Rey's Forceback Scene From The Force Awakens

What's Really Happening In Rey's Forceback Scene From The Force Awakens

One scene that perfectly encapsulates that idea is Rey's Force vision at Maz Kanata's cantina. It was a fantastic scene, but what exactly happened? Now it seems that J.J. Abrams has some answers.
In the new Blu-ray release commentary, he said:
     
In this scene she is drawn to this place, almost like Cinderella. And she goes to this box, which, when she opens, she discovers something that of course has no meaning to her -- she's never seen this before, doesn't know what it is -- but has meaning to the audience. ... We wanted [this scene] to be a more personal story. Something that she couldn't comprehend that was overwhelming to her, frightening to her. That was taking her through all of these elemental experiences. Of fire. Of rain, snow [and] wind. But also that she was being confronted with truths about The Force, about the past, the Knights of Ren here, the past for herself. She realizes the cries that she heard were actually her own cries as a young girl being taken away from her family. And then she hears a voice. 'Rey.' 
And that's Obi-wan Kenobi.

J.J. Abrams addressed Rey's bizarre visions during her brief time at Maz' cantina towards the end of the second act of the film. He explained that the vision acts as a sort of indoctrination process to compel the young girl to face the realities of the galaxy and The Force.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story A REBELLION BUILT ON HOPE Trailer

The final trailer for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" premiered giving viewers their third glimpse of the Disney film before it hits theaters in December.

The trailer included firefights between the rebellion's X-Wings and the Empire's battle stations in space and on different planets.
It also included more looks at Darth Vader and delved deeper into Felicity Jones' character, Jyn Erso.
"Rebellions are built on hope," Erso tells her troops, giving a subtle nod to the title from the 1977 original, "Star Wars: A New Hope."

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Shows Off Costumes And Weapons

The movie Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One, will center on a Rebel Alliance mission to steal plans for the Death Star.

The Imperial Shuttle, the TIE-Strikers and the AT-ACTs will play major roles in repelling the Rebels.

"A band of resistance fighters unite for a daring mission to steal the Death Star plans in Star Wars anthology film, Rogue One."

The spinoff will take place after the Jedi order was wiped out in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, there will be no Jedi warriors in Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One. Felicity Jones is playing a Rebel Alliance warrior in the film.

The idea for these anthology films came from George Lucas himself, with a story that originated from John Knoll, visual effects supervisor and chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic.
Kathleen Kennedy said, "It was really George's idea, not only picking up the saga again - which he never envisioned he would do... he was really interested in exploring all the stories that might exist within the universe."

Star Wars: Rogue One Shows Off Costumes And Weapons
A number of costumes for the next adventure in that far, far away galaxy, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, are going public In January at the Nuremberg Toy Fair.

Rogue One is set in the time between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, and these costumes look very much like they could have been lifted right out of the original trilogy.

The hooded coat and gloves outfit is the one worn by Diego Luna’s character.
Wherever they are, it’s likely to be cold as all hell. Though there are some differences, this is very similar in appearance to Han Solo’s attire on the ice planet Hoth. And that blaster he has looks rather sturdy.

Endrio Two Tubes, an ally of the Rebellion who is upset at the Empire because they ravaged his
home planet of Yar Togna.
Edrio Two Tubes is a mercenary pilot who flies alongside his eggmate, Benthic. The two share
the nickname derived from the breathing apparatus that allows their Tognath physiology to
process oxygen atmospheres. Edrio's home world Yar Togna was conquered and occupied by the
Empire, forcing him to flee as a refugee. Desiring to strike back at the Empire, Edrio and Benthic have allied with Saw Gerrera.

Darth Vader's Back, And Badder Than Ever
Birth.Movies.Death. reports that Darth Vader will have a big presence in the spinoff, but stopped short of calling him the main antagonist. Instead, the Sith Lord is expected to be working behind the scenes, and will be seen via display screens and holograms. It’s also unclear whether the main protagonists will run into Vader during their adventures.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will see him ratchet up his tactics when it comes to his favourite pastime: crushing the rebel scum.
'The action sequences filmed are unknown, but there was work pitching the different ways Darth Vader could kill rebels on a battlefield with the Force and his lightsaber. The storyboard “pitches” showed decapitated rebels, people being dismembered by Vader throwing his sword, levitating bodies to make human shields, and so on. The art was more violent than what we’ve seen Darth Vader do on screen before.'

Making Star Wars previously reported that James Earl Jones will reprise the role.

Star Wars: Rogue One follows a group of Rebel soldiers that unite on a daring mission to steal the Death Star plans. The cast consists of Felicity Jones as the lead hero, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed, and Forest Whitaker. Disney and Lucasfilm showed the first teaser trailer for the film at Star Wars Celebration in April, and it’s been described as darker and more grounded than its predecessors.

The original concept art for Rogue One suggests we'll see a grittier side to the conflict, showing rebels and stormtroopers battling on a war-torn planet.

Star Wars Episode VIII: Script Leak Hints at Luke Skywalker's Origin

The filming for Star Wars Episode VIII, the untitled sequel to The Force Awakens , has been completed but an alleged script leak hints at Luke Skywalker's origin.

Luke walked through a chamber into a narrow corridor where he senses the presence of something that he has not felt since he was in the Death Star – face-to-face with Emperor Palpatine. As the son of Darth Vader opens the door at the end of the corridor, he meets supreme leader Snoke.

It appears Rey has been kidnapped by the forces of the supreme leader and Luke has come to her rescue. Luke apparently confronts the Force-sensitive male humanoid alien, but instead of telling him the whereabouts of Rey, Snoke lures him with information regarding the origins of his family and claims that he had seen Anakin in his early days.

When questioned by the Jedi Master, Snoke ends the scene saying: "Of course. After all, what father doesn't see his own creation?"

Star Wars Episode VIII: Script Leak Explains Who Rey Might Really Be

We’ve got alleged script leaks and a new report seems to reveal who Rey is with dialogue between
Luke, Rey and Yoda during a vision that explains the history of the Jedi Order.

Luke tells Rey that she’s got a choice to make, and if she is to make it, then she deserves to know the truth.

Together with Yoda, they embark on a vision that shows Rey the past. Rey finds out that there were two young children exploring a planet with their parents. “The boy noticed that he had greater strength and intuition when he was closer to the tree,” the allegedly leaked script reads. “The girl noticed it gave him focus, but equally anger.”

“Over the next few years, they kept returning to the tree and hiding their secrets from their parents. They found they could control simple objects around them, and over time gained greater experience of the Fight,” the script goes on – this is likely what Luke and Yoda would tell Rey.

Then an argument ensued, and the boy killed the girl. Riddled with guilt, he noticed he could still feel her. “He touched the tree, he was transformed,” they tell Rey. “Filled with anger and rage at being brought to the planet he killed his parents and left the planet.”

That’s when things get interesting, as we all find out that the girl found out she was one with the tree, and so she touched the tree, and she was transformed too. Witnesses saw everything, and so the Jedi Order was born.

The girl explained to other Jedi how the Force can be used for both good and evil, and she then told them she will return one day, and she will be either a boy or a girl. Whatever the case, they should seek her and train her.

The Jedi Order apparently spent millennia looking for The One, training millions of children to use the Force. None of them turned out to be the One, not even Darth Vader. The order was deceived, and Darth Vader killed almost all Jedi in the Clone Wars.

Following this vision, Luke and Yoda show her who her parents are, and Luke isn’t her father.
Apparently, she was identified by someone as strong with the Force and should have reached a certain destination to commence her training. However, she never reached that destination, “and the rest you know,” they tell her.

Rogue One: Using A Star Wars Actor Who Was Cut From Episode 3

By Dirk Libbey

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer is a beautiful and stunning mix of new and classic Star Wars imagery. One of the things that made us all do a double take was seeing the character of Mon Mothma make an appearance as the character who gives Jyn Erso her mission. But wait, that’s not the same actress who played the role in Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi, but rather it’s actress Genevieve O’Reilly, who’s actually playing the role for the second time.

The character of Mon Mothma is best known as the woman who gives the briefing on the Death Star attack in Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi. If you’ve been through your prequel trilogy DVDs, you also know that the character was supposed to make an appearance, playing a young senator in Star Wars: The Revenge of the Sith. As Entertainment Weekly point out, Genevieve O’Reilly was the actress who played the part, though the scene was eventually cut from the final version of the film.

In Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Mon Mothma was a young Senator, but now, more than 10 years after that film was released, Genevieve O’Reilly is a little older, and the perfect age to play the older Mon Mothma, just a few years before we would see her in Return of the Jedi.

Darth Vader in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Casting
It was reported last year that The Sith Lord would feature in the movie and Vader will in fact be played by Spencer Wilding, a British stunt actor who has worked on Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Who and Batman Begins.

Wilding has been running lines on set, but his voice will be replaced by James Earl Jones.

Senator Leia: Bloodline; Early Days of the First Order

The New Republic now finds itself divided into two factions: The Centrists and the Populists, an idea given to author Claudia Gray by Episode VIII director Rian Johnson.

Centrists favor a strong, unified government, believing the defunct Empire’s vision of unity to have been a good idea corrupted by the evil of Emperor Palpatine.
The Populists, living in fear of another Palpatine seizing power, generally support a hands-off approach to governing that allows individual systems their own autonomy. We find Leia on the Populist side of the debate,
driven by her own experiences as the commander of the Rebel Alliance.

With his home world of Kashyyyk finally liberated, Chewie has returned there to settle down and raise a family.

This leaves Han to own devices, and although he’s still married to Leia, he’s out training and mentoring young
racing pilots while she remains on Hosnian Prime to help run the Senate. (There’s no mention of the Millenium Falcon either, meaning it’s already been stolen from its original owners.)

Han and Leia have already sent Ben away to train with Luke, where the pair is apparently out of contact with the rest of the outside world. We know that Leia looks back on sending Ben away as the moment she and Han lost their son for good, so one can reasonably assume there were issues with him that preceded his Jedi training with Luke.
Additionally, Leia hasn’t yet told her son he’s the grandson of Darth Vader, a revelation we imagine shakes his world sometime in the next six years.

The early days of the First Order actually come courtesy of a Centrist Senator in the New Republic, secretly utilizing illegal cartel money to build and fund the military force. Much of Bloodline involves Leia investigating this, unaware that she’s actually uncovering the next great threat to the entire galaxy.

Bloodline shows Leia involved more in politics than connecting the Force though, creating a curious situation, where she eschews her potential to be a powerful Jedi in favor of governing the galaxy as a Senator.
 








The novel shows us Leia reflecting on this very dilemma, telling us about how she felt the place she could do the most good for the galaxy was in rebuilding its government, not going off to become a Jedi. We find her at a time where she’s jaded and frustrated by the Senate’s inability to cooperate, and yet still, she’s also one of its most respected and influential members. Obviously, her frustration leads to her leaving the Senate to form the Resistance.

Senator Leia's 'Force Awakens' Backstory: Resistance Origins in 'Star Wars: Bloodline'

The story, set just six years before the events of The Force Awakens, focuses on Princess Leia Organa in her role as senator in the New Republic.

Leia, who eschewed becoming a Jedi like Luke, is fed up with the squabbling politicians, split into the intractable factions of Populists and Centrists following Mon Mothma’s departure as chancellor.
Leia would rather leave behind the government pettiness on Hosnian Prime and go travel the universe with hubby Han Solo. Since the event of Jedi, Han helped out Chewbacca with a sticky situation on the latter’s home world of Kashyyyk.
Chewie has remained on his planet with his family, while Mr. Kessel Run has formed his own championship racing team.

Although theirs is a long-distance relationship, Han and Leia are still very much in love, and he plays a big part in Bloodline.

Joining Leia on Hosnian Prime is her chief of staff, Greer Sonnel, one of Han’s former racing protégées; teen intern Korr Sella (who appears briefly in The Force Awakens as Hosnian Prime later gets vaporized); ace X-wing pilot escort Joph Seastriker; savvy political rival Ransolm Casterfo; and the scheming Lady Carise Sindian. Bloodline also name checks several classic characters (including Lando).

The book’s title is a direct reference to Leia’s parentage. Luke and Leia have learned that
their mother was Padmé Amidala. But much of the novel focuses on Leia’s two very different
dads.

Leia receives a lovely holocron message recorded to her by Bail Organa, her adopted father but the man she really considers her paterfamilias. However, the message also reveals the secret of Leia’s true father — something she has kept hidden from everyone but Han and Luke.
Even her son, Ben, doesn’t know. Then, her adversaries in the Senate find the holocron and play it to devastating results.

As the political intrigue plays out on Hosnian Prime, Leia also tries to piece together the provenance of a shadowy outfit operating on the fringes of the galaxy and to make sure it isn’t a threat to the hard-fought peace.

Reveal: Why C-3PO Has a Red Arm in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

By Joshua Yehl

In Star Wars Special: C-3PO #1 from Marvel Comics, written by James Robinson with art by Tony Harris, we got the answer about C-3PO and why he had a red arm, in a story that takes place before the events of Force Awakens.

In a story called "The Phantom Limb," C-3PO and a group of four other droids hurry off of a crashed Resistance ship before it explodes.
C-3PO mentions a Captain Hoff and the ship’s crew, and it’s implied they all died in the crash and subsequent explosion, leaving the droids to complete their mission by reaching a downed ship across the planet.

Their mission is to escort a First Order protocol droid, named OMRI, to the Resistance so they can datamine him for the location of the captured Admiral Ackbar.

As they journey the hostile planet full of savage creatures and perilous obstacles, C-3PO and OMRI have an ongoing conversation about the nature of being a droid and how they fall on either side of a larger conflict. They talk about how droids often have their memories wiped, and how they sometimes remember their older lives, with C-3PO vaguely recounting the events of the prequel trilogy, which leads to them realizing they could have once fought for the other side and never know it.

They are beset by alien beasts along their journey, and at one point C-3PO is grabbed by the tentacle of a large monster that rips his arm off, but he was able to escape with the help of OMRI.

The other droids, however, were not so lucky. By the time the ship is in sight, they’ve all been destroyed, leaving just C-3PO and OMRI. Acid rain begins to pour down, so they take cover just yards away from their goal. OMRI decides to choose friendship over choosing a side, and so he gives Ackbar’s whereabouts to C-3PO and then sacrifices himself by walking into the acid rain in order to activate the homing beacon. The rain eats away at OMRI’s plating, revealing red primer underneath.

C-3PO gets rescued by Poe Dameron and BB-8, and he keeps the red arm, wearing it as a reminder of the droid friends he lost and the lesson OMRI taught him.

Reveal: Who is Lor San Tekka in Star Wars: The Force Awakens?

"A legendary traveler and explorer, Lor San Tekka is a longtime ally of the New Republic and the Resistance.

After the Battle of Endor, San Tekka helped Luke Skywalker recover secret Jedi lore that the Empire had tried to erase, and Leia Organa hopes the old scout can now help find her brother.

Following decades of adventure, San Tekka retired to live simply on Jakku, where he follows the dictates of the once-forbidden Church of the Force.

The Church of the Force is an "underground" sort of faith that operates illegally - due to the laws inflicted by The Empire (and, more secretly, The Sith). The Church of the Force is "loosely affiliated worshipers of the Jedi ideals, who steadfastly believe that one day their light would return to the galaxy."

Tekka is not a Jedi. Instead, Tekka is part of a "collective of worshippers" at Tuanul village, "who praise the virtues of the Force without being graced by the ability to wield it."

As The Empire fell, they essentially inflicted a bit of the ol' Scorched Earth on the knowledge they'd gained of the universe at large. They "destroyed records that would have been vital to the New Republic's attempts at galactic reconstruction."

As such, the New Republic relied on people like Lor San Tekka, who is a "font of obscure information" about the Outer Rim and esoteric bits of knowledge like what is contained on his "antiquated data storage unit," this is Lor's "most valued possession."

"This will begin to make things right."

Tekka gives this data storage unit to Poe Dameron shortly before Tuanul village is destroyed by stormtroopers from the First Order.