Star Wars : The Force Awakens is absolutely break with cool set pieces . But you did n’t see half the insane stuff the movie ’s output squad come up up with . former versions of the tarradiddle were full of Darth Vader ’s ghostwriter , an underwater Death Star , and more . Here are 13 thing they go forth out of Episode VII .
Warning : There are a few nonaged looter for The Force Awakens below , in the context of discussing what is n’t in the movie .
We’vefeatured some dead brilliant concept artfrom the new bookThe Art of Star Wars : The Force Awakens . But this book is also chock full of details about the making of the movie — a lot of stuff we ’ve heard before , but also a lot of hooey that we ’d never learn , or only heard as rumor .
There are also gross ton of insight into the creative summons of putting this film together , and the incredible amounts of brainstorm and conceive of that the artist were doing . While Michael Arndt , and later Lawrence Kasdan and J.J. Abrams , were creating the script , some of the best concept artists on the major planet were coming up with some fascinating imaginativeness for what a Modern Star Wars could look like . Every page of this book take not just beautiful nontextual matter , but also some really cool details about how the team cogitate of this far - away galaxy , decade after Return of the Jedi .
So here are the plot line that they earnestly think throw in The Force Awakens , but ended up leaving out . ( Alas , we ca n’t actually reproduce all the art we ’re describing here , but you’re able to always grease one’s palms the book and see it for yourself ! )
former artwork of him shows a improbable character with red skin and a monocle over one center . Then the artist were asked to “ Boba up ” the Jedi Killer , and he started to calculate a routine more like Kylo Ren . Also , the “ Jedi Killer ” was supposed to gain power from eating sunlight energy . There ’s graphics showing him going into his speculation chamber , which is exposed to a star that is very nearby , and the Jedi Killer absorbs the star topology ’s zip .
There ’s also one tantalizing piece of construct fine art of Darth Talon , the villain from the Star Wars : Legacy funnies . So maybe they were considering bringing her into the “ main ” persistence for a moment .
Plus , other designs for Kylo Ren saw him as a genuine Darth Vader imitator — J.J. Abrams like the theme that someone was impersonating Darth Vader for mess with Luke Skywalker ’s principal .
One other piece of concept art shows a novel version of AT - ATs , walking in a white landscape with red - blistering lava pullulate out of an active volcano powerful behind them . Early on , Michael Arndt was really interested in the theme of “ fire and ice , ” and wanted to have one character handle a forked lightsaber , where one side was cerise and the other side was blue .
Kathleen Kennedy had this idea for a sequence where Luke is being swallowed by sand — the moxie is pouring on top of him , burying him , and he just lays there , not reacting . Until he dead opens his eyes , and it ’s spooky as the pits . There ’s a fairly haunting illustration of this . Also , there are word-painting of Luke looking more like a specter .
There were program , in the Original Trilogy , to natter the castle where Darth Vader go when he ’s not force - choking Imperial officers . We never made it there back then — but we could have gone to Vader ’s rook in The Force Awakens . There ’s some moderately sweet concept prowess of Vader ’s clash pad .
primitively , the estimate of a planet full of blank rubble included a lot more material from the Original Trilogy . And alternatively of the desert mankind of Jakku , it was a swampy place , with an sea . Part of the 2d Death Star , from Return of the Jedi , ends up at the bottom of the ocean , including the Emperor ’s Tower . Rey ( who was call Kira at this point ) has to dive into that ocean and swim inside the Emperor ’s Tower and find the map that shows where the Jedi are , and where Luke is hiding . There ’s also beautiful concept art of the Emperor ’s sunken sleeping accommodation , with body floating around .
And the Millennium Falcon was going to plunge under the water , to recover the Death Star wreckage , and possibly also deliver Kira .
At one point , there were apparently infinite literary pirate . They capture the Millennium Falcon . They attack our heroes . They even pressure Rey ( who was have sex as Kira back then ) to walk the board off their spaceship , over a bombastic body of water .
There ’s construct art of Hayden Christensen as a Force ghost talking to Luke Skywalker . Artist Ian McCaig says that he was inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin ’s famous quote that to light a candle is also to rove a shadow . So Luke regress could have bring Anakin back , as well . And there ’s concept art of Anakin ’s Force ghost phasing back and forth between Anakin and Darth Vader , as he flows between the two different version of the character . This symbolizes the fact that Luke Skywalker is the first person ever to acknowledge his own dark side , rather than rejecting it , which has turned Luke into a “ whole new entity . ”
He was in the first place predict “ John Doe , ” which would have been an unusually non - descript name for a Star Wars fictional character . And at first , he was maybe a Jedi . Then he became a bounty hunter — so they diddle with giving him a Wookiee sidekick .
J.J. Abrams was keen on the idea that the opening of Episode VII should be intimate , but with a kink . So they storyboarded an gap sequence where a star undoer soar up over a satellite , and it looks just like the first step to A New Hope … until you see that the genius destroyer has a huge hole in its underbelly . And scavengers are pulling stuff out of it into a modest spaceship , until they have an accident and clangour on the satellite .
Instead of just a random snow planet , we could have blend to the planet where the Rebels were based back in Episode IV . The Imperials have taken over and rebuilt the facility into their own base . And that volcano we cite earlier ? The major planet - killer would have fired out of it . Also , the planet - cause of death was call the “ Doom Star ” at one point .
There ’s also a killer raw design for an AT - AT with a head more like a hammerhead shark .
rather of the slaughter we find at the kickoff of the film , Finn ( who was called “ Sam ” ) , would have desert after realise some capture Rebels executed . There ’s construct artistry of the Rebels being lined up by a firing squad … and then their bodies float in space , as Sam watches in revulsion .
Also , after “ Sam ” and “ John Doe ” crash their TIE fighter on the satellite , John Doe chooses to leave Sam behind . And then instead of what come about next in the actual film , Sam gets rescue by members of an “ autochthonal alien tribe ” who take him back to their village and “ perform a healing ritual , ” so that “ Sam is reborn a submarine . ” ( Sam is also snowy in all of this concept nontextual matter , and John Doe is black . )
There ’s one piece of concept art that shows Sam ’s Stormtrooper helmet , still stained with the blooming handprint of his ally , but it ’s being worn by the outlander that ’s just deliver him — and it freaks Sam out .
And it ’s a ginormous ship that has a massively armoured front , that can get through a satellite ’s shields and then deploy smaller ships through the hole it ’s made . There ’s lot of concept art of the Warhammer come down and bust a planet ’s defence open .
They were fiddle with way to make the main baddie less like the Emperor , and J.J. Abrams did n’t need Snoke to be sometime and flea-bitten like Palpatine . And at one stop , they almost made Snoke female . They also toyed with the musical theme that Snoke is implausibly beautiful to appear at , like a marble statue , but then you realize the Dark Side has consumed him and turn him into something ghoulish .
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