With the introduction of 2016, Disney has released the screenplay for Star Wars: The Force Awakens to the Writer’s Guild for awards consideration. And you may figure that the script adds a lot more detail to the film that may answer some of the many questions that surround the movie.
SPOILER ALERT! The following will spoil many events in The Force Awakens . If you haven’t seen it yet, turn back now and go watch the movie. It’s pretty good.
According to the Star Wars: The Force Awakens script, the planet that Luke has been hiding on and where Rey finds him at the end of the film is actually called “Ach-to.” This planet features a "pristine and mighty" ocean that is "dotted with random, beautiful, mountainous black rock islands," as well as "countless green trees."
Lucasfilm's Story Group member Pablo Hidalgo on twitter confirmed the findings in the script including the planet that Luke was found on.
So if you can see the WGA script, yes, the name of the planet from the end of the movie is there.
— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) January 1, 2016/Film notes that the word “Ach” is Hebrew for brother and they speculate that could mean something to the relationship between Rey and Luke. However, to think that Rey is Luke’s sibling instead of possibly his daughter would seem out of place.
But what the Star Wars: The Force Awakens script does confirm is that Luke known who Rey is when they finally meet at the end of the film. The screenplay says that Luke “doesn’t need to ask her who she is, or what she is doing here.” The script also describes Luke Skywalker as having “kindness in his eyes”
Rey’s visions when she touches Luke’s lighsaber confirm that Cloud City was shown. And the scene when Luke is touching R2-D2 is when Kylo Ren attacked his new Jedi Academy.
The script also confirms that Rey was left in the care of Unkar Plutt (Simon Pegg) , the junk dealer of Jaku as the script says “Unkar Plutt’s meaty hand holds her thin arm” while the starship that brought her there flies off “towards the desert sun.”
And then we have Kylo Ren . The screenplay details that Ren is “horrified” and “somehow weakened” when he kills his father, Han Solo. This may explain why he became overmatched by Finn and Rey during the final battle.
The Force Awakens novelization confirms that Snoke informs Ren that Darth Vader’s connection and love to Luke was the reason the dark side fell, giving more weight to Ren’s decision to murder his father.
The script even goes even further to show that Rey, not Ren, has a harder fight with the dark side.
During the battle with Rey, the script emphasized that Ren feared for his life, noting that Rey nearly killed him before she realized that she was standing “on a greater edge than even the cliff — the edge of the dark side."
The novelization of The Force Awakens goes as far as to say that Rey heard an “amorphous” voice urging her to kill Ren, which, according to the audio book, appears to be Supreme Leader Snoke. Seems like Episode 8 will be dealing with Rey’s fight with the dark side.
All of this is setting up for what will happen in Episode 8. Thankfully, fans will only have to wait a little more than a year when Star Wars: Episode 8 releases in 2017.
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