Star Wars: The Chosen One (Episode X) (Fan Film)
SleepingWooloo for Poe Dameron
Please submit your auditions here: https://tlp-gaming.com/casting-call-poe/
Poe has been appointed by the late Leia Organa Solo as the new General of the Resistance. The weight of it was felt throughout all the ranks. At the Battle of Exegol, he thought he had failed in the biggest challenge of his life, faced without his beloved mentor. But the Citizens of the galaxy came to the rescue to prove that Leia’s faith in the people was not misplaced. With his faith restored, he knows he can depend on his best friends Finn and Rey to help him navigate the next steps the Resistance would need to take.
Flying over to the temporary Resistance base on Crait to celebrate with the Citizen’s Fleet and his own people, Poe sees that old familiar Y-Wing, the Comeuppance, land carrying a big part of his past, Zorii. His joy at seeing her ship and hearing her voice at Exegol could not be overstated. He had thought that she perished with the rest of Kijimi, but thankfully she and a few members of his old gang, the Spice Runners of Kijimi, had survived. Having to seek out Babu Frik to help them decipher the locked-away riddle in C-3PO’s memory banks had forced him to unbury feelings for the spicy, no pun intended, Zorii that had captured his heart in a big way many years ago.
Now, he will not only be overwhelmed by the taxing needs of galactic citizens that had been so grievously displaced from their homes, but he will also have to unpack the many layers of the hardened Zorii that he meets now. Zorii herself had also been forced to stuff down her own feelings for the handsome pilot that caused her to kill her own mother, leaving her to lead the gang that had been headed by Zeva Bliss for decades. Will Poe be able to handle the responsibilities that come as General of the only organization left for citizens to turn to, the Resistance? Will he be able to coax the old Zorii he knows her to really be? How will he tackle the return of a redeemed Ben Solo? We’ll find out in Star Wars: The Chosen One (Episode X).
INT. CRAIT, REY’S RESISTANCE TENT – EARLY MORNING
REY’s tent is meticulously organized. The single cot is made. There are texts sprawled out on a desk in the corner that she had been studying before leaving for Pasaana just a week prior. REY is nervous and fidgeting with her fingers, wringing at them. REY suddenly sits on her cot, gripping the sides with her hands. She tries to start to tell them.
REY
(nervously)
I… uhhh… I don’t…REY trails off but regroups herself. FINN and POE are standing by the door looking down at her. POE crosses his arms. FINN puts his hands at his waist. FINN picks up on something and thought it had to do with her dying back on Exegol, so he tries to help her spit it out. A long beat passes.
FINN
Exegol. You died. So, how are you alive?REY looks to FINN and can’t help but blurt it out.
REY
Ben Solo…REY’s voice starts to trail off and before she can speak her next words, POE interjects.
POE DAMERON
(questioning)
You mean Kylo Ren?REY
No. Ben Solo.POE DAMERON
(statement, annoyed)
You mean Kylo Ren.FINN moves towards REY, sitting next to her. He has a million questions forming in his mind and REY can sense it.
POE DAMERON
(indignant)
He doesn’t deserve that name, Rey.FINN shoots POE a sharp look before looking back to REY.
FINN
(calmly)
Is he dead, Rey?POE DAMERON
(scoffs)
One can only hope.REY
(infuriated, to Poe)
No, he’s with me.REY shoots up from her seated position on the cot to face POE directly. FINN shoots up right behind her.
FINN
Let’s all calm down.POE DAMERON
(disbelief, mouth drops)
Well, then I expect you to turn him into our
custody so he can face a tribunal as a war criminal.REY
Absolutely not!POE DAMERON
So what you’re saying is you are now harboring a fugitive?REY hitches her breath and before she could speak, FINN steps in.
FINN
(shouting)
Guys! Guys! No one has more reason to hate this
guy than I do, and I have the scar across my back
to prove it. But…POE DAMERON
(interjects, shouting)
EXACTLY!FINN
But, I trust Rey enough to at least hear her out first.
(beat)
Poe?POE DAMERON
Not on this, I won’t.POE is fuming. He looks to FINN with a locked jaw and then smacks his teeth, turning on his heel, and storms out of the tent. REY feels dejected. She sits back down on the cot angrily, hurt. FINN looks at her. Sits down on the dirt floor of the tent, across from REY, he crosses his legs.
REY shakes her head and tears well up in her eyes. She looks to FINN.
FINN
(compassion)
Tell me everything, Rey.REY looks FINN and takes a deep breath. She tells FINN the entire story of Ben Solo and how she brought him back to the Light side.
Dear sleepingwooloo, We want to thank you for your interest in our film project. We have reviewed your submitted audition and have decided to go with another candidate for the role in question. We value the effort you took and the courage you showed in submitting for us and look forward to seeing more from you for any of our upcoming projects. Please review our website every so often to see what new and interesting filmmaking projects we may post in the future. All the best, Cathryn Newsom, Production Assistant, The Last Prophecy Gaming, Inc. https://www.tlp-gaming.com