Before I begin I'd like to point out a few things. I'm mostly a reddit lurker so I don't particularily care about karma, thats why I made a this throwaway account specifically for this thread. Secondly, I can not provide picture proof as unsurprisingly the script is littered with watermarks. Third, these are primarily major plot points and key differences from the movie we all saw. Whether you believe it or not is up to you, they aren't far-fetched to me so I happen to believe it, some are even more logical (to me at least). And lastly, I am posting this with permission from a private forum I am a member of. A well known/respected individual of the forum got his hands on this draft and shared major points with our forum, along with the key differences. The reason he did this is because to quote him "there's no way I can upload/scan this thing with so many source-revealing watermarks so while I've read through the entire thing, I'm just going to provide what I consider juicy tidbits. If there is enough interest I may manually type up more details, we'll just have to see."

So basically what follows is me copy-pasting what he wrote up. Please don't bother asking for the forum, its 'private' for a reason. I won't try to convince anyone that its real or not, the guys pretty trustworthy but it's not like I can prove that either haha. Just enjoy the read, I did.

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I'm going to outline a lot of the major plot points that were obviously changed in the movie. The characters are also handled differently to some degree. I'll do my best to keep out any of my own bias.

Rey - Reys character in the draft is a lot more 'on edge'. Having spent her life on Jakku all by her lonesome she leans much more towards being antisocial, untrusting and just generally 'rougher'. Her character is described as having numerous scratches, cuts and general dirt on her face and skin. Its made a bit more clear that she was forced to hone some 'street-wise' combat skills to survive to this point. Kind of like a montage of her school of hard knocks (sorry i had to!). We would've seen flashes of her being bullied, abused and just generally treated poorly. She remains the same scavenger we meet but much more mechanicy if you get me. This personality tweaks a lot of dialogue and interactions throughout the movie.

Finn - Same beginning scene for the most part, but the trooper that dies happens where he gets knocked back into Finn causing the dead trooper to lie on finn, same blood to helmet thing. Instead of Finn just freezing up while standing in the movie, hes stuck under the trooper for a bit, i think kind of stuck in that same line of thought. Before he gets up the civies are already wiped out. Finns character is also a lot edgier in this version. Most of the comic one liners are surprisingly missing. Though one of my favorite parts - the droid thumbs up, is still there. Finn seems a lot more withdrawn, even could say more cowardly in this version, this will probably be clarified as I outline the major points.

Kylo Ren - Some fairly major differences for Kylos arc. He doesn't even remove his mask until the confrontation with Han! I think even less is revealed in this version then the movie. He's closer to a Darth Maul/Vader entity (in TPM/ANH).

Poe - Not much is changed here besides some different events.

BB8- still cool.

Whew, here we go.

Rey is seen doing the scavenging of the destroyer and stuff, grabbing the rations, etc. One major difference is when she puts on the rebel helmet she is watching some kind of 'holo-recorder' it says. It seems to be replaying the events of the OT roughly in tiny hologram form. The script also lingers long on her staring into the sky for a while (I take it as dreaming of the stars). Another major difference is as night falls, we would have seen her sneak onto the millenium falcon. She seems comfortable inside, moving around familiarily while 'repairing' parts of the falcon. She also sits in the cockpit for a while, kind of pretending she is flying it through space, I think.

It then cuts to Finn on the First Order base. He rips off his helmet and vomits before hurriedly cleaning it up before Phasma shows up, scene plays out about the same. The Kylo/Poe scene is roughly the same as well. Here is where Finn's personality difference is more apparent already. He makes it clear to Poe that he wants to escape the first order and needs a pilot to do it, he has no interest in helping poe or the resistance. While thats roughly what happened in the movie, he's a lot more stern in tone and on edge. The scene plays out past that the same except one possibly key difference, Poe screams at Finn when Finn refuses to kill his fellow stormtroopers in the hangar. He makes sure to aim the blasters of the fighter just in front of them. Poe of course yells at him that they are gonna kill 'us' and its kill or be killed but Finn is adamant until he finnaly destroys the wire holding the Tie down. Again it plays out all the same after this point until Finn meets Rey. Rey is about to sell BB8 (for real unlike the 'thinking about it' moment in the movie) when Finn stops her. Some bickering happens until some guys attack them (roughly the same). Finn takes out one, turns to help Rey but her guys already out cold and the shop owner closes his window. They meet eyes for a moment before troopers already shooting at them. Rey is pretty confused but her life to that point doesn't really make her question too much about more people trying to kill her so she beelines straight for the Falcon. Finn just follows out of instinct while BB8 speeds after Rey as well.

Few lines of dialogue about being able to fly the falcon and rey kind of just ignores Finn, I found it funny to be honest. The falcon lifts up w/ the tarp falling and shakily leaves Jakku. Here's another major difference as almost immediately after they are out of orbit they get picked up by hans vessel (same one in the movie). The details around this are mostly irrelevant in the scheme of things so I'm too lazy to type them up. Here we see a bit more of the Rey in the final movie, she's very much in awe of Han and Chewy, fangirlish even, Finn is in contract deeply fearful and finnicky. Thanks to BB8 he was still able to label himself as part of the resistance and keeps up the charade of course in front of Han, trying to bs his way into not being jettisoned. Han is noticeably more cold to Rey and Finn in this version. He gets REALLY close to throwing them into an escape pod until the gangsters show up again. Scene plays out similarily without Finn getting grabbed, instead him and Rey just hide until they get to a door they can close and wait in for a bit till Han and Chewy find them. They proceed to the falcon like before. The entire tie fighter scene is gone.

They end up heading to Maz's just like the movie pretty much. Lot of the events play out the same, but this time no luke lightsaber. Maz gives Rey a lightsaber but she rejects it, no visions too. Chewie ends up holding onto the lightsaber.. just because I guess. Kylo and gang appear and wreck the place the same roughly and kidnap Rey. One big difference is Finn refuses to leave the basement of Maz's as he keeps to pacifism. It makes a point that he seems to greatly regret this since he finds out Rey gets kidnapped and kind of blames himself.

They head to the resistance base with BB8s help and etc. However Poe is actually the general at the head of the resistance! He of course knows who Han is so he explains a bit what exactly is the resistance. In this version, Leia is a high ranking politican in the new republic. Because of some complicated reasons they don't spend much time on, the new republic can't engage in open warfare against the First Order. So Leia secretly funds the resistance with Poe at its head. Once Han hears this he hints at wanting to talk to Leia if possible and Poe readily obliges. It now spends 5-10 minutes of scenery of the new republic along with Leia in some kind of political forum, similar to the one in the PT. After a while an aid of hers whispers that Poe needs to urgently speak w/ her. She goes to some secret place while excusing herself. She begins the transmission and is of course taken aback greatly when a holographic Han Solo appears infront of her. They stare at each other for a while, various expressions and all. They then talk for a good few minutes with the juiciest dialogue being "Our son has become a monster, just like his grandfather was. It's our responsibility Han." says Leia and Han replys solemnly "I know."

Suddenly the scene switches to the visuals of the starkiller base firing, it's bolts streaking across the sky. It switches back to han briefly as Leias hologram abruptly disappears. Han freaks out for only a few moments before Poe interrupts him. Poe explains what has happened. The starkiller has wiped out the new republic (same way as the movie). Han is kind of frozen in time while Poe quickly switches between mourning to outburts of anger. It's made clear that the resistance KNEW about starkiller, but they had no idea it was going to be operational so soon. They thought they had time. Poe of course blames all this on himself, being the general of the resistance. Han eventually snaps out of his stupor as Poes cursing kind of brings him back to reality. Classic Han of course delivers a killer line "Kid, the only woman I've ever loved and the certainly the only one that put up with me just died. Tell me you guys have a plan for this star whatever." Poe calms down and explains how they've had engineers and scientists working on how to turn the stars energy against the base (while firing). Finn speaks up that he isn't part of the resistance, Poe knew of course but kind of set it aside since he was talking to Han. Poe quickly grasps the situation and kind of smoothes it over so Finn can continue. Finn talks about how he worked on Starkiller and there was an entrance for the upper echleons of the First Order. Of course otheres question him on this, how should a stormtrooper grunt know. He begrudingly admits he was in sanitation and recieves an uproar from most of the people in the room about how ridiculous it is to trust him. Han takes charge and clarifies what other option do they have. So they listen to Finn carefully, as the entrance is something no one would ever find by accident. And the biggest issue is it requires a executive style first order ship, basically one just like Kylos. Not too unsurprisingly Poe speaks up that they do have one in their possession from an officer they captured.

The resistance fighters begrudingly accept the plan, not like they have a choice. Finn volunteers to come along, as he speaks up that Rey is probably at Starkiller and feels responsible for doing nothing earlier. Finn and Poe will pilot the officer ship while the Falcon follows a good distance away, with the specially crafted bomb stowed inside. The rest of the resistance will go full distraction mode on the shield surrounding the planet even though many of them know they may die. Poe gives a heartfelt speech and thanks them, he tries to lead them in a xwing but loyal followers of his persuade him to go with Finn.

They go in the secret entrance, knock out some grunts and mess with some computers to allow the Falcon to make it in, while the rest of the resistance goes full offensive distraction. Finn of course wants to find Rey right away but Han talks him into guiding them, bomb in tow (chewie mad strong of course) to where it needs to be set off (some kind of energy building chamber). The scene switches over to the same one seen in the movie with Rey in the chair and Kylo trying to probe her mind. Same thing happens, but he keeps his mask on. It seems Rey instinctually feels shes able to resist Kylo and eventually a shockwave kind of happens. Think like a force push emanating from Rey. It shatters the restraints and sends Kylo flying into the wall, knocking him out cold. Rey is also knocked out for a few but regains consciousness pretty quick. She rushes over away from the chair as the sound of the door opening startles her. A stormtrooper sprints in, of course directly to kylo who is laying on the floor. Before he notices Rey missing from the chair, she escapes view having sprinted past the trooper almost as he got to the chair. Its pretty much the same after that, her running around, doing her best to avoid anyone.

Finn, Poe, Han and Chewie get to the energy chamber only to meet up with Phasma leading a platoon. Lots of laser fire exchanged while Finn is anxious to find Rey. Rey ends up finding them first and trys to help exchange laser fire as well after some brief reconcilliation and such. Chewie does some major damage with his bowcaster so that they are able to get the bomb where it needs to be. Finn and Phasma face off, Finn clearly resolved not to avoid fighting this time. They both engage in a melee (with those weapons seen in the finn lightsaber vs trooper in the movie). Rey is covering chewie and Han as they in turn are covering Poe who is enabling the device. Suddenly Kylo comes on screen, ignores the Finn/Phasma confrontation and walks directly to where Han is. Rey trys to engage him but she is thrown hard against a wall (a clear revenge act from Kylo). Han walks to meet Kylo, waiving off Chewie from following directly. I forgot to mention that Kylo being their son is actually revealed in the conversation between Han and Leia, not Snoke. A moment of silence is observed before Han gives a dad-like command of taking off his mask. Kylo complies and says the lines roughly the same about being torn apart. Key difference here is as Kylo took off his mask, Han placed his hand on his pistol which is holstered (think the cantina scene in ANH). As Han grips it, Kylo asks if Han will help him. Han says he will do anything and as Han lifts his pistol even slighty, Kylos lightsaber rips through his chest. Almost immediately Chewie roars and fires a shot at Kylo, Kylo isn't able to stop it like Poe's shot in the beginning of the movie, but he changes its trajectory slightly. So it more wings him, but still hits him pretty good. A major detail here is as Han falls, the lightsaber from Maz's rolls out of his coat towards Rey. Finn and Phasmas confronation has Finn on the ropes, barely holding on. Poe interjects in said confrontation after successfully enabling the bomb. The entire structure begins to shake violently. Phasma is forced to temporarily retreat some distance, allowing Poe and Finn to run some distance away. Han, being the stubborn scoundrel we know and love, says some things to Chewie as chewie grabs his body and leaves to the falcon. Han only lasts a few moments however. Kylo beats on his wound similar to the movie before turning his attention to Rey, who has grabbed the lightsaber is is running after Poe and Finn, instincts kicking in and all.

So begins the forest scene and whatnot. Finn and Poe try to engage Kylo and Finn manages to hit him a bit with that same melee weapon but Kylo just uses force powers to toss them aside. Kylo comes face to face with Rey who gives a pretty big defiant look to him. Kylo immediately starts talking smack, he's pretty enraged and filled with emotion, especially with her getting the better of him in the interrogation room. He lets on that she has tapped into the darkside and should come with him for true power, trying to appeal to her survival instincts. His blows are weighty, swinging with little finesse as Rey struggles to repel each blow. This goes on for a bit until the planet becomes unstable. Kylo backs Rey into a tree, ceasing the attack, put points his lightsaber threateningly at her, basically saying 'join me or die'. Suddenly Kylo gets tossed like a ragdoll as our favorite wookie Chewie literally charges onto the scene. The planet begins to split open and the entire gang retreats to the falcon to blast off. The same snoke scene plays out (finish training and all).

Theres a burial type thing for Han (not many details written out) before Rey and Chewie head out to Luke. OH Right. I forgot to mention the Luke stuff plays out just slightly different. When Han dies, it briefly shows Luke grasping at his chest and then shows R2-D2 waking up. Presumably Luke turned him on, lol. Also the island Luke is on in this draft is more ruins like.

Alright, I'm going to sleep, probably be busy with x-mas and stuff so don't bother bothering me for a few days, like I said if interest is strong enough I'll type out more stuff just don't pester me!

Ahem /u/MansBFFTheWookie here again. So there you have it. I'll admit, me sharing this is purely selfish. I want to see more of this draft, so if I can prove people are interested i'll get more, hopefully thanks in advance for your contribution! Also, I look forward (hopefully) to hearing some discussion. Our private forum does not have a lot of members, so it'd be interesting to see more perspectives on what could have been and whatnot.

Also I'd appreciate if you post this anywhere else (you're welcome to) at least mention (or especially link) it was first posted on /r/StarWars