New Details on the Villains of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
We won’t have to wait much longer to discover all the mysteries shrouded in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The director has said that some of the rumors that have been reported are true, and we’ll find out which of those rumors are true when the movie is released later this year. While we wait for that, we have a few more bits of information to share with you regarding the villains of the story.
The following information comes from Making Star Wars, and it’s a combination of facts that they’ve learned and speculation on how it could all fit together. There is a lot of SPOILER filled information here, so if you don’t want to know any more than you already do about the movie, I suggest that you turn back now.
Here are some of the points that they make in their discussion:
There are several villains in the story.
Kylo Ren is the new main villain, and he has the most screen time. The other villains don’t have much.
Andy Serkis’ character “Uber” has three short scenes.
Captain Phasma is is a female Boba Fett-type character, but she’s not in the film much. This character will grow through the course of the new trilogy.
Kylo Ren may have some interesting connections to the heroes in the story.
They go on to speculate on how it can all fit together:
“We know that when “Uber” wants to use the Catapult, Kylo is worried and he is told not to get “sentimental” by “Uber.” There’s a sequence in the middle of the film that sticks out to me, furthering that connection: Han Solo and Chewbacca pilot the Falcon. Rey and Finn are aboard. The Falcon is shot down by Kylo’s ship. The Falcon crashes onto the snow planet’s surface. Kylo and his troops track down the ship and Stormtroopers board it, followed by Kylo. Kylo walks into the cockpit of the Falcon and sits in the pilot’s seat and has a moment. That’s the hero’s sphere. You would never see Darth Vader do that. But Kylo does that. There’s almost an implication of remorse, maybe frustration, in that action to me. There’s emotion there. To me that says there’s a connection between Kylo, the ship and its pilot. It is almost as if he is sitting at the desk of the job he felt he would one day hold and now due to circumstances never will. Maybe Han is his father? We know this relationship ends badly though. He sits in the man’s chair before he kills him.
This could prove to be a very intriguing dynamic, if it plays out this way. They go on to briefly discuss a character called The General, played by Domhnall Gleeson. He is an Imperial Officer-type, and there is a moment where he has a “final check-in with his boss,” his Boss being Uber. There were rumors that The General was Luke Skywalkers’s son, but the report says they’ve seen no indication of that. The site thinks that the final check in with Uber will feature The General telling him that he has failed and the weapon is lost. They go on to say that The General eventually dies as some explosive charges are being detonated.
The site then talks about a three-way duel between Finn, Rey, and Ren. This is the description of that from the script:
CLIFF EDGE: Finn & Rey’s duel with Kylo Ren ends. Ground falls away behind Rey. Rey and Finn on precipice. Kylo Ren exits. Chewbacca arrives.
The site claims that the duel ends when the side of the mountain collapses. Kylo isn’t heard of again in The Force Awakens. There’s no word on if he falls to his death, or if he’ll show up in the next chapter of the story. They believe he isn't dead, though. It’s also at this point that Chewbacca shows up in a repaired Millennium Falcon and saves Rey and Finn from falling to their deaths.
They believe that there’s a chance Rey and Kylo are brother and sister, the children of Han Solo and Princess Leia.
There’s lots of great stuff here to digest and think about. We’ll just have to wait and see if it this is how it will all play out, or if we’ll be surprised by something different. I really do like the direction explained here, though. What do you all think of it?