Mark Hamill Confirms How the Opening Shot might have Looked in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Early rumours well before The Force Awakens ever saw the light of day never came to fruition, so those reports ended up vanishing.
But now Mark Hamill has confirmed that they were correct, and that the opening shot of the film may looked pretty dark and grim compared to what we first saw after the iconic yellow-text scroll.
"I can tell you now that in the original opening shot of 7, the first thing that came into frame was a hand with a lightsaber, a severed hand that enters the atmosphere, and then the hand and bone burns away and goes sticking into the surface of Jakku, and this alien hand comes in, don’t know if it was Maz but it was an alien hand who takes the lightsaber way, and then the movie proceeds as you see it."
Source: Collider
