Warning: There are spoilers ahead!
If you've seen "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" you're probably aware some of the best sequences from the trailers didn't make it into the final film.
One of those scenes is this one, which shows the pirate alien Maz Kanata handing off Anakin/Luke Skywalker's lightsaber to General Leia Organa.
It was seen in the second official teaser for the movie in which a voice-over from Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) tells viewers the force is strong in his family. He has it. His sister has it (cue above image), and some other unmentioned figure (most likely Rey) has it, too.
The above scene was supposed to occur shortly after the First Order attack on Maz Kanata's palace. Maz was supposed to head back to the Resistance base with Han, Chewie, and Finn and hand over the famed lightsaber to its owner's sister.
Why didn't it make it into the final cut?
Director J.J. Abrams just didn't think it was necessary.
That was a scene actually filmed, but we took out," Abrams told Entertainment Weekly after a Writers Guild of America screening and Q&A for the film. "At one point, Maz used to continue along with the characters back to the Resistance base, but we realized that she really had nothing to do there of value, except to have her sitting around."
"Lupita did film scenes on set for that sequence, but it felt like going right just to go left, and it was unnecessary. So we ended up leaving those things out," he continued.
When the scene was included in the April trailer, Abrams said it was still in the movie.
"The moment was nice and the people who cut the trailer didn’t give a s–-," he joked to EW.
You can check out the 30 minute Q&A with Abrams and "The Force Awakens" screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan below.
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