With the announcement and promotions of the new 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' movie, much speculation within the fan community has come about, especially in regards to the new lightsaber.

However, the design of the new crossguard lightsaber and overall changes to the franchise have ignited many to doubt the movie's success, but in a recent interview with Collider, director J.J. Abrams has come to clear the air on a lot of the pressing subjects.

Abrams was spotted at an awards show and he has responded on some of the reactions he's seen on the Internet. He didn't appear to take them all too seriously:

"I will say that what's been funny is, since the lightsaber's come out, I cannot tell you how many contradictory emails I have received from people who have both defended it with unbelievably detailed graphics...I've gotten things that are nuts, and I've gotten people who've shown how it'll kill you and how it doesn't make any sense. It's been the funniest thing to see the arguments that have developed over this thing."

He adds,

"It was a number of conversations [that led to the design]. It was a sketch that became a whole thing and, you know, this was not done without a lot of conversation and it's fun to see people have the conversation that we had, but in reverse."

Abrams goes on to talk about the use of CGI in the movie. With today's technology the franchise will be able to implore a lot more of this and fans have been wary if this will take away from the movie's authenticity.

"I feel like the beauty of this age of filmmaking is that there are more tools at your disposal, but it doesn't mean that any of these new tools are automatically the right tools. And there are a lot of situations where we went very much old school and in fact used CG more to remove things than to add things."

"There are obviously an enormous amount of CG effects in the film, and I can't wait for you to see the combination. But it was very important that we build as many sets as we could and that the film have a tangible, sort of authentic quality that you believed that these things were actually happening in a real space with real sunlight, if it was an exterior scene, or if we could build a big portion of a scene and not have anything be blue screen, do it where we could. It was a very important piece of work."

'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' arrives in theaters on December 18^th 2015.