As Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens begins its year-long campaign towards its holiday season 2015 premiere, we are starting to hear more and more details of J.J. Abrams’ new installment of the iconic film franchise – details that seem FAR more solid than a lot of the early rumors surrounding this closely-guarded film.

Today we have even more details from Star Wars 7, and they too seem less like rumor and more like actual details that could reveal some pivotal and shocking turns of the plot.


After the defeat of the Empire, the war is not over. Splintered Imperial forces remain active, while the Rebellion has not made a clear (or morally clean) transition to rule. There is essentially a galactic Cold War happening.
Imperial soldier FINN (John Boyega) defects to Tatooine; there he meets scrap collector REY (Daisy Ridley) and her droid BB-8
Daisy’s mentor (Max von Sydow) points them toward a larger destiny involving a lightsaber that is connected to the now-absent Jedi.
That lightsaber leads to HAN SOLO and CHEWBACCA, who take Rey, Finn and BB-8 on a galactic quest to find LUKE SKYWALKER
Luke is supposedly in exile, guarding a Sith tomb (or some sacred site) for which Finn’s lightsaber is the key
Meanwhile, an Imperial commander (Gwendoline Christie) is on Finn’s trail for defecting
A pivotal character (Domhall Gleeson as Luke’s possible son) is acting as double-agent against both the Rebellion and the Empire, in order to stop super weapons possessed by both sides
And a Darkside user named KYLO REN (presumably Adam Driver) will be hunting down the lightsaber and its wielders.


Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens will be in theaters on December 18, 2015.