If you don’t want any of Star Wars: Episode VII spoiled for you, it’s probably a good idea to just stop reading right now.
According to Badass Digest, we now know the character John Boyega will be playing: a storm trooper who decides to desert. He’ll team up with Daisy Ridley’s character, although at this stage it is unclear how she’ll fit into the movie.
As for the plot itself? Badass Digest has that as well, providing a basic synopsis of the opening action that sets up the rest of the movie:
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...
The hand, as you may remember, belongs to Luke from when Darth Vader chopped it off in The Empire Strikes Back. The many Star Wars books in existence have speculated as to what happened to it, and obviously from the DNA of a legit Jedi Knight would be a hot commodity on the open market. So maybe Boyega and Ridley are just looking to make some cash?
We’re sure there are plenty more details to come, and we’ll pass those along as soon as we have them. Hopefully, not all of them involve severed limbs.
[via UPROXX]
