Over the weekend a rumored plot synopsis for Star Wars: Episode VII began making the rounds online and now director J.J. Abrams has unveiled the Star Wars: Episode VII X-Wing in support of Star Wars: Force for Change campaign’s final week.
First the rumored synopsis via Badass Digest, which is said to be a “echoing” the Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope plot. So, I guess it’s entirely impossible to come up with something new even when you have a complete universe to explore. So now, if this synopsis is true, Abrams has gone on to remake Wrath of Khan with Star Trek into Darkness after completely reinventing that franchise and with Star Wars he’s doing it right out of the gates.
Imagine the standard Star Wars crawl, and when it ends the camera pans up to the stars. But instead of a spaceship zooming into frame we see… a hand! A severed hand, tumbling through space. A severed hand gripping a light saber.
That hand falls onto a desert planet, where it is discovered by characters who will be our heroes. One is Daisy Ridley. The other is John Boyega, who is playing someone trying to change his path in life (again, I’m keeping it vague here). They recognize the light saber as a Jedi relic and decide to return it to the proper people.
Their quest takes them off world, and they meet up with Han Solo and Chewbacca, who aren’t flying around in the Millenium Falcon anymore but are piloting… well, that could be a spoiler. I’ll leave it. Anyway, Han and Chewie recognize the light saber as Luke’s, and they say they haven’t seen their friend in thirty years, since the events of Return of the Jedi.
So begins a quest to find the missing Jedi Master. Meanwhile, on an ice planet, nefarious forces are building a super weapon, one capable of destroying not planets but entire solar systems…
Now here’s the video in which Abrams discusses the Star Wars: Force for Change campaign’s final days and reveals the new X-Wing. The film hits theaters on December 18, 2015.
