"You look around the room and see the whitest f*&^%$# room in history of time. It's just unbelievably white. And I thought, we're casting this show and have an opportunity to do anything we want, why not just cast the show with actors of color?" - J. J. Abrams
Star Wars the Force Awakens was said by Disney to be a "5 billion dollar movie." It has barely made 2 billion, which puts it up there with the Minions movie.