abrams. >> energy and action! >> whitaker: tonight, we'll find out how he was chosen to direct "the force awakens", and how he hopes to please the fans waiting for the most anticipated movie of the year. >> nothing will stop us. >> whitaker: talk about the force. the fans are a force to be reckoned with. >> it's not a movie. it's a... it's bigger than all of us. it's a... it's almost a religion for people. >> rose: it is said that you're at one with the car. >> yeah. it's like you're strapped to a rocket. i mean, it's like, "how do you control this rocket?" it's like a raging bull. >> rose: there is nothing like formula one in terms of global popularity, glamour, and speed. and there has never been anything in the sport like lewis hamilton, who is breaking down all kinds of barriers. >> kroft: i'm steve kroft. >> stahl: i'm lesley stahl. >> whitaker: i'm bill whitaker. >> rose: i'm charlie rose. >> pelley: i'm scott pelley. those stories tonight on "60 minutes." opinions. there's no shortage in this world. who do

abrams. i saw you up here with your video camera, taking... >> j.j. abrams: oh, well, this is... this is, like, momentous, you know-- john williams conducting his "star wars" music. i mean, as a fan, i can't even >> whitaker: abrams saw "star wars" when he was 11, and never outgrew his passion for the film. on this day, when he wasn't in the middle of the orchestra, filming on his phone, he was racing around the soundstage, here the fan... >> john williams: do you think it could work? >> abrams: let me just think. yeah. it's incredible. >> whitaker: ...there the director. >> abrams: we may need to make the bum-ba-da-ba-da... repeat those bars just because it might be a little bit longer before we get into the interior of the transport. >> whitaker: i see you running around. i mean, you're very... >> abrams: really? i've... i've felt so calm today. >> whitaker: yeah. this is you, calm? >> abrams: really, this is me, "oh, god"... >> whitaker: this is you, calm? >> abrams: yeah. >> whitaker: is it intimidating, in any way? >> abrams: uh... oh, yeah. oh, yeah. it's... there are momen

abrams, why? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: because he directed -- he directed you in "star wars: the force awakens." >> he did? >> jimmy: yes, and he got injured trying to help you. because you got hurt as well. >> oh, poor guy. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you fell. >> what a pity. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: what happened to you, though, something fell on you. and you broke your leg, right? yeah. something -- do you remember this? [ laughter ] i was worried about you. >> they closed a [ bleep ] door on me. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i had nothing to do with it. i didn't do it. >> no, j.j. did it. >> jimmy: j.j. abrams? >> as far as i know. j.j. abrams! [ laughter ] he's an academy award nominated director! >> jimmy: explain what happened. [ laughter ] was it like -- like this? they close the door on you. were you like that? >> no. in a plane crash. but we're here to talk about this one. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that one. okay. >> this one. >> jimmy: that one. >> but this dislocated the ankle for

abrams. as bill whitaker reports, abrams is under enormous pressure to make sure the movie hits all the right notes. ♪ >> reporter: six weeks before the premiere, we dropped in on a hollywood scoring session for "the force awakens." ♪ the composer, who won an academy awarfor the first film, was back. along with the iconic refrain he wrote 38 years ago. ♪ take a look behind williams. that's not some awe-struck groupie. that's the director, j.j. abrams. i saw you up here with your video camera. >> this is momentous. john williams conducting his "star wars" music. as a fan, i can't believe i get to be here. ♪ >> reporter: abrams saw "star wars" when he was 11. and he never outgrew his passion for the film. on this day, he was racing around the sound stage. here the fan -- >> it's incredible. >> reporter: there the director. >> we may need to make the -- repeat those bars just because it might be a little longer before we get into the interior of the transport. >> reporter: i see you runn

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abrams. [ cheers and applause ] i've known j.j. for quite a while but i learned something today i did not know. did you know j.j. stands for jamba juice? [ laughter ] his legal name is jamba juice abrams. "the force awakens" is the seventh movie in the "star wars" story. the last things we saw in the "star wars" universe when we left off, our heroes, as you may recall, were dancing on endor with a village of ewoks. now, this one picks up the party when luke wakes up and realizes he got drunk and had sex with two of them. [ laughter ] disney's done a good job of keeping the details of the film under wraps and because of that the internet has been flooded with all manner of creative theories. a lot of fans are wondering why the posters or the promotional materials. that he's in exile, maybe he went to the dark side. some people think he was transformed into the villain kylo ren who's played by adam driver, and i figured something out that i think is very interesting. i think it's something people are going to talk about. the name kyl

abrams. as bill whitaker reports, abrams is under enormous pressure to make sure e e movie hits all the right notes. >> reporter: six weeks before the premiere, we dropped in on a hollywood scing session for "the force awakens." the composer, who won an academy award for the first film, was back. along with the iconic refrain he wrote 38 years ago. take a look behind williams. that's n some awe-struck groupie. at's the director, j j. i saw you up here with your video camera. >> this is momentous. john williams conducting his "star wars" music. as a fan, i can't believe i get to be here. >> reporter: abrams saw "star wars" when he was 11. and he never outgrew his passion for the film. on this day, he was racing around the sound stage. here the fan -- >> it's incredible. >> reporter: there the director. >> we may need to make the -- repeat those bars just because it might be a little longer before we get into the interior of the transport. >> reporter: i see you running around. u're very -- >>

abrams and the cast of "star wars: the force awakens" is on later. and later the cast is going to face off against a very bright 7-year-old boy in a "star wars" trivia contest. this is not just any 7-year-old. his name is arden hayes. he's been with us before. he's very knowledgeable when it comes to actually a number of subjects. here's a little -- we put a little montage together to show you how smart he is. >> are you a genius? >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: who's that guy? >> warren g. harding. he was one of our worst presidents. >> jimmy: he was one of the worst? >> that does not have south sudan on it. >> jimmy: it's missing a country? >> yeah. >> jimmy: you'd think everyone would know that. >> but no one does. >> jimmy: but no one does. how many elements are there on the periodic table? >> 118. >> jimmy: and you know -- >> all of them. >> jimmy: you know all of them. >> barium, lampidium, curium. promethium, samarium -- >> jimmy: we get it. you're embarrassing me now. [ applause ] >> jimmy: so not only does arden know about the elements and p

abram: llorÉ mucho cuando hice mi primer diÁlisis. clara: el doctor eduardo asegura que tomar estas bebidas energÉticas puede ser sumamente riesgoso y nos da un ejemplo de lo que puede ocasionar el consumo excesivo de estas bebidas. doctor: 500 mg, lo que serÍa el equivalente a cinco o seis medidas de este tipo en un perÍodo de 15 a 20 días, entonces empieza el riÑÓn a tener efectos de que se estÁ lastimando. clara: hoy abram necesita un transplante de riÑÓn urgentemente. abram: no me pueden poner en lista de espera porque no tengo un seguro social. ilia: no se retire, ya regresamos tras la pausa. e duardo:comenzamos la maÑana con temperaturas algo frÍas, congelaciÓn de 28 a 32. pero esta tarde los termÓmetros han subido en gran parte de la zona, alcanzando por lo menos 50. el pronÓstico en segundos. ♪ ♪ ilia: llegÓ la hora de enterarnos de las condiciones del tiempo. eduardo: gracias. hola, amigos. estas son las condiciones ideales, otoÑales en filadelfia. temperaturas que comienzan a 36 en filadelfia, 32 atlÁnti

abrams. >> john williams is conducting his "star wars" music. as a fan, i can't believe i even get to be here. >> reporter: abrams saw "star wars" when he was 11 and never outgrew his passion for the film. on this day, when he wasn't in the middle of the orchestra filming on his phone, he was racing around the sound stage. here, the fan. >> do you think it could work? >> let me just think. yes. it's incredibly! >> there, the director. >> you may need to make the dah, dah, repeat those bars just because it might be a little bit longer before we get into the flopper of the transport. >> reporter: i see you running around. i mean, you're very -- >> really? i felt so confidence. >> reporter: you're calm? >> yes. >> reporter: is it intimidating in any way? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: oh, yeah? >> it's -- there are moments of just abject terror as to what we are all taking on. >> reporter: what he's taking on is this -- "the force awakens." disney is counting on abrams to expand the universe of "star wars" fans, while staying true vision. and the die-ha

abrams! [ cheers and applause ] oh, my gosh. >> thank you. >> jimmy: co-writer, director of this new film. is this -- >> lawrence kasdan who wrote "empire strikes back," and "return of the jedi," and -- unbelievable. >> jimmy: i mean, come on. >> come on. >> jimmy: how much fun was that? >> it was amazing. amazing. >> jimmy: do you normally collaborate when you write? >> yeah. i've done both. it's better when you collaborate with someone as brilliant as lawrence kasdan. >> that helps, yeah. >> jimmy: do you have -- have you had time to do anything else? >> it's been almost, it's been a few years of just, i mean, i got to, like, i saw -- oh, here, i saw "hamilton," the play, which is amazing. it's an incredible musical. [ applause ] >> jimmy: how amazing is that guy? >> beyond belief. so, i go to see the show with our son, and at intermission, lin- manuel miranda, who wrote it and conceived it and normally stars in it, he wasn't in it that night, comes up to me and he says hello. my mind is bl

abrams? >> as far as i know. j.j. abrams! [ laughter ] he's an academy award nominated happened. [ laughter ] was it like -- like this? they close the door on you. re you like that? >> no. in a plane crash. but we're here to talk about this one. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that one. okay. >> this one. >> jimmy: that one. >> but this dislocated the ankle forward. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: hey, that's worth a a lot of money. that's an original. >> and then they broke this leg! >> jimmy: all right, hey, give it to me! hey, come on! [ bleep ] hey, you should have one that award. you should have won that award. i didn't know you were -- [ cheers and applause ] congratulations. >> let's not talk about that acdent. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: congratulations. >> that's what you get for having an amateur mohel. >> jimmy: took a little too that's all right. no problem. we'll get it all -- put it away. put it away, yeah. well, i want show -- >> why did i come here? [ laughter >> jimmy: i wanna show a clip of the trailer. >> i'm here just to warm up

abrams, a veteran of alias, lost, mission impossible 3 and the "star trek" series. >> fire everything. >> reporter: and now 49-year-old abrams was brought onto the "star wars" franchise by kennedy, for decades a top producer on steven spielberg's acclaimed films. >> i did pose this provocative idea who is luke skywalker that said by one of our characters. >> reporter: why was who is luke skywalker such a fascinating question. >> i guess because it spoke to a new generation. it was that idea that there would be young people for whom luke skywalker was essentially a myth. >> reporter: abrams hoping this film will have the same emotional punch that the 1977 one had on him as a child. >> the thing i felt when i was a kid when i left that theater was the world was huge and to have people, especially kids, go to see the movie and see themselves in it and feel like, i'm capable of something extraordinary. that would be the greatest gift of all. >> we're home. >> reporter: i'm chris connelly in los angeles. >> that j.j. abrams, he's got a bright future ahead of him. >> it's wonderful and thri

abrams do that to us. when is the next one -- >> oh, why did i fall asleep during the film, which you did. >> just for a second. i was a little tired. this early shift can be tough on a gal. >> and missed the dramatic twist because you were looking at the ck of your eyelilids. but you know what it does really well, although there are funny lines in it, it takes the story seriously, which i think you have to do for a film like that to reaeally work >> it was a compelling story. >> yeah, it was. and i think that they play again on the father/son relationship. there ar lots of nods to the old films but also they press the same emotional buttons and they do it well. >> well said. >> i'm giving it five stars. >> yes. and that is where soup comes from. campbell's fresh-brewed soups. oh, i thought we were talking about babies. made for real, real life. mom! eueucerin innsive repair doesn't just moisturize dry skin, it intensily repairs it. with a unique triple action forormula that exfoliates and fortifies skin.

abrams, all of it inspired by "star wars" creator george lucas. >> there isn't a day that goes by or went by that we were making the movie that we don't talk about george. you know, it is -- it's the standard what would george do. >> the thing that is most remarkable is that george got everything right. >> reporter: vet an of "alias," "lost," "mission impossible 3" and the "star trek" series and now 49-year-old abrams was franchise by kennedy. for decades top producer on steven spielberg's acclaimed films. >> i did pose this provocative idea of who is luke skywalker that that would be something that was said by one of our characters. >> why was who is luke skywalker such a fascinateing question? >> i guess because it spoke to a new generation. it was that idea that there would be young people for whom luke skywalker was essentially a myth. >> reporter: in crafting and setting thes for awaken, abrams wanted the characters young, even bad guys like ky. >> he's like, adam driver, really? mike drop. >> one of the things that we talked about very early on was that the villain in the movie

abrams, he's got a bright future ahead of him. and exciting and it probably is