. >> some of them so obsessed they know even more about the galaxy far and far away than george lucus himself. jeremy reiner showing us some stuff you might not know about star wars as new england awakens. >> it's still unreal to me that we're getting new star wars. it's just never thought in my lifetime i would actually see episode 7. >> reporter: film critic robert chism got to see the advanced and to get you ready we're digging up some new stuff about the old films. let's start about the old one. sir alan called it fairy tale rubbish but his paycheck was luke skywalker almost had a different name, luke starkiller and even episode 6 return of the jedi was part of the name game. up until the last minute it was. >> revenge of the jedi. >> reporter: the name was changed just before release. a bigger budget for the phantom menace meant propose got fancier. but the communicator wasn't technical at all. >> the gillette women's razor they took apart for those. >> reporter: if the auditions worked out differently you might have seen a member of in sink. and in 1978 a star wars hailed specia

he confirms meeting with george lucus about the films but says he wasn't ready to take the dive in hayden christensen wasput in that role instead. >> i think leonardo dicaprio did a pretty good deal for himself, though. >> yeah, he seems to have done >> 7news at 6:00 starts now. >> cold air stays in place and a renewed chance of freezing rain tonight. >> we're following two breaking stories. bill cosby facing a judge, answering to a sexual assault charge. >> also breaking, we're learning more about a deadly drive in new hampshire. four secret service agents injured but police say an unlicensed driver crashes head on into their car. >> reporter: and we're counting down to the face-off in foxboro, and it was a family affair on the ice at gillette stadium today. >>> first at 6:00, a weather alert. we are gearing up around winter weather but not snow we're talking about. a freezing rain advisory is in affect for later on tonight. >> and it could cause so problems out there on the roads. chris lambert is here with a check at your forecast. >> yeah, we're talking about the freezing rain. they f

carole king, george lou can you- lucus. and cecily tyson.something you don't see everyday, 400 empty kegs making up the tree decked out in lights. it's a popular tradition, they afterred things up adding 100 more kegs to the tradition, the genesse brewing company has been around for 114 years. >> tashfeen malik the driving force in the san bernadino shooting plot. >>> people are injured in a fast-moving fire, "action news" will have more when we can right back. >> developing on "action news," a beef with a bouncer leads to gunfire in south philadelphia. >> a fast fast moving five injs two people, one a philadelphia firefighter. >>> what a way to end a slump. the eagles stun the raining super bowl champs. talk about a turn around. good morning, 5:30, monday, december 7. erin o'hern is in for matt o'donnell. he is on assignment. let's go over to david murphy and ronald roj has -- karen rogers has traffic. >> reporter: that was a tense quarter, we'll see what happens at home on sunday. we have fog issues out there, be careful of that. patchy fo