Thursday, February 19, 2015

Rumor: The Opening Scenes of 'The Force Awakens'

22 comments
By: Dominic Jones

Our friends over at MakingStarWars.net have been in touch with one of their sources who has provided them with some information regarding the opening scenes of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.  This describes the scenes from immediately following the opening crawl of the film.  Lots of this lines up with previous rumors, which leads me to think there's a good chance its true.  But, as usual, there's a chance these may not be true, but if you're trying to avoid all The Force Awakens rumors then stop reading now.  This is your official SPOILER ALERT!
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According to MSW,
The film does open with a lightsaber in space. It falls to the ground in a savannah environment during the day. It is quickly discovered by a farmer named Naka. Naka accidentally ignites the weapon and starts a fire with it. At first he runs, but then turns around and obtains the weapon. I assume he snatches the weapon so it is not destroyed in the fire.  Naka then takes the weapon to his elder called The Vicar.
 
The Vicar is most likely played by Max von Sydow. It is most likely a code name too. Chances are they didn’t need to name the character during filming so they just went with the title The Vicar which means leader or superior. Anyways, the Vicar appears to contact the Rebels and this brings Poe Dameron to the planet.

Later that night, Poe Dameron arrives and retrieves the lightsaber from The Vicar. The only problem? They’ve brought the Empire there as well (not sure if the Empire followed Poe or intercepted the initially transmission he received). Poe sees Stormtroopers are coming and he places the laser sword safely in a little droid: BB-8. The droid flees and the heroic Poe Dameron prepares to fight!

Concurrently, a young Stormtrooper named Finn enters a situation that will drastically change his life forever. When his best friend dies in battle and he allows a few innocent villagers to escape, Kylo Ren orders him arrested and the village burned to the ground. Because Finn just isn’t naturally evil enough, he finds himself in the brig of a Star Destroyer with a Rebel pilot. Finn never learned to fly. Finn has the knowledge how to get out of the brig and Poe is their best chance to fly out of there. They hatch a plan to steal a TIE Fighter and make a run for it.

Brandon Rhea first mentioned that Poe would end up on the planet and get thrown in the brig. It was true as Star Wars 7 News reported that Poe and BB-8 are together at the start of the film, the brig is aboard a Star Destroyer and they do crash land on the planet afterward. Badass Digest were the first to report a hand in space with a lightsaber in it (there is no indication there is a hand involved). So we’re starting to see some of these loose strands coming together and making sense. It takes a village. Not just to burn down, but to figure this stuff out.

As I mentioned at the top, the fact that this lines up with earlier rumors does make think there is truth to it (where there's smoke, there's fire, sort of thing).  It does sound like an exciting opening act to the film, and likely some of the questions we have about this will be answered with the opening crawl, giving us context about how the galaxy far, far away has been for the last 30 years.

As always, this is just a rumor until confirmed or denied by Lucasfilm or Disney.

Source: MakingStarWars.net

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22 comments:

Unknown said...

Total bull..

Dellamorte Dellamore said...

I've been saying this since the day the floating lightsaber rumor started: This film needs to open with a ship flying somewhere after the crawl NOT a lightsaber.

Unknown said...

These rumors sounds like silly fandom to me.

Unknown said...

The Vicar ? My arse !

mosfet74 said...

Sounds very interesting and different. At least there are no m___er f__k__g gungans!

Unknown said...

This could be true... Just wait for the film ;)

Anonymous said...

I for one have no expectations for this film. I want to thank Disney for giving everyone a huge white gloved force mind trick and obliterating the EU which had so many good stories and are now basically moot. The Star Wars saga was fine where it left off it told the complete stories of both the tragedy of Vader and the rise to power of Palpatine (Sheev give me a break) it was perfect and was fine where it finished. Disney can't you make your all mighty money on spin offs and merchandising which is apparent your starting already since any starwars item I've seen anywhere has the Disney logo all over it. I keep wanting to give this film a chance then I see articles like this and others with more disturbing news and get scared for the future of Star Wars.

Unknown said...

A floating lightsaber in space.. are you serious?

Kylo Ren said...

I dont believe it. how did the lightsaber get off bespin (assuming its lukes old one). Regardless, how did it survive reentry and not smash into a zillion pieces upon hitting the ground..sounds lame, hopefully this is disinformation in an attempt to hide the true story while JJ tries to get the release moved up.

Unknown said...

Hmm. Well, I like the idea of the lightsaber setting the whole thing in motion, and believe this could be true ... but whether it all begins with it just coincidentally floating around in outer space just seems too ridiculous, even for science fiction. Having said that, the films historically begin with intense scenes in space directly after the 'crawl' ... I suspect this one will begin with a sequence involving the forementioned stormtrooper army (with Finn).

Unknown said...

I expect the lightsaber is from a wrecked ship in orbit after a battle

mosfet74 said...

Yes! We pretty much know there's going to be relic dealers in this story so it only makes sense.

Steve said...

These stories are total bunk. Even the most gullible fans wouldn't believe the whole lightsaber surviving re-entry. It's a disinformation campaign.

TheAnonymust said...

So a metal that can withstand the soaring heat of a focused light beam can't withstand re entry to the atmosphere?... are you people stupid?

Mithras of Nazareth said...

I think the SW franchise is losing credibility for a story based on real events or least those accounted in The Bible!

Unknown said...

I hope, if this is true, there is at least some sort of explaination as to how it traveled all the way from Bespin to Tatooine. Bespin has no ground so its plausible that it fell into space, less plausible however it ends up in tatooine rather than hoth, the closest nearby system.

Unknown said...

Ren.is a solo.and is also a imperial.it's very similar to the legacy of the force books. I'll be at loosely. And with Luke in seclusion maybe he's depressed that his wife had been killed. In the book Mara Jade was killed by Jason solo. And Jason solo killed by his sister. Some of the spoilers have said they fight in the movie. Also in the books Ben Skywalker is torn between his cousin / mentor and in the spoilers it says Ben is in the Imperial fleet struggling with them and the Republic. I imagine the call will explain that Jason / pilo Ren killed Mara Jade.. I loved those books and thought they would make great movies and it seems the movies maybe very loosely based on them. I can't wait

mosfet74 said...

There is not going to be a lightsaber hilt floating in space and re-entering the atmosphere and crashing on some planet. So please stop whining about it. Maybe junk sweepers of some sort pick it up, maybe it was in a crashed ship, or maybe some relic dealer just has it and tells some cool tale about how he acquired it. I look forward to seeing Anakin's lightsaber in the movie still fascinating the future generation of characters.

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Unknown said...

It's highly possible a light saber could survive atmospheric reentry. If an object has little sideways momentum relative to the atmosphere it will not heat up. The reason our current space ships do this is by design. It's called atmospheric braking. They could do the same thing but it would require tremendous amounts of fuel slowing down from an orbital velocity which currently isn't feasible.

Unknown said...

Couldn't they have simply used the Coke bottle prop from the film, "The Gods Must be Crazy"?

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