"The Force Awakens" is screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan's third "Star Wars" effort, and he seems to find the third time quite charming.

"I'm really happy with it, and I think it's full of surprises, and really goofy," he said in a livestreamed interview from the red carpet.

"When we started out, J.J. [Abrams] and I said, 'Let 's see if we can make it delightful.' And I said to him, 'We've got to like it when we're with it.' And I think we did that."

The two of them hiked in places all over the world and recorded their conversations. But they weren't quite hush-hush all through the process.

"We were reckless," Kasdan said. "We were in restaurants and cafes and we were yelling things like, 'Han should do this!' We were not careful."