The ridiculous way The Force Awakens almost opened
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On Star Wars Day, during an interview with The Sun, Mark Hamill confirmed how The Force Awakens almost opened with a morbid callback to The Empire Strikes Back. We imagine what that intro would have looked like — and discuss why it was right to cut it. Source:
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Soy Boy
The thing is that, if anything, the lightsaber would have fallen into Bespin’s core, or any other conduct of Cloud City.
‘I might have walked out’. yeah sure.
Cool hand Luke
That would’ve actually been more interesting
Star Wars Episode 7
Plot Summary Script Synopsis Story
The Fallen Hero
By: George Lucas
Thirty years have passed since the Battle of Endor (Return of the Jedi), where both the Emperor and Vader met their doom. During the decades since Endor, the remnants of the Empire have been defeated and the New Republic formed out of the ashes of the Empire. However, enemies against the New Republic still exist. A rogue group of Dark Jedi have emerged that threaten the fragile stability that the New Republic enjoys.
The Cloud City of Bespin has been converted into one of the many Jedi training facilities located all throughout the galaxy. The Jedi’s numbers are beginning to grow to Old Republic heights. The New Jedi Order consists of about 7,000 Jedi Knights. Bespin is now the home to both Jedi Masters, Knights and Apprentices.
During routine Jedi training on Bespin, the Dark Jedi invade wearing jet packs, which send them like a swarm dropping into the upper reaches of the cloud city. These Dark Jedi are seeking to re-establish the legacy of Darth Vader and, hence, they wear a more-advanced-looking version of Darth Vader’s mask, helmet and body armor in honor of their fallen hero.
As the Dark Jedi attack Bespin, their sleek battle satellites swarm the floating city and rain down turbolaser fire on the city. The Jedi are taken by complete surprise. However, the Dark Jedi seek not to conquer Bespin, but to capture some of the Jedi’s prized holocrons, which hold vast quantities of information about the ancient ways and customs of the Jedi. As hundreds of light-saber battles erupt between the Jedi and their Dark Jedi counterparts, some of the Dark Jedi use concussion grenades to cause damage to Bespin’s superstructure.
A few of the holocrons are captured by the Dark Jedi. With their mission now complete, the Dark Jedi retreat from Cloud City and fly away from the city using their jet packs which they wear on their backs. The Dark Jedi fly into the nearby clouds and disappear. The roar of engines can be heard as the Dark Jedi escape in their customized Tie Rager star ships, which were hidden in the clouds above Cloud City.
The 12 members of the Jedi Council are present in the Jedi Council chamber in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Several Jedi, who survived the battle of Bespin against the Dark Jedi, relate to Luke Skywalker (the head of the Jedi Council) that several Jedi holocrons were taken during the battle. Luke informs the Jedi Council that the Jedi will have to find these lost holocrons and bring the Dark Jedi under control.
Meanwhile, just outside of the Jedi Temple, a shape-shifting Dark Jedi named Asp morphs into Ben Skywalker and enters the Jedi Temple. Asp makes his way to the Jedi super computer area where Asp hopes to disable the Jedi’s computer network. Padawans Anakin Solo (son of Han Solo and Leia Organa) and Ben Skywalker (son of Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade) are walking by the computer area. They both sense something and enter the computer area. Ben and Anakin are shocked to see someone in the room that looks exactly like Ben. Asp sees the padawans and flees the room. Ben and Anakin chase after Asp.
Asp makes his way to the garage at the Jedi Temple and steals one of the Jedi swoop bikes. At a high rate of speed, Asp flies down the streets of Coruscant. Ben and Anakin each get a swoop bike and pursue Asp. After a thrilling chase, Asp wrecks his swoop bike. The Coruscant zoo is nearby and Asp enters the zoo to hide from Anakin and Ben. Anakin and Ben park their swoop bikes and quickly follow Asp into the zoo. A spectacular light-saber duel erupts between Asp vs. Ben and Anakin. As the duel rages on, Asp begins to lose so he uses his light saber to release Rygor tigers from their cage.
Ben sees the tigers and says: “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” The tigers spot Ben and Anakin and then charge at the two padawans. Ben and Anakin battle the tigers. Within in a few minutes, Ben and Anakin have killed all seven of the ferocious tigers. However, by the time Ben and Anakin are finished fighting the tigers, Asp has escaped to parts unknown.
Elsewhere, Shindor, the leader of the Dark Jedi, is elated to learn that some of the Jedi holocrons have successfully been taken from the Jedi. Shindor is currently at the Dark Jedi’s cloning facility, which is located on a planet nearby Coruscant. Shindor is using this facility to make clones of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. The Dark Jedi plan to fulfill Darth Vader’s prophecy that he and Luke should rule the galaxy as father and son and bring peace and order to the galaxy. The Dark Jedi are using Imperial DNA samples of Vader to produce a clone of the Dark Lord of the Sith and are using DNA samples from Luke’s severed hand to produce a clone of the venerable Jedi Master. Skywalker’s severed hand is currently owned by one of the chief Dark Jedi named, Spiden.
Meanwhile, Spiden hatches a plan to leak the Dark Jedi’s efforts to clone Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker to spies working for the New Republic. Spiden hopes the leader of the Dark Jedi will be destroyed by forces from the New Republic so that he can become the new leader of the Dark Jedi. Spiden leaks this information. The New Republic military and a Jedi army plan to raid the Dark Jedi hideout.
Also, Spiden contacts Luke Skywalker and asks the great Jedi Master to meet with him on the planet of Sluivan. Spiden tells Luke that Spiden is a smuggler who came across Luke’s severed hand in a preservation box. Luke learns from Spiden that the Empire recovered Luke’s hand that Vader cut off at Bespin. Spiden says that the hand is in perfect condition and can probably be re-attached to Luke’s arm. Luke agrees to meet Spiden on Sluivan.
Luke arrives on Sluivan with R2-D2 and C‑3PO. Luke enters a room where Spiden told Luke he would be waiting for Luke. Luke sees Spiden holding his severed hand in a transparent preservation box. Suddenly, the door behind Luke closes. Spiden sets down the hand and pulls out two light sabers. Spiden holds one in each hand and ignites them. Spiden tells Luke that he will now avenge the deaths of Sidious and Vader. Luke pulls out his light saber and ignites it. Luke and Spiden fight with their sabers. Luke manages to cut off one of Spiden’s hands. Spiden continues to fight with his other hand. R2-D2 rolls up behind Spiden. R2 ignites his rocket boosters and crashes into the back of Spiden at a tremendous speed. Spiden falls to the ground. Spiden stands back up dazed. With a slight movement of his hand, Luke uses the Force to send Spiden flying across the room. Spiden slams into a wall and is left unconscious. Luke thanks R2 for his valor, then Luke recovers his severed hand and then cuts the closed door open with his light saber . Luke, R2 and C‑3PO exit the room. On Coruscant, a team of Jedi doctors re-attach Luke’s hand to his arm.
Luke learns that the Republic is planning to send a military unit to the planet where the Dark Jedi are cloning Vader and Luke. Luke orders the Jedi star pilots to scramble to their fighters and join the Republic forces in the fight. The Republic and Jedi star fighters arrive at the planet where the Dark Jedi cloning facility is located. Hundreds of Dark Jedi fighters are waiting for them. A massive space battle ensues.
Luke and a dozen or so other Jedi make their way to the surface of the planet and enter the Dark Jedi cloning facility. Light saber battles erupt between the Jedi and the Dark Jedi. Luke finds the Dark Jedi leader, Shindor, and they engage in a light-saber duel. Luke eventually decapitates Shindor. The remaining Dark Jedi flee the cloning facility with the growing clones of Vader and Luke. The Jedi set explosive charges all over the cloning facility. The Jedi flee the cloning facility. A few minutes later, the cloning facility is destroyed by the exploding charges.
While the Dark Jedi cloning facility has been destroyed, the New Republic and Jedi are unaware that the Dark Jedi succeeded in preserving the growing clones of Vader and Luke, which will be utilized in the Dark Jedi’s grand scheme to conquer the galaxy. Back on Coruscant, Anakin Solo and Ben Skywalker are brought before the Jedi Council. For their bravery in combating the Dark Jedi, the Jedi Council makes Anakin and Ben full-fledged Jedi Knights. The two are given their official Jedi robes. Fade to black. Roll end credits.
You should’ve walked out, you’re so damn cringey.
Stupid Bint
I liked the original one where it’s 2 ships dropping a wrecked star destroyer on Jakku
Maybe that’s how maz got it
As far as I know the hand and lightsaber feel to the surface of Bespin. When luke feel through the shaft and the door opened the hand and lightsaber fell at the same time. Go watch that scene and let me know. Unless George retcon it, you can see it clear as day falling.
Jakku was a junk planet so it’s possible the waste from bespin ended up in on Jakku, Lightsabres hold plasma or something extremely similar which gets ludicrously hot so it’s safe to assume lighsabres are heat resistant enough to survive re entry. If you’re going to go nerd learn to nerd correctly
Seriously? That’s where you draw the line on what’s possible vs impossible in a movie that’s 100% impossible?
Your glasses just scream “LOOK AT ME, I’M SUPER QUIRKY!”
That visual of the hand and the lightsaber was the wrong hand. His right hand was cut off, not his left
“I’m really glad this wasn’t the opening of the movie or I would have walked out”
Ah yes I sure am glad I watch Star Wars for the scientific accuracy and complete correctness of every physical and scientific entity in the known universe. That sure makes these movies so wholesome and memorable for me.
This commentary was pure cancer even though the opening shot is superior imo!
Dude I would’ve loved the hand in space
God that is lazy stupid writing. I remember hearing about a hand. I remember saying Star Wars is dead. I also remember knowing Star Wars was dead after TLJ. What happened in TLJ was far worse than the stupid hand. Can you believe it?
Another way it was supposed to start just like A New Hope, until a shot reveals a massive hole in the star destroyer, it barrels to the surface of jakku, but before it hits the ground, it cuts to black and goes to Rey looting the same star destroyer in the future
The hand would have been stupid. I didn’t like the opening shot of the ship either. It didn’t look right.
The force a Awakens was still terrible
Why is everyone complaining about them thinking it’s dumb and unrealistic? It is. It’s a good thing it changed.
This would have been a MUCH BETTER opening. Seeing the Lightsaber floating in space, would have much better connected the film to the previous Trilogy. You guys don’t know what you are talking about.
Well it would’ve had to be able to withstand high temperatures… ya know on the account of the extremely hot plasma emanating from it
they definitely both like rose, i can just tell.
Yo. Dude. Maybe, this is just a hunch: MARK HAMILL SAID THAT AS A JOKE c’mon, no way JJ would have actually made that the opening.
One thing I would like to put out there is that Star Wars is a fantasy more than sci-fi, aka it’ll defy some scientific knowledge. However, though I am pointing this out, this does not show my opinion on the new Star Wars, nor am I trying to defend anything.
If anyone is curious as to what my opinion is on the new trilogy, I believe that episode 7 was pretty much a copy & paste with some changes like a bad fan fiction, aka a bad movie.
Unless…the lightsaber is made of another metal. There’s science applied
In legends, it states that when the hand fell, it fell into one of those Ugnaught Repair Rooms and before they put it into that melting machine, Darth vader takes it after killing every last one of the Ugnaughts
burn on entry depends on atmosphere type and density, and consider the amount of power Luke has in his little finger, let alone his entire right hand, I’m betting that hand intended to float to Jakku in order to reconnect the lightsabre with the force! Luke was probably in control of his severed hand the entire duration of Return of the Jedi.
now time to start that life people always talk about.….….…..
Lol she would have walked out after the opening scene? Yeah. Right.
That was totally a utterly propostrous way to start.. but even so pointing a few details people keep getting wrong about orbital mechanics
-Reentry ot amosphere doesnt imply necesarilly a fiery ball of fire .. there is not a magic layer in the atmosphere wich expontaneously burns everything that touches it… usually reentry creates lots of heat and stuff burns out because to remain in orbit speeds of about 8km/s must be achieved.. the reentry flame thing is when that object encounters the atmosphere at that speed.. but at lowe speeds it would simply fall down.. if you would build a rocket and instead of tilting sideways to enter orbit you would simply go up 400km (altitude of ISS) and fall down you wouldnt burn out or experience much heat (or not that much…).. wich is what the Jeff Bezos rocket new sheppard dows (goes 100km up into the barrier of space and then drops straight down)..
-The heat experienced in reentry is result of the speed of the objetc relativy to the earth surface..and the drag-mass ratio.. an objetc with much drag but low mass wouldnt burn .. wich is what SpaceX does to recover (or try) the Falcon 9 fairings.. those things are huge but light and they can reentry without a heatshield and without experiencing thermal damage because the atmosphere slows then so much
*The Best way.
“I would’ve walked” damn you guys are hard to impress.
Honestly, this would have been a FAR MORE emotionally-impactful beginning — movie-goers would have GASPED when they saw the hand and lightsaber and realized it was Luke’s.….. The hand would have been FROZEN in space so YES it actually does make sense.
Please stop being so absurd, NO ONE would have walked out of the movie over this 1 minute scene. PLEASE.
You can have my lightsabre.…
After you take it out of my COLD DEAD HAND.
So from what I can tell there were was another proposed opening that wasn’t used. That hand one is silly in my view, but the other I think its rather fantastic. I highly recommend you look it up but to summaries; it opens just like EP4, camera angles and ship positions, but instead of a Star Destroyer chasing down a Tantive IV, it is similar looking shops towing a Star Destroyer wreck. They then dump the wreck, just before jumping to light speed, for the wreck to then be captured by the planets gravity below and start falling. It enters the atmosphere and the camera cuts just as it kits the ground (that is sand in this case).
I find this opening rather good as it shows how much the Empire has fallen, as well as having a really nice call back.
But I understand the opening that was used as it contains story elements.
It would be a super cool beginning but I’m glad it didn’t made it
This broad bringing actual science into a Star Wars story lol