Disney has sent out The Force Awakens screenplay to Writers Guild of America members for awards consideration, and /Film had the smart idea of breaking down the many moments of ambiguity from the movie that are clarified by reading through the script. Spoilers incoming; you’ve been warned.
According to /Film, the script offers a lot of insight about the vision Rey has at Maz’s fortress:
We pretty much knew that the first image is that of a hallway in Cloud City, but this script confirms it, calling it “a hallway of from deep inside Cloud City” and mentions a “mechanical breathing sound” and also that “disembodied voices fill the air.”
Some people have argued that the image of Luke Skywalker and R2-D2 was not from the attack on Skywalker’s new Jedi Training Academy, but the script confirms that we “see a BURNING TEMPLE AT NIGHT” in the background.
As for the man stabbed with a lightsaber, some fans have incorrectly identified that as Constable Zuvio, but we’ve previously debunked that claim. The script says that it is “A WARRIOR” who is stabbed by “A FIERY LIGHTSABER!”
And while we have assumed that the men around Kylo Ren in this vision are the Knights of Ren, the screenplay officially confirms this: “We PIVOT AROUND HER to REVEAL KYLO REN, and the six other KNIGHTS OF REN, who flank him!”
Another potentially significant detail revealed is Luke’s reaction to first seeing Rey; according to the script, he “doesn’t need to ask her who she is, or what she is doing here.” After Rey offers Luke his lightsaber, the script reads: “HOLD ON LUKE SKYWALKER’S INCREDIBLE FACE, amazed and conflicted at what he sees, as our MUSIC BUILDS, the promise of an adventure, just beginning…”
“HOLD ON LUKE SKYWALKER’S INCREDIBLE FACE” would make a great band name.
Although personally these new details don’t convince me that Luke is Rey’s father (I’m still holding out hope he isn’t, personally), it is interesting to know a little bit more about where Luke’s head is supposed to be at in the climactic Force Awakens moment.
To read more details about TFA--including who Rey was left with when she was abandoned on Jakku as a child–head over to /Film.
(via io9)
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