#When does the force awakens take place movie#

In every other case, Star Wars movies jumped forward in leaps of time. Rey has clearer spent time on Ahch-To that was not seen in the film. With Rey handing Luke his lightsaber on Ahch-To. Rian notes on his choice to start the film one second after the end of the previous. All the while, Rey is on the Island with Luke. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Official Novelisationīetween the destruction of Starkiller Base, the First Order re-grouping somewhere to gather whatever forces they have left, and the construction or the deployment of the Dreadnought, the finding of the Resistance base on D'Qar and getting to D'Qar would've taken some time. Snoke was, however, uninterested in just finding the planet and just wanted the end of the Resistance, suggesting they simply destroy the entire system. While they didn't know what planet they were on at the end of The Force Awakens, they knew the Resistance were in the Ileenium system. The Base they'd just fought to protect against the First Order. The film opens with the bombardment of the First Order on the Resistance base on D'Qar. While Kitkat takes what we see on the screen as one linear timeline we must consider off-screen time, which likely is significantly longer than we might think. However, in the end we only see two sunsets day/night cycles, which matches decently to the other characters’ timelines. She offers him his lightsaber once more, and when he doesn’t take it, flies off on the Millenium Falcon.Ī reason I think this seems so long is that the island has extreme weather patterns-going from sunny to stormy multiple times per day. They fight and he tells her third version of the story. She goes back to the hut she’s been staying in and talks to Kylo and touches him Luke shows up and blows up the hut. Rey goes to the dark place and has a vision (sort of). Night 2: Kylo tells Rey the second version of the story. She asks Luke about Kylo and he tells her the first version of the “How Kylo destroyed the temple…” story. Rey trains with her staff and a lightsaber, and talks to Kylo a couple of more times throughout the day. Rey and Chewie try to contact the Resistance but can’t. Luke doesn't want to train her after that. Trains at the top of the mountain, senses the dark place for the first time. Wakes Rey up and tells her to meet him at dawn for a first lesson.ĭay 2: Rey wakes up for training, sees Kylo for the first time. Luke watches R2-D2’s projection of Leia from the first Star Wars and decides to train Rey.

Visits the tree with the Jedi texts as sunset is approaching. From what we can see, Rey’s time on the island lasts two days and two nights.ĭay 1: Tries to give Luke the lightsaber, fails, follows him around.

#When does the force awakens take place movie#

I rewatched the movie paying special attention to Rey’s timeline on the island Your intuition sounds correct about the other plot.