Confirmed! Ep.8 begins right after TFA.

I mean, at this point we have absolutely no idea how it will turn out. It seems like Rian is going to shake it up a bit though.

 

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Film opens with

Opening Crawl
Star Destroyers and Ren/ Hux planning with Snoke
Rey hands Luke saber

the end of Episode 7 was actually Episode 8if you want to get technical

 

There was always a gap between Star Wars films.

However, Disney Wars isn't really Star Wars.

So keeping this in mind, this totally unnecessary change makes perfect sense.

 

Here is one of many;
http://www.slashfilm.com/star-wars-episode-viii-opening/

 

Although there is a possibility for Ep VIII to start right after Ep. VII dont forget that the statement was made from an actress and not the director himself.Do you exclude the fact that the Ach-To scene it may be cut of the final film?

 

No, but I rather doubt that it will be.

--- Double Post Merged, Mar 8, 2016, Original Post Date: Mar 8, 2016 ---

"TFA is too much of a rehash. Why can't they they something new, bring some different ideas to the table?"

(cut to this announcement):

"What, they can't do that. The previous films have never done that. That's not true SW."

Ah yes, fandom at it's finest. Talking out of both sides of their mouths and complaining no matter what you try to do.

 

I don't think it will and I personally would rather there be a a some time in between. The crawl wouldn't have much to say would it?

 

The crawl will still be three paragraphs but it's looking like what you think is happening based on some interviews if you read them between the lines but be optimistic (!) because the end result could make probably be not this case .

 

I think it will start right after, but maybe skip ahead to training or something. I think it will start off not exactly where Luke and Rey meet but in Kylos ship going to see Snoke for his training. Then after that scene it could cut to Luke and Rey. I really want to hear Lukes first words to Rey, but I doubt they'd reveal her heritage that quick in the movie.

The opening crawl could just be a reminder of what happened in episode vii, like they do on tv shows like "last weeks episode of ___", and maybe a few other small details like what the resistance or First Order is planning or something. It shouldn't be extremely hard.

 

I feel that JJ and LK really pigeonholed RJ with that ending in TFA, by inserting that majestic encounter left in limbo at the expense of what would follow in the tradition of the sequels.

If VIII picks up right where VII left off then out goes the crawl (redundant) as well as the pan through stars (hmm, maybe).

I've been struggling with this and have concluded that either:

A). Episode VIII will ignore the last scene in TFA and start off months or years after the Rey-Luke encounter or somewhere else in the galaxy, which will give RJ a clean slate (although will disappoint some fans no doubt).

OR

B). Episode VIII will indeed try to pick up where TFA left off and RJ will have to pull off a Harry Houdini. In this case what could possibly be written in the opening crawl that is new or unknown information. Do you begin the film with a totally untraditional opening (blasphemy IMO)? How do you do it? I've been struggling with this and honestly I've come up empty with the content of the opening crawl. I'll leave that up to the creative writers.

However, for the opening scene I could envision the traditional pan through the stars and slowly comes to focus.......a bluish nebula in the corner of the screen. Several shooting stars go by and a slight metallic "ship" comes into translucent focus albeit hard to discern. The camera zoom out slowly and we see the magnitude on the bluish nebula. The "ship's" reflection looks familiar. The camera zooms out a little more and we realize that the bluish nebula is actually Rey's iris and the "ship" is the reflection in her pupil of the lightsaber in her hand as she extends it towards Luke. Zoom out completely and pick up from where it was left off.

Crazy?

 

If they start off months/years after TFA then they'd have more of an opportunity to make extra cash by having stories written about that time sort of like between the decade span of TPM and AOTc
.

 

The point is that from the moment Rey left the Resistance to the moment she found Luke, definitely days have passed. It's a thing that many people overlook when it comes to lightspeed; it's a galaxy they're traveling in and even the light may take days or even weeks to travel in a galaxy (because a galaxy is THAT big). Especially if we take into consideration that Luke's location was remote.

An opening crawl can easily say that while Rey is speeding to Luke in the Millennium Falcon, the FO is being reorganized to strike back (lol) and they're heading towards their location, blah blah...

 

That's the only reason I'm surprised they won't have years pass between 7 and 8. I figured sooner or later they'd buck tradition by having a first scene not in space. But I'd thought between movies, they'd allow years or the very least months to pass in order to put new EU material in between.

--- Double Post Merged, Jun 7, 2016, Original Post Date: Jun 7, 2016 ---

I gotcha. So the first scene would be a space scene of the FO, before we zip back to Rey and Luke onscreen. Basically showing what the villains are doing during TFA's epilogue.

 

I'd say that, if they don't start right after TFA ends, about a day or a week up to will have happened.

 

I'm sure others have mentioned this (maybe even myself), but this is what makes the most sense to me: Lucasfilm logo, then a cold open of Luke and Rey meeting. After the scene, fade to black. "A Long Time Ago..." and Opening Crawl. That way, they can both have the opening right where TFA left off and still have time pass after the crawl.

 

That doesn't sound like something that makes sense when it comes to the core narrative although the shock would be what would make it work...reminds me of
yesterday's GoT episode..

 

A complete guess, but here's my suggestion: SW8 will open as per tradition with the SW logo and a crawl. The crawl will sum up TFA very quickly ("Starkiller base destroyed") but will add a new factor that we didn't know about in TFA ("Unknown to the Resistance, Snoke is being a real Scum behind the scenes..."). This will be followed by a starscape opening shot which segues into Kylo's shuttle or another First Order ship(s) descending upon the planet of 'achoo' (bless you!). Wipe to the surface of Ahch-To where Rey & Luke meet up, followed immediately by a confrontation with Kylo and his cronies landing smack in the middle of everything. From there on in its all gonna be faster and more intense

...or something along those lines

(Um... why did the internet sensure the word d-o-u-c-h-e into "scum"?)

 

The term "right after" is subjective here. Is it a week? Is it seamless? I think the time between ANH and TESB could be a month. Between TESB and ROTJ a week. To start with the last scene of TFA would be out of formula, maybe that'll be some of what makes it "weird". I kinda doubt it though, I don't think they disturb the formula that much.

 

nearly every part of me thinks that 3 months or so will have passed. lots of reasons for that:-

• Kylo Ren needs to be healed. that boy must have been in seriously bad shape after TFA.
• Time for Rey to train with Luke
• The actors themselves age.. keep making a new film every 2 years and continue it after the last chronologically and it will cause problems eventually.
• it's the way every star wars film has been thus far.

only really have one reason for it to carry straight on:-

• The end of TFA set it up to carry straight on. the only reason we're even asking the question is because we were left with a cliffhanger.. of sorts.

if it is to carry straight on.. then i would take it back a step and show the falcon flying in and Rey walking up the hill to find Luke.

So.. at the end of the crawl i would pan down to see Ahch-To, and the falcon would come past on it's way there. Basically seeing what we saw at the end of TFA but from the third person. Rey walks up to find Luke and we get to hear them have a good ol chat about everything... weather, latest pod racing results, evil family members intent on killing them and blowing up planets... the usual stuff.

whatever they talk about.. Luke agrees to train her, then we will probably cut away to find out what happened to Kylo.