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"I feel the movie that comes out is the movie that should be the intended final product." "I'm not a huge fan of directors' cuts and modifications to a movie," he said. Unlike his predecessor, Abrams isn't interested in rereleases. Star Wars fans shouldn't expect an extended edition of The Force Awakens with such moments folded back into the narrative. It was a scene in the movie I later realized I had put the entire crew through shooting, only to cut it." It definitely wasn't meant to be diversionary. "It felt like the movie was stronger if we skipped over that moment. "It ended up being an unnecessary hot potato," said Abrams.
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Abrams acknowledged that after Maz Kanata's castle is leveled by the First Order, the big-eyed buccaneer originally traveled to the Resistance's base to hand off Luke Skywalker's signature weapon to his sister, Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher). But it's Finn (John Boyega) who takes it from her yellow hand in the movie. In the second trailer, Maz Kanata is seen passing a lightsaber to another woman. Other trailer portions cut from the film include Rey (Daisy Ridley) entering a derelict Star Destroyer on her home planet and an ominous exchange between the spunky scavenger and itty-bitty pirate Maz Kanata (Lupita Nyong'o). "There were a couple of shots that ended up not being used in the film, simply because we were doing our best to make the movie be the best version of itself, which sometimes means losing a moment here or there." "There might be a look or scene in a trailer that identifies as being powerful in that short form, but sometimes that doesn't jibe with what's happening in the long form," said Abrams. However, The Force Awakens doesn't actually feature the moment when the masked baddie ignites his flickering lightsaber hilt. Star Wars fans flipped their Stormtrooper helmets when a pair of beams flared out from the side of Kylo Ren's lightsaber in the first teaser trailer.