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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- J.J. Abrams has detailed in the new upcoming Force Awakens director's commentary how fellow filmmaker Ava DuVernay helped out with the film's climatic lightsaber battle. "I showed an early cut to my friend Ava DuVernay, and she had a bunch of great suggestions," Abrams says according to Yahoo on the 3D collector's edition of Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Rey confronts Kylo Ren.
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"One of them was she really wanted to see Daisy, in her attack on Ren, have one really cool moment," he continues and points out how DuVernay's shot suggestion of having Rey landing a powerful blow against Kylo Ren made it into the film.
"It's a little thing, but it really connects you to her intensity."
The shot Abrams describes was added following Harrison Ford's on-set injury which put production on hold for eight weeks.
The upcoming director's commentary will also offer Abrams' thoughts on what Kylo Ren is thinking when he confronts and then kills his father Han Solo. "Snoke is as Han says using him and I think that somewhere Ben knows this. But I think that he can't accept it. Deep down, he has gone too far," he states of the emotional scene.
The 3D collector's edition of The Force Awakens is set to arrive in stores Nov. 15.
