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So someone over at AP who managed to see the premiere of the movie posted the latter half of that plot summary that BDK posted earlier. Therefore, credit goes to sandman from AP for this juicy info:

Spoiler for 2nd half of plot summary:

Aokiji meets straw hat pirates, and tells them about the background
of Z and what the End Point is. According to Aokiji, Z plans to end
the great pirate era by blasting the three End Points (huge magma reservoir）
in New World.

The existence of End Points is known to people as fake.
Only high-ranking officials of World Government and Marine
know it is true.

Garp tells Coby and Helmeppo about Z.

Z's real name is Admiral "Black Arm" Zephr. His wife and child
were killed by a pirate. This made him add to hatred to pirates.
Afterward, very strong pirate (devil fruit user) cut his arm off
and annihilated his military units except Ein and Bins.

When the pirate joined Shichibukai, Z was displeased at Government and
left Marine. Coby trembles at the power of the pirate who cut off arm of
admiral.

Luffy confronts Z in the desert of the island, but he is
neutralized by a bullet of sea stone.

Z picks the straw hat up and proposes to destoroy the straw hat
and great pirate era. Luffy naturally gets angry, but he is
knocked out by the strong attack such as smasher tornado.
Z destroys the End Point of this island.

Aokiji meets the straw hat pirates and gives them the eternal
pose of the Period Island (last island).

The straw hat pirates venture into the Period island changing
their costumes. Franky backs up. Luffy runs towrads Z in a bee-line.
Zoro and Sanji begin to fight against Ein and Binz.

Luffy arrives at Z. Final battle begins. Luffy succeeds to destroy
smasher by indenting sea stone.(smasher consists of sea stone). Z's
sunglasses are falling from his face. Z begins to show a vivid face.

Aokiji secretly watches the fight and says "Zephr-sensei is coming
back..."

A fierce fight continues, but finally Z tumbles down running out of
physical strength because of his age.

Luffy barely wins the fight, but Kizaru and about six vice-admirals,
who intend to exterminate Luffy and Z, conftont them.
Z volunteeers to prevent the enemies. Aokiji lets gigantic ice block
appear between Z and Luffy.

Z thanks to Aokiji "Kuzan...you makes my place to die" and rushes
toward the Marines.

Kizaru says "Farewell, Zephr-sensei", and mercilessly shoots Yasakani
no Magatama to Z. Z rushes to Kizaru shouting "Borsalinooooo!!".
Vice-admiral Doberman is crying quietly. Z suffers the damage of
Yasaakani no Magatama, but he keeps his feet.

"I'll give you the last lesson!!"

Straw hat pirates leave the island showing mixed feelings.

Aokiji encourages Ein and Bins who are crying in front of the grave of Z.

【Last scene】 The name of Z derives from the "hero" that Z played in his
childhood.

I'm sorry for my poor English.

My thoughts:

Spoiler:

Damn, Kizaru and a team of SIX VAs finished off Z!? Holy s***! And yeah, Z's loss to Luffy was handled a LOT better than Shiki's, IMO (his age got the better of him, which was also sorta kinda what contributed to Whitebeard's death). Speaking of Whitebeard, it seems that Z died in a similar fashion. This is a really awesome story, indeed. Too bad it's movie exclusive, though. But I'm still thinking that it will have some loose connections with the manga in some way, just like Strong World....

Edit: Other misc. info (again, courtesy of sandman from AP):

Spoiler:

-So the way Ein's modo modo power works is that whoever she touches ages back 12 years. Furthermore, if she ages her opponents past their birth age, they get erased from the world. Apparently, she user her ability on Nami, Chopper, Robin and Brooke (though apparently, Brooke still looks the same, lol). And here, have a gif of Nami being turned into a kid (credit goes to redon from AP for this one):

Spoiler:

-Yes, Z CAN use haki. It was confirmed that both he and Luffy used CoA haki during their battles.

-The monster trio's finishers are Meteor Strike for Sanji (a kick attack similar to his earlier Concasse move), some new sword technique from Zoro where he forms a tiger-shaped aura (sandman said he couldn't hear the attack's name well), and just a regular, nameless punch from Luffy.

-As long as I'm talking about battles here, remember that white Kuma PX model mentioned earlier? Apparently, Z had a bunch of them at his side, but Franky took them out by himself with a Radical Beam in his General Franky mode.


-As far as Sengoku goes, we only see him discussing Z with Garp. For those curious about Akainu, he IS shown, BUT ONLY IN SILHOUETTE FORM. Guess Oda doesn't want to give away EVERYTHING so soon!


-Here's something else interesting: The last conversation between Aokiji and Z before the final battle:

I forgot to insert this article before Luffy confronted Z in the desert.Sorry.

Aokiji sings "Sea knows the beginning of the world.
Sea knows the ending of the world."

Aokiji stands face to face with Z. Aokiji says, "I hated this song..
I didn't have the feeling for requiem in my body."

At the same time, he throw and hand a liquor bottle to Z. "You liked
this brand of liquor, sensei.. I was admiring a cool marine like you"

Z says,"Are you going to give an old man a scolding?
Kuzan, I don't wanna kill you. Leave at once."

Aokiji says, "Me too..." and exercise the hie-hie skill
on his right arm. Right before the battle begins, Aokiji
disarms himself. Aokiji passes by Z. He decides to
watch the justice of Z to the end.

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When Z had his arm cut off, the appearances of Ein made little
difference from now she is. Considering that Ein's modo-modo
skill can't exercise for herself, the event seemed to happen 10 years ago or so.