Star Wars: The Force Awakens deleted scenes photos shed new light on the plot
With Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm making domestic box office champion Star Wars: The Force Awakens available digitally on April 1 and on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD on April 5, Entertainment Weekly has revealed several Force Awakens deleted scenes photos, as well as new info on what the scenes contain. Check out the Star Wars: The Force Awakens deleted scenes photos in our gallery below, and be sure to pre-order your copy of the film at this link.
The Force Awakens deleted scenes on the disc will include:
-Stormtrooper Finn’s run-in with a Jakku village woman in the opening attack.
-Han, Finn, and Chewie face down a squadron of stormtroopers in Maz Kanata’s basement.
-Kylo Ren leads snowtroopers to the crashed Millennium Falcon at Starkiller Base, and has an emotional remembrance inside.
-General Leia is introduced earlier in the film, as Major Brance (Emun Elliott) gets a distress signal from BB-8 informing them of the attack on the Jakku village.
-Poe Dameron and the other X-Wings prepare for lightspeed as they head into battle, giving us a chance to see starships in space.
-Finn and Rey escape Starkiller base on a First Order snowspeeder, while another gives chase.
-Rey gets an update on an injured Finn’s condition from Dr. Kalonia (Harriet Walton).
The film shattered box office records upon its debut and has grossed over $932 million domestic and $2.059 billion worldwide.
Directed by J.J. Abrams, written by Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt, and produced by Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was named one of AFI’s top ten films of 2015 and received five Academy Award nominations, for film editing, visual effects, sound editing, sound mixing, and for series composer John Williams’ original score.
The Star Wars Saga continues December 15, 2017, in Star Wars: Episode VIII, picking up in the wake of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Later this year, Rogue One, a new adventure detailing events prior to Star Wars: A New Hope, takes flight on December 16, 2016.
