Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is an upcoming American
epic space opera film directed by J. J. Abrams. The seventh installment
in the main Star Wars film series, it stars Harrison Ford,
Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega,
Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels,
Peter Mayhew, and Max von Sydow. The story is set approximately 30 years
after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983).
In this continuation of the epic space opera saga, a downed stormtrooper (
John Boyega) goes on a journey reconnecting him with heroic faces from the
past (Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill).
The film opens as A lightsaber tumbles out of space. It enters the atmosphere
of a desert planet and plunges to the ground. This is the planet of Jakku. The
lightsaber is retrieved by a mysterious hand. It finds its way to a village elder,
codenamed the Vicar, played by Max Von Sydow. The Vicar contacts the Resistance
(the good guys). An X-wing pilot, Poe Dameron–played by Oscar Isaac–arrives with
his droid, BB-8, to collect the lightsaber from the Vicar. The exchange happens
in his hut. Suddenly, the sound of ships are heard in the night. The First Order
(the bad guys) are onto them! Poe Dameron places the lightsaber inside BB-8 and
orders him to flee. Run, BB-8! Run!