Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (USE SPOILER TAGS!)

[nagysaudio]

OK. I don't believe anyone is saying that they find Luke's hand. They find Luke's light saber. Sure the hand can be seen severed and floating in space (to us audience so we can wonder if Luke is dead throughout), but only the light saber survives re-entry. At least this would be more plausible. And why would some of you think that this hand is from Cloud City? Seriously??? Seriously?

[captveg]

Ah, SW rumors. Always crazy. Always

[kemcha]

I find it far too creepy if they are opening the new film with a severed hand floating in space. Especially if Lucasfilm wants this film to appeal to kids. Knowing Abrams, it'll be dark and creepy.

[tigertron]

This whole thing sounds BS to me. I doubt it's real.

[aiman04]

Watch J.J. Abrams unveil a final surprise to support the last week of Star Wars: ‪#‎ForceForChange‬.

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[rickah88]

Originally Posted by aiman04

Watch J.J. Abrams unveil a final surprise to support the last week of Star Wars: ‪#‎ForceForChange‬.

Star Wars: Force for Change - An Update from J.J. Abrams - YouTube

Very cool! Looks like a Z95!

[peckinpah]

Originally Posted by nagysaudio

OK. I don't believe anyone is saying that they find Luke's hand. They find Luke's light saber. Sure the hand can be seen severed and floating in space (to us audience so we can wonder if Luke is dead throughout), but only the light saber survives re-entry. At least this would be more plausible. And why would some of you think that this hand is from Cloud City? Seriously??? Seriously?

Taken directly from Faraci's story: "That hand falls onto a desert planet, where it is discovered by characters who will be our heroes."

[peckinpah]

Originally Posted by aiman04

PS: The fridge scene in Skull, which I like, was Steven Spielberg's idea. There were many crazy ideas too in Raiders from him but were toned down by Lucas. Go read the making of books.

Preach it. When you get right down to it, the fridge thing is no more ridiculous than the U-boat thing.

[RandyK]

Originally Posted by rickah88

Very cool! Looks like a Z95!

@simonpegg: It's not a Z95, it's an X-Wing, and what's beautiful is that appears to be an old McQuarrie model.

From Simon Pegg.

[Walts Ghost]

Originally Posted by kemcha

I find it far too creepy if they are opening the new film with a severed hand floating in space. Especially if Lucasfilm wants this film to appeal to kids. Knowing Abrams, it'll be dark and creepy.

It's no more dark and creepy than things that have come before...You know, like watching Anakin burn to death on Mustafar.

[rickah88]

Originally Posted by RandyK

From Simon Pegg.

As much as I like, and respect, Simon Pegg...that does not look like a split wing.

[BLUEGRASS]

Another spoiler from http://badassdigest.com/ concerning John Boyega's character:

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Boyega plays a storm trooper. A storm trooper who basically deserts and teams up with Daisy Ridley's character.

Boyega as storm trooper is the single most confirmed piece of news I've ever written about in terms of sheer volume of independent sources who agree.

[nagysaudio]

Originally Posted by peckinpah

Taken directly from Faraci's story: "That hand falls onto a desert planet, where it is discovered by characters who will be our heroes."

But that could just be poor writing on Feraci's part.

[peckinpah]

Originally Posted by nagysaudio

But that could just be poor writing on Feraci's part.

As his numerous followup comments and tweets make clear, the hand survives its encounter with the planet's atmosphere.

[chip75]

Originally Posted by rickah88

As much as I like, and respect, Simon Pegg...that does not look like a split wing.

It looks like it splits to me.

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[nagysaudio]

Originally Posted by peckinpah

As his numerous followup comments and tweets make clear, the hand survives its encounter with the planet's atmosphere.

Is it the bio mechanical hand? Or Luke's only flesh hand? It makes little sense for the hand to survive re-entry. And that's not needed to propel the story.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by rickah88

As much as I like, and respect, Simon Pegg...that does not look like a split wing.

Sure it does. The wing might look completely fixed in that situation because it's a model, but you can see the divide between the two engines (as chip has just pointed out) and the actual splitting would be done in VFX. I think that the Pegg is right in this case, McQuarrie's drawings also have that split-engine look, and they also have the rounder fuselage at the ass-end. Aren't they using McQuarrie's stuff as reference on Rebels, too?

But with that paint job, it almost looks like something from Clone Wars. In any case, me likey. LOVED seeing the little RC droid trundle past JJ too. It's a cheap gag (one that's been revisited in Ep III, not to mention the Clone Wars) but I loved it all the same.

[rickah88]

My bad, I missed it on the first viewing, but there are 2 sets of cannons on the wing. I thought there was only one cannon on each wing.

[Geoff D]

Dude, just google McQuarrie's x-wing design. There's two cannons on each wing (one for each 'split').

[NYorker]

This is such a stupid idea, I really, really hope it's not true.