Star Wars: The Force Awakens Pitch Meeting

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**Star Wars: The Force Awakens Pitch Meeting** is the fourth episode of the Pitch Meeting series on Screen Rant. It's the first time a Star Wars movie was the focus of a Pitch Meeting episode.

## Description

Ever wonder how some of the big decisions for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens were made? Wonder no more with this look inside the pitch meeting for the movie!

## Transcript

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Pitch Meeting/Transcript

## Cast

* Studio Executive Guy - Ryan George
* Screenwriter Guy - Ryan George

## Quotes

* "Poe is this awesome resistance pilot and also an opportunity for us to pull a Dumbledore, if we want" - Screenwriter Guy
* "No, it's more of a character just upwards line" - Screenwriter Guy
* "Imagine if a salad bowl fell upside down on a soccer ball and for some reason you wanna hug it" - Screenwriter Guy, referring to BB-8

## Notices

* Screenwriter Guy is wearing a stormtrooper t-shirt

## Trivia

* This is the first Pitch Meeting for a Star Wars movie
* This is the third Pitch Meeting in a row to mention cameos in movies.

**Producer Guy:** You said you had a new *Star Wars* script to pitch me?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yes sir, and I know you bought Lucasfilm for four billion dollars so there's a lot riding on this.

**Producer Guy:** Yeah, we really have to find a way to capture the essence of the original trilogy, I mean I know that's gonna be tough.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Actually super easy, barely an inconvenience.

**Producer Guy:** Really?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah well I figure we can just redo some of the stuff from *A New Hope*.

**Producer Guy:** Redo stuff? Can- Can we get away with that?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, well not like a lotta stuff, maybe just have like a Force-sensitive lead character from a desert planet that dreams of a better life, some incredibly important information stored in a lovable droid, a powerful bad guy with a mask and a red lightsaber and a bad temper, a cantina full of questionable characters and strange music, the main female character getting captured and brought into a giant star base that can destroy planets followed by a rescue mission to get her out, and then if there's time a bunch of ships that get sent on trench runs to hit a weak point on the base and blow it up, the lightsaber death of an old mentor figure witnessed by the lead character, just a couple of things like that.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, people won't be mad about us copying minor stuff like that, right?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, I think if we call it "fanservice" we'll be good.

**Producer Guy:** That's a good point. So, tell me about the new characters.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh this is gonna blow your mind, one of the main characters is named Finn and he's a stormtrooper.

**Producer Guy:** But… stormtroopers are evil.

**Screenwriter Guy:** That's what's amazing about this! Finn realizes that killing innocent people is bad and he doesn't wanna do it.

**Producer Guy:** That's really good, that's gonna humanize stormtroopers!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Exactly, they used to be these disposable things in *Star Wars* and now it's like "These are people".

**Producer Guy:** These are real people with real emotions and feelings!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right, and stormtroopers didn't choose this life, like they were put into this at birth.

**Producer Guy:** It really makes you see stormtroopers in a new light. So how does Finn escape?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, well he kills a *bunch* of stormtroopers and gets away.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, cool.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, he and Poe have like a little stormtrooper murder rampage.

**Producer Guy:** Poe?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh yeah, Poe is this awesome Resistance pilot and also an opportunity for us to pull a Dumbledore if we want.

**Producer Guy:** Pull a Dumbledore?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, that's when you wait a couple of years to reveal a character's sexual orientation.

**Producer Guy:** Ohhh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, there's kind of maybe a thing between him and Finn, we- we hint at it.

**Producer Guy:** Interesting.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And then there's Raymond.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, who's he?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, *she* is the big star of this movie.

**Producer Guy:** And her name is "Raymond"?

**Screenwriter Guy:** "Raymond", yeah.

**Producer Guy:** *[not on board]* Ehhh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** You don't like it?

**Producer Guy:** No, I'm not crazy about it.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Okay. Uh. I ran that by everybody in the office, but-

**Producer Guy:** And everybody loves "Raymond"?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Everybody loves "Raymond".

**Producer Guy:** *[still unsure]* Okayyy.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Look, tell you what, I'll shorten it to "Ray".

**Producer Guy:** Yeah, that's better, and maybe change the "A" to an "E".

**Screenwriter Guy:** Sure.

**Producer Guy:** Thanks, that- that feels better.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So anyway, *Rey* is the new hero of the franchise.

**Producer Guy:** I'm listening.

**Screenwriter Guy:** When we meet her she's like super resourceful and has all these skills.

**Producer Guy:** And she's gonna lose everything and have to go through big changes?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, she's just gonna kinda realize that she has other skills too.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, so instead of having a character *arc*…

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, it's more of a character just, upwards line.

**Producer Guy:** Very interesting, and what's her backstory?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, we're barely gonna talk about it so everybody can come up with theories.

**Producer Guy:** Smart.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And then there's Kylo Ren. He's the son of Han Solo and Princess Leia and he's evil.

**Producer Guy:** Really? What's his deal?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well he wants to be just like his Grandpa Vader and he has these really intense temper tantrums.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, you know what, I can picture him already.

**Screenwriter Guy:** You have some ideas for casting?

**Producer Guy:** Yeah, so you know that show *Girls*?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah yeah, that show that's all about women and real takes on their stories and their lives.

**Producer Guy:** Exactly, so I'm thinking of the *guy* from that show.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, so the big breakout star from *Girls* can be the guy from *Girls*.

**Producer Guy:** Adam Driver. He'd be perfect.

**Screenwriter Guy:** I'm all for it.

**Producer Guy:** Now tell me about the story, what actually happens in the movie?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right, so everybody's trying to find Luke Skywalker, 'cause he's the only Jedi left.

**Producer Guy:** He's… the *last Jedi*?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah.

**Producer Guy:** I like the sound of that, remind me of that later.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah. Sure.

**Producer Guy:** Thanks.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So anyway, there's an important part of this map that probably leads to him that's being kept inside this little droid called BB-8.

**Producer Guy:** What's he look like?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Imagine if a salad bowl fell upside down on a soccer ball and for some reason you wanted to hug it.

**Producer Guy:** That's gonna sell a lot of toys.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, for sure. So BB-8 ends up alone on this planet called Jakku.

**Producer Guy:** Jakku?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Basically Tatooine.

**Producer Guy:** Oh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah and then there's kind of a string of coincidences and that leads us to the end of the movie.

**Producer Guy:** Coincidences?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, yeah, a lot.

**Producer Guy:** Like what?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well, BB-8 happens to stumble upon Rey who happens to be Force-sensitive, and Finn happens to have his little spiritual awakening when they capture BB-8's owner Poe, so he helps him escape 'cause he needs a pilot, and then they happen to get separated during a crash on Jakku and then Finn happens to put on his jacket so BB-8 can happen to point him out, and then they escape in a ship that happens to be the Millennium Falcon, and Rey happens to be a world-class pilot, and then almost immediately they happen to get picked up by its owner Han Solo, who also happens to be the father of the big bad guy and happens to bring them to see someone who happens to have Luke Skywalker's lightsaber, which happens to have a huge connection with Rey because she happens to have Force powers, so when she gets captured by Kylo Ren she happens to realize she has powers that help her escape, and then the Resistance blows up the big bad guy base because it happens to have a big weak spot that they happen to know about because Finn used to be a janitor there.

**Producer Guy:** And Rey doesn't kill Kylo Ren or vice versa?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, the ground happens to open up between them and they can't finish fighting.

**Producer Guy:** *[concerned]* Doesn't that all feel a little too convenient?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, but I think we can chalk it up to like, the will of the Force or whatever.

**Producer Guy:** *[unsatisfied]* Hmm. Okay.

**Screenwriter Guy:** You don't think people'll buy it?

**Producer Guy:** Well maybe just to be safe we can distract people with random cameos.

**Screenwriter Guy:** That could work. Who would you get?

**Producer Guy:** Uh, just off the top of my head, maybe-

*[cut to headline: **Daniel Craig's Star Wars: The Force Awakens Cameo Revealed**]*