When it comes to Star Wars: The Force Awakens revelations, this one is totally plot-changing, so if you thought you knew who is who and how they came to be, think again.
We must warn you that this article has potential MAJOR SPOILERS , but you wouldn’t be reading if you didn’t want to find out. So we will carry on.
The good folks at Making Star Wars have a massive scoop about the Star Wars: The Force Awakens plot and it has to do with parenting. Ever since Disney announced the casting of Daisy Ridley (Rey), John Boyega (Finn), and Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron) and director J.J. Abrams shared this cast photo, speculation about what the origins of the newcomers are began.
Daisy Ridley’s Rey was believed to be the child of original characters Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), because she happened to be sitting between the two legendary stars for the script reading. These rumors intensified recently, when new Star Wars: The Force Awakens images of the scavenger surfaced.
Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz visited the film’s set last year and one of the images published in Vanity Fair show Rey sitting in the Millennium Falcon alongside Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Finn, which many thought indicated that she was in fact related to our hero.
Additionally, the MSW people reveal new scenes that suggest such a relationship between the feisty rebel and the former smuggler.
“We’ve discussed the loads of circumstantial evidence for Rey being a Solo in the past. We have sequences where she is drawn to the Falcon and knows how to repair it instinctually. Han passes her his blaster and she keeps it. She ends up the Captain of the Falcon with Chewbacca as her co-pilot by the end of the film. She exits the picture soon after a heartfelt goodbye with Leia. Most of all, she ends up with the Skywalker lightsaber by the end of the show.”
However, according to the scoop provided via several sources, Rey is not a Solo. She is not even related to Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who remains shrouded in secrecy thus far. Here are several direct quotes from the sources, one of whom provided exact information about the planet Jakku not being Tatooine.
“None of the heroes… the kids… are Solos or Skywalkers.”
“She’s not a Solo.”
“It would not knock me on my knees to learn she is a Solo. VII does not answer that question. It just presents it.”
“We have not seen anything to make us think the girl is the daughter…yet.”
The thought is that Rey’s origins won’t be revealed in Star Wars: The Force Awakens much as was the case with Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in the original trilogy. After all, some mystery needs to be kept for the remaining films of this new trilogy — but the possibilities are interesting. Could Rey be related to Obi Wan? Let us know your thoughts.
[Image via Lucasfilm]
