Your first look at Star Wars: Episode VII’s life-size X-Wing Fighter

By Will Fulton Published July 22, 2014

J. J. Abrams has shared an update on the Star Wars: Force for Change initiative contest to win a chance to be in Star Wars: Episode VII. With one week left in the contest, they have added the additional prize of a private screening for you and 20 friends and family before the film’s theatrical release.

Fans need only make a minimum donation of $10 to be eligible for the walk-on role and the private screening. Higher donations will unlock tiered rewards such as concept art, signed scripts, and a lightsaber hilt. Force for Chance is a joint initiative between Abrams’ Bad Robot production company and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), dedicated to funding innovative solutions to challenges facing children around the world.

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You have until midnight this Friday, July 25 to donate here and enter to win.

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