SPECULATION OFFICIAL Rey Discussion Thread

Yes, the solitary comment could mean anything considering many characters in the SW canon have been categorized as such (Rey Yoda confirmed lol). I do believe that the race neutral comments coming from multiple sources over the course over a year means something. If it was just the Rachel casting, then okay maybe they hadn't decided yet on her. But to start talking about it now, after the writing's been finished and the movie is basically in the can, I think does point to Rey being cast with an open mind.

Also just as a film/storytelling device, I'd find it weird to have siblings not talking in the same accent or just in general only one kid in the family speaking in a totally different accent from everyone else. I have to think if they wanted her to have an American accent, they would've ensured that she could do one before casting her.

 

Which Rey can do if she was Leia's daughter.

KK said that the saga is a linear narrative and TFA follows on from VI. Basically, the end of each trilogy sets up the next. For example:

ROTS set up ANH via...
- Anakin reborn as Darth Vader.
- Birth of the Empire.
- Birth of Luke and Leia.
- Luke placed in the care of his aunt and uncle on Tatooine with Leia in the care of Bail on Alderaan.
- Obi-Wan watching over Luke.
- Construction of the Death Star.

ROTJ sets up TFA via...
- Emperor is dead.
- Vader is dead.
- Empire has been scattered.
- Han and Leia have become an item.

This would show that Han and Leia would have children. Now, if Luke gave a pretty Rebel pilot a casual wink that would set up a possible relationship but it didn't happen.

 

There is no set up in ROTJ for Luke to have children. Luke is practically asexual by that point. "Pass on what you have learned" was Yoda's last piece of advice to him.

In the new canon Moving Target book, Leia notices that even before ROTJ and the sister reveal that Luke didn't feel anything for her.

 

Has anyone made a point of the visual similarities between Rey and Princess Yuki from The Hidden Fortress (one of Lucas' biggest plot influences for the original Star Wars)?

 

So the runner up from the cast from Rey, happens to have the exactly same facial features of Daisy Ridley, basically a Daisy Ridley with short hair.

Yep, she isn't related, and was a totally random casting.

Yep.

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Just a thought that wen into my head, if the new trilogy is Rey's story, and if episode 7,8,9 will set up episode 10,11 and 12, could Rey instead of the new Luke, the new Anakin who will become the new "Vader".

We saw Vader before, and then learned how Anakin become him, what if we are seeing the same story just from the opposite point of view?

 

I don't think the "set-up" argument is a strong argument. There has been no set-up or hint about Snoke or the Knights of Ren, for example. The light sabre that was lost in Cloud City during TESB, without any more mention in ROTJ, now re-appeared and became a central object of interest in the new film. We never heard of Maz Kanata in the OT, but she supposedly has lived for a long time and has "special" ability. I think when JJ and LK rewrote the script and deviated from GL's treatment, all bets are off as to whether they have kept whatever continuity that GL had set up.

Besides, if Kylo Ren turns out to be Han and Leia's son, then our expectation about Han and Leia having a child will be satisfied (just not our expectation that the kid will be a hero as well).

 

I think if you're writing a story that takes place 30 years after the previous, and you start off with the assumption that NOTHING happened in those 30 years that isn't a complete straight line, then you setting up a terrible story that no one even needs to see. If you're going in with that assumption, then literally nothing interesting will happen I guess.

The linear story coming straight off that ROTJ ending would've had Luke with a re-invigorated group of new Jedi, Han and Leia happily married with a bunch of kids and the New Republic flourishing. That's clearly not what we are getting in TFA. There were clearly some twists and turns along the way. If you can accept a First Order that looks almost exactly like the Empire that was implied to have been defeated in ROTJ, then you can accept whatever else they decide to throw at you.

 

I don't think its them trolling. I think its rather simple they were telling the truth. They have both Luke and Leia who could have had children. It is a slight tweak in back story one over the other as to how Rey might end up on Jakku. If they chose someone that did not seem consistent with Han and Leia the could rely on Luke as the father and the divergence being the mother.

If she is even a Skywalker/Solo.

 

I really don't think there was even the slightest chance they couldn't find a decent enough white girl to pass for Han/Leia's kid. That's why I honestly don't buy the "brunettes/dark eyes only" casting stories because Hollywood rarely cares what an actress looks like in real life, they have enough money for a good wig department after all. JLaw hasn't been using her real hair in movies since she went pixie over 2 years ago. The only thing they're not going to change is their race obviously. Look at Nina Gold's own Game of Thrones casting - 2 out of the 3 Lannisters are dark haired in real life.

 

I have heard rumors that in Michael Arndt's script, Han and Leia's daughter was the main protagonist. Yet the casting rumors in the summer of 2013 (presumably based on MA's script) said they were looking at blonde actresses like Saoirse Ronan and Chloe Moretz.

 

Chloe Moretz said that she wanted to play Han Solo's daughter because [Han] Solo is cooler and more badass than [Luke] Skywalker.

A lot of people agree.

 

We get it, you have a boner for Han.

 

Regardless of whether Rey is related to Skywalker/Solo or not, I do think that her parentage will be an important part of the story. They could have just said that Rey's parents died when she was young, or not say anything about it at all. Instead, they have made it more mysterious by saying that Rey was abandoned, and explicitly leaving open the possibility that her parents are still alive somewhere. I don't think a writer does that unless Rey's parents will be crucial to the story somehow.

 

I think that Kylo and Rey are blood relative, but more cousins than siblings.. Obviously it feels that Kylo has a connection with Vader.. wants to finish what he started
hard to tell who the parents are still.. could go both ways really.. Kylo looks a lot like Han, agreed but a lot like his grandfather too.. Anakin!
Rey looks like she is on a personal quest, looking for her past.. who her parents are.. from what we see in the trailers, you don't see much of a connection between Han and Rey, but that could be on purpose..
I think id go Third possibility, Rey and Kylo ARE siblings, and Luke is the father.. see all the drama coming form a situation where you got two siblings at two sides of the scope.. one is Light, the other is Dark.. One is on a journey to become a Jedi, one is already a powefull Darkside user ( reflects past trilogy) the poster kinda suggest that too..close but opposite

 

Disney have to trademark Rey`s full name sooner or later, right?

 

Not sure. The rumors going around from sites like here and MSW, who both seem to have legitimate sources, have said from the beginning that Rey is not her true name but an alias if I'm not mistaken.

 

Pretty much said what I was going to. We don't need everything set up.

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Moving Target is just making it canon that Luke wasn't "really" attracted to Leia in that way even before the reveal. I think it is meant to take the edge off the whole relationship pre-reveal. That doesn't mean Luke is asexual, he just has an instinct about his sister. They already showed in ROTJ that Leia had a sense that they were related deep down. And even Luke almost immediately realized who his sister was.
Having Rey be Luke's daughter sets up a nice mystery, and Abrams loves his mystery box. I just think having her be Han and Leia's is too obvious. I even feel that they will play that up for the audience to throw us off.

 

Some have suggested it, I strongly oppose it. It seems very silly to describe the "I'm Finn and I'm Rey" scene as two people giving fake names with real names revealed later.

 

I don't think Finn's name will change, i think that's the name he chooses on the spot, he always was called FN2187, i'm fairly confident on the Universal Soldier kind of scenario.

Now about Rey, there's precedent from someone to have a name when they're adopted or estranged from their parents and get new name, Rey must be the name she choose or someone else choose for her, while her birth name was other, also if she is hiding make sense for change everything about her included the name.

I still believe she will be called Kira Rey Solo by episode 9