10 Alternate Star Wars Movie Scenes We Almost Got To See
9. Luke's Floating Hand - The Force Awakens
Speaking of the wise old Jedi who acts as the invisible driving force of that return to the galaxy far, far away, there was once a version of The Force Awakens that didn't actually leave its first real Luke Skywalker appearance until the last shot.
As revealed by the man himself Mark Hamill during a conversation with The Tonight Show, the scene that would've originally opened the Sequel Trilogy-starting flick would've seen Luke's hand, equipped with trusty lightsaber, floating through space before we followed it crashing through the stratosphere and burning to a crisp, leaving his weapon bouncing off the ground.
Hamill has admitted that he loved the symmetry of him starting and ending the first Sequel flick, but Abrams and co. clearly begged to differ and this OG opening was quickly given the chop (couldn't resist) in favour of the sequence that sees Kylo Ren and The First Order chase down Poe Dameron.
Watching a hand blister into nothingness is certainly a bold choice for a first shot back in the Star Wars universe. Yet, it's not hard to see why Abrams felt the Jakku raid was the better and likely safer option of the two.