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Frank Wilton Marshall (born September 13, 1946) is an American film producer and director. He often collaborates with his wife, film producer Kathleen Kennedy, with whom he founded the production company Amblin Entertainment, along with Steven Spielberg. In 1991, he founded, with Kennedy, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company. Since May 2012, with Kennedy taking on the role of President of Lucasfilm, Marshall has been Kennedy/Marshall's sole principal. Marshall has worked with directors such as Spielberg, Paul Greengrass, Peter Bogdanovich, David Fincher, M. Night Shyamalan, and Robert Zemeckis. He has also directed the films Arachnophobia (1990), Alive (1993), Congo (1995), Eight Below (2006), and the documentaries The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (2020), Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story (2022) and The Beach Boys (2024). Marshall has produced various successful film franchises, including Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Bourne, and Jurassic Park, and has received five Academy Award nominations for Best Picture. His other accolades include the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, bestowed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to "creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production", the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, a Grammy Award, a Sports Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. Marshall is one of the few people to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT), with one of the awards being non-competitive. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Marshall (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Frank Marshall
Producer
for Producer in Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
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Only mentioning key changes: The First Order is a militant organisation hell bent on destroying the New Republic and the last Jedi order. Luke Skywalker is in hiding, post one of his students turning evil and destroying his monastery. Rey is a scavenger in Jedha, searching for her lost parents. She gets off Jedha with Poe, Finn, Chewbacca and Han Solo who are in search of BB8 and the map. Kylo Ren wishes to take Rey in as his apperentice after the interrogation. Han,Chewie,Poe and Finn rescue Rey, but in mid conflict realize that Kylo is Ben Solo. Kylo is forced by Snoke to attack the capital Coruscant and kill his father to complete his training. Kylo and the First Order destroys the capital, and kills Han. Rey fights Kylo with Luke's green lightsaber and manages to beat Kylo. The Republic wins at a great cost and the message is sent about the power of First Order. Rey is sent to meet Luke and persuade him to return. No Starkiller base, only a Pearl Harbor-esque attack with Star Destroyers, Tie Fighters and ground troops.
