A New New Hope

Art by James Hance

Star Wars VII Rumors:

Even though some of my posts might suggest otherwise, I just love a good space opera. And I must admit that I'm the biggest sucker for Star Wars. I've always been since I saw for the first time it back in '78. Out of the theatre came a little chubby 7 years old old boy, who felt a veil had been removed from his eyes. 
I read every scifi book there was in the local library, and quickly learned to love Bradbury, Herbert and Asimov. It must have been around the same time I discovered Valérian and Laureline, which I've written about here.


So you can probably guess, that I'm quite excited about the new Star Wars - episode VII - even though I've learned not to get my hopes up too high. But then again - J.J. Abrams cannot possible screw up the Star Wars saga as George Lucas did. Geroge Lucas turned his own creation into the worst pile of pointless gobbledygook through bad directing and overusing VFX. It got so silly in the end (Episode I-III), that even though the designs and visuals in general were stunning, you consciousness never left the theatre while watching the movies.


SO Anyway: According to an article in io9.com article the thing that sets the whole plot in Star Wars VII in motion is Luke Skywalker's hand and lightsaber from The Empire Strikes Back.

The new heroes of the trilogy find it (played by Daisy Ridley and John Boyega), and they decide to return it (the hand too? A bit grose, but hey, so was Jar jar) to the proper people. They run into Han and Chewie, who recognize it as Luke's (the hand or the light sabre?), but they haven't seen Luke since Return of the Jedi (I knew it! Luke just couldn't cope with the fact, that he had a crush on his sis!)."Other details include an ice planet where evil people are building a weapon that can destroy whole solar systems. (Of all the things that survived the great EU purge, I was not expecting the Suncrusher to be one of them).

In many ways this plot of Episode VII is an echo of A New Hope. Instead of R2 coming to Tatooine it's a hand falling from the sky, but the basic sweep of the story is similar, and intentionally so. But things that seem familiar may not be as familiar as you think - don't assume that every ice or desert planet in the galaxy has already been visited, if you know what I'm saying. "

The original article at Badassdigest: here.
Article in io9: here.

AND don't forget to check out J.J. Abrams own little clips (Force for Change) here: