, now general leia, do you have to go back and look at one of the older movies and kind of -- >> and feel bad about how i've aged? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: well -- yes. >> that's what i do at night. >> jimmy: that's what you do at

>> puts me to sleep. yeah. >> jimmy: i see. i have a photograph here. this is the -- is this the first table read? >> yeah. that's what it was. >> jimmy: and j.j., looks like you had it in an ikea or something like that. >> we were on a stage at the studio, pinewood. >> jimmy: this is the first time you all got together? >> yep. >> jimmy: and you went through the script. by the way, did you give the script to the actors? >> yeah, j.j., did you? >> no, he didn't. >> not to carrie. [ laughter ] the actors had the script. but that was an amazing thing to see everyone together for the first time. because we had everyone in separate different rooms for months and then all of a sudden we put them all together and we were like crossing our fingers it would go well. and it was kind of an electric amazing time. >> jimmy: when you have the script in your hands are you nervous about losing it? >> absolutely. i have to say, through the audition process we didn't get to take the script home. so we had to go to pinewood and learn our lines and then go home. i felt like i was living a double life, like batman. it was a real situation.

>> you got to learn your lines? >> i did. >> and john came in like eight or nine times to audition. it was a long process. >> thank you, j.j. >> jimmy: eight or nine times? i feel guilty. >> jimmy: adam, you are in a helmet in the clips we've seen from the movie. do we ever see your face? because otherwise anybody really could have been you, i guess, huh? [ laughter ] >> i don't know. i don't know if i can say. >> i will say that adam was amazing because there were certain things where in theory someone else could have been in there for a shot or two but adam was like no, i want to do every single shot. so he did. he was incredible. >> jimmy: that's a trouper. not a storm trooper but a trouper. yeah. [ laughter ] and daisy, for you this is your first thing, right? this is -- >> yeah. >> jimmy: i imagine you're of course excited but like are you fully aware of what you're in for? >> i don't know. it's kind of been a process this year. like obviously i've never had people going can you sign a

picture of me? so that's to get used to. but i'm just pleased to be part of it. >> jimmy: are you all signed for other movies for the future films? >> don't know what you're talking about. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i really feel like i can't get -- carrie, you'll tell me everything. what happens at the end of the movie? [ laughter ] oh, no. what? really? wow. that's a hell of a light saber battle. [ laughter ] >> it involves nudity. >> jimmy: it involves nudity. wouldn't that be something, if you made an r-rated version of -- that would be -- >> can you imagine? >> jimmy: that would have been a becausy move on your part. since i can't get any actual information about the film from any of you, we're going to put you to the test here. you're going to play against a 7-year-old boy who knows an awful lot about "star wars."

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>> jimmy: welcome back to our "star wars" special. it's time to pit the cast of "star wars: the force awakens" against a very smart 7-year-old named arden in an intergalactic battle of trivia. it is time for "ard wars." wow. no expense spared with the graphics. our quizmaster tonight is j.j. abrams, director of the film. let's introduce the teams. to my left members of the cast. daisy ridley, john boyega, adam driver, and carrie fisher. team star wars. their opponent is the star of this particular war. he's a third-grader from here in los angeles. he is a bona fide genius despite the fact that he is no bigger

trivia, arden hayes. [ cheers and applause ] hi, arden. how are you doing, arden? are you excited? >> yeah. >> jimmy: should these guys be nervous? >> yeah. maybe. >> jimmy: yeah, maybe. are you going to crush them like some kind of rebel scum? >> yeah, maybe. >> jimmy: let's find out. arden, by the way, dressed up as a "star wars" character for halloween. and this is the character he dressed up as. that's a great-looking costume. [ applause ] who made that costume? your mom make that costume? >> no. i bought it. >> jimmy: you bought it. okay. very good. are you ready to play? >> yeah. >> jimmy: here we go. the teams are a little uneven. maybe we should have a teammate for ard.

arden, this is your teammate. [ applause ] the rules are simple. >> hi. >> jimmy: j.j., we'll go back and forth asking "star wars" trivia questions. you'll have ten seconds to answer correctly. if you don't answer correctly, your opponent will have a chance to steal. just like in the movie j.j.'s decisions are final. you're not allowed to argue with him. j.j., we're going to start with arden. that is our first question. >> here we go. what was luke planning to pick up at tashi station? >> the power converters. >> jimmy: the power converters. >> that's right. >> jimmy: that is absolutely correct. >> announcer: this is correct. >> jimmy: arden has 10 points. next question is for your cast. >> where did uncle owen tell luke to take the droids into to have their memory erased? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you have ten seconds to figure this out. >> so what happened, carrie? >> jimmy: carrie was in the original films.

>> jimmy: your answer is? >> borrowood studios. sorry. >> jimmy: let's give arden a chance. >> what was the question? >> where did uncle owen tell luke to take the droids into to have their memory erased? >> tashi station. >> jimmy: that is not correct. [ sound effect ] my god. that was terrifying. >> anchorhead. >> jimmy: anchorhead is the correct answer. i always feel like when arden gets one wrong it means we were all right. next question is for arden. >> who was red leader during the battle of ender? >> reginald telly. >> announcer: that is correct. >> jimmy: next question. >> in what detention block was one princess leia being held? >> i was unconscious for that part. so you guys -- >> i wasn't born. >> jimmy: any other excuses? what detention block --