STAR WARS
Episode VII: Escape from Peril
An Original Screenplay
By
Jeremy Lazar
And
GenMadine

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EXT. HYPERSPACE

The Jaren?s Dream continues through hyperspace

INT. JAREN?S DREAM - LOUNGE

Ben and Kane are sitting across from one another playing holochess, with Artoo looking on. Ben?s monster defeats Kane?s. Artoo laughs and Kane scowls at him.

BEN
You?ve never played this bad before.

KANE
Yeah, well I?m a little distracted.

He glares at Ben.

KANE (con?d)
You should be too.

BEN
There?s nothing we?

Suddenly the engines strain and the ship shudders, before going back to normal. Ben and Kane look at each other.

KANE
The hyperdrive.

BEN
We?ve changed course.

The boys jump up and run to the cockpit.

INT. JAREN?S DREAM - COCKPIT

As the boys rush into the cockpit they startle the green, reptilian creature at the controls.

BEN
Hey!

The creature, MINCH, jumps up, gripping the ceiling bulkheads. He?s just over three feet tall, with a small body and long limbs. He has prickly skin, and is dressed in a ragged mechanic?s jumpsuit with many pockets. When he speaks it?s a mixture of English and his own tongue.

MINCH
[Stay away!] Back [horrible] boys! [This is my ship! You must get off!]

Ben steps in front of Kane.

BEN
I don?t know who you are, but this is our ship.

MINCH
[It?s mine now.] Sorry.

Kane ignites his lightsaber.

KANE
I suggest you surrender to us.

Ben gets a sudden realization and darts towards the control panel, but Minch beats him to it and takes them out of hyperspace.

MINCH
Rotten Jedi boys!

EXT. SPACE ABOVE TOWNOWI

The ship is now back in realspace, heading towards the dark brown and black planet of Townowi.

INT. JAREN?S DREAM - COCKPIT

MINCH
[I need to put it orbit now.] Get away.

Minch struggles with Ben for the controls. Kane pushes him away with the Force. Minch gets up and leaps at Kane, knocking him over. Kane?s lightsaber goes flying and Ben tries to bring it to him, but the spinning blade cuts through the controls.

BEN
Hey!

Kane and Minch stop fighting and look at Ben, then to the sparking control panels.

BEN (con?d)
I don?t think we?re going to be able land this thing.

Outside, the ship hits the atmosphere and begins to buckle.

MINCH
[Fools.] Coalition hates [trespassers!] They?ll shoot [us down for sure.]

Kane looks to Ben.


KANE
Great. A Coalition planet.

BEN
Let?s worry about them if we survive the crash. Head to the middle of the ship.

He nods over to Minch, who?s trying in vain to control the ship.

KANE
Leave him!

BEN
We can?t just let him die. We?re Jedi.

Ben runs up and grabs Minch?s arm. He pulls him out of the cockpit with Kane.

EXT. TOWNOWI - LOW ATMOSPHERE

The ship continues to free fall, breaking through the clouds, past a giant mountain covered in docking pads, over a vast brown rocky plain with large columns of rock, and coming up on an immense black bog, filled with refuse and garbage. The ship smacks into the bog, sending debris flying everywhere, but soon comes to a halt.

INT. JAREN?S DREAM - LOUNGE

Minch, the boys, and Artoo check themselves over. Kane glares at Minch.

KANE
You have a lot of explaining to do.

Kane starts towards Minch, but the ship shudders and drops down.

BEN
Kane, I think we?re starting to sink into the bog.

Once again the ship drops.

MINCH
No outside! [The bog is toxic,] it kill us all.

BEN
Is the MPT working?

KANE
It is if Artoo fixed it like he was supposed to.

Artoo beeps, taken aback.

KANE (con?d)
I don?t care what I did - you were supposed to fix it.

BEN
It doesn?t matter, we have no other way out of here.

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