If Han's death is indeed true that's a pretty major spoiler to let leak. For that reason I almost don't believe it's true and is something being done by Abrams to throw fanboys off.

Han tried to commit suicide by setting off a bomb to kill the top witch. But he's stopped. Something like that could work in the movie.

Han has to die, he needs to go out like a god damned fucking hero... something epic, like crashing the Millenium Falcon into a Star Destroyer to allow others to escape. Something like the beginning of Star Trek 2009. He can't go out like a punk bitch.

I agree. Han deserves an honorable death. If that spoiler is true depending how it was handled that could be the case, but I really think that spoiler is false. Like I mentioned before a major spoiler like that being allowed to leak just doesn't seem likely and seems more like it was planted to get fanboys talking.

So if Han goes, who will pilot the Falcon? Rey? Poe? Captain Chewie?

Hopefully we'll see Lando flying it in Episode VIII...

It SHOULD go to one of Solo's kids, but these latest rumors seem to indicate he might not have any -- at least among the current crop of new characters. I hope that isn't the case. It would be foolish not to have at least one Solo child to carry on the family legacy after Han dies. I can't imagine Disney wants to end the Skywalker bloodline with Luke and Leia. I guess it's possible Kylo Ren is his son and they do a whole Vader-style redemption story over the next two film. Ugh...

A lightsaber falls onto a planet after the opening crawl. Thankfully, no severed hand is attached to it. A farmer named Naka finds it and accidently starts a small fire after igniting it. He takes the weapon to a character codenamed "The Vicar", who then contacts the Alliance to send someone to retrieve it. Poe Dameron is sent on the mission, but stormtroopers show up before he can get away. He hides the saber inside BB-8 and sends it off (just like Leia did with the Death Star plans) where it will eventually be discovered by scrappy mechanic Rey. Kylo Ren is commanding the stormtroopers and orders them to raze a village to the ground. Finn is one of these troopers and refuses to comply with orders. He ends up thrown in the brig of a Star Destroyer with Poe, who was captured during the raid. The two work together and highjack a TIE fighter, which crash lands back on the planet.

Kylo Ren was rumored to be an artifact collector. It could have been lost from his ship and he goes down to the planet to retrieve it. It was also rumored this lightsaber held a crystal that opened an ancient Sith tomb -- so there's a chance it's not Luke's after all (though most reports indicate it is a blue one).

only in the last scene of the movie and it doesn't sound like he has any lines. So we're supposed to believe Hamill had to lose a ton of weight and grow a hobo beard just for that? I'm not buying it. Anyway:

http://makingstarwars.net/2015/02/st...s-involvement/

Interesting that does imply Rey inherits the Falcon (and Chewie).

There was also a rumor that Kylo made the cross guard saber himself, which is why the blade looks a tad unstable in the trailer: he didn't know how to put one together properly.