I’ve been working on an outline for a personal rewrite of VII pretty much since the movie came out, and I’m trying to decide which of the rejected production ideas would be worth integrating into my story. I figured I should make a list of them here to see which ideas are generally favored by this audience and which aren’t. I’ll just post 10 for now and then post more later. Thank you in advance for the feedback! And feel free to bring any other rejected concepts that I may have missed that you feel could be worth taking into consideration.
1.Jakku as a water world instead of a desert world:
http://images-cdn.moviepilot.com/images/c_scale,h_679,w_1191/t_mp_quality/f6ohjyoefhv4l7ikpgi5/the-force-awakens-concept-art-reveals-a-very-different-star-wars-story-the-star-destro-833231.jpg
2.Lead hero finds McGuffin while exploring underwater:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSNAhUhLjsVJUYasaw0e2dmHgMt9t_18NJusCZO0uiQUKTxbM25Eg
3.The base of the villains as a fire-and-ice world:
http://cdn1-www.comingsoon.net/assets/uploads/2016/03/StarWars2.jpg
4.Vader’s helmet as the McGuffin and Luke being brought into the story earlier:
http://oneperfectshotdb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/sw131.jpg
5.Primitive lightsaber:
http://a1.files.freshnessmag.com/image/upload/c_fit,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,q_80,w_620/MTM3NDYzNjQwOTQ1NTM0Mzgx.jpg
6.Hitchhiking with pirates:
http://i0.wp.com/bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/ZZ2E82364A.jpg
7.Main villain as a cyborg (deformed clone of Vader maybe? or artificial offspring?):
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/04/db/45/04db45d0181efac4145ba713b0aaaf57.jpg
8.New heroes discovering Han Solo washed up in a “crime city”:
http://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Exotic-001.jpg
9.Giant drill-thingy for the villains (instead of Starkiller Base):
http://a3.files.freshnessmag.com/image/upload/c_fit,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,q_80,w_620/MTM3NDYzNjQwNjg2MjczOTY2.jpg
10.Underwater rescue mission for the Falcon:
http://www.iamag.co/features/itsart/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Star-WArs-7-The-Force-Awakens-new-Concept-Art-8.jpg
