SPECULATION OFFICIAL Rey Discussion Thread

Let's clear up a couple of things here. First of all Daisy isn't being replaced by Maisie as female lead. We have no rumors indicating anything like that from any credible sources. And besides as long as Boyega is still in the next two films you can be sure TPTB are not going to make the main female black. It is bold enough to have a black character (Finn/Boyega) as arguably your main male lead for a franchise film like this, but having the main female being black as well? Hollywood isn't going to go that far. In a huge tentpole motion picture that has a lot of money riding on it, TPTB are not going to make both of the primary characters non-white. Maybe a decade or two from now you could possibly have such a film with, say, an Asian male and a non-white Hispanic woman as the major protagonists, but we aren't there yet. Baby steps, people. Let's get real.

Next thing to clear up is the misinformation that Daisy Ridley is the only new cast member who is confirmed for a return in VIII and IX. The truth is there has been no official confirmation of Ridley or anybody will return. But do we really need such confirmation? Wasn't the casting photo you saw in April confirmation enough in regards to which of the new cast will be sticking around? Anyway the whole thing is absurd. Deadline released a report in the summer that Ridley was joining with a high-powered American agency in order to help her be in position to get A-list roles. That was basically all the rock solid information the report had to say. Everything else was mostly speculation because it reported that Ridley was the female lead who would likely be appearing in the two followup sequels of VII. Anyone who keeps up with Hollywood Reporter, Variety or Deadline understand that these Hollywood periodicals tend to provide a list of any future work of the people they reported on. In the case of Ridley the only thing Deadline had to go on was the assumption that she would be back for VIII or IX.

So why didn't that Deadline report make the same claim in regards to a Boyega or a Isaac or a Driver, etc.? Well, first of all Deadline wasn't discussing them, just Ridley. No need therefore for them to add that the other newcomers would likely be in VIII and IX too. And the reason why Deadline was focusing on Ridley alone was because she was making industry news at the time by switching to a major profile Hollywood agency. Her other cast members, however, were not switching agencies or joining a new agency so there was nothing new to report regarding them. It's that simple.

Unfortunately the guys at Making Star Wars got a hold of that report and interpreted it to mean that Daisy Ridley was the only new cast member who was confirmed to be in all the films of the new trilogy. The Deadline report said no such thing but it didn't matter. All of the other countless genre websites and blogs followed the lead of MSW and put forth their own equally erroneous blogs/postings. And from there many Star Wars fans took it as gospel that Ridley was the lone newbie that was guaranteed to make it past Episode VII. To be honest I gotta say that was a pretty dumb thing to believe. I mean did people actually think TPTB, halfway through the filming of VII, did not have any idea who they wanted back for the next two films? Was the filming of VII supposed to be auditions for all the other cast members even though they all had more film experience than Ridley? Base on a couple recent posts in this thread some people STILL believe this! Do you really think Lucas Film and Disney haven't decided yet whether they want to bring Boyega or Driver or Isaac back for the next film? Good grief.

 

(from left: Finn, Rey, BB-8 fully transformed, and Maisie on the set of their TFA prequel series, the Amazon exclusive, Annedroids)

"You so crazy, Bobo!"

Let's break it down. Anne, female variant of Anakin. She is a junker and a tech whiz who just so happens to have made what amounts to a C3PO ripoff. The punny name ends with Droids.

(runs)

 

Serious question then without people jumping down my throat. Could you see a situation within the next two films where potentially we could see a situation without any female protagonist at all? You see in another thread which I have conversed in, lets just say I have to be careful about my words here, I maybe inclined to say that it is a possibility.

I also want to say if that was to happen which am not sure fully 100% that it will, how would this fit in with the societal status of the status-quo? I would like people to give me a little leeway here when I say, if this was to happen could you see why I would be angry with Mr Abrams? Also on a macro level people would / could suggest this to be misogyny? As having zero female leads. I hope this dialogue which I am expressing helps people to understand why I got angry the other day. Am not trying to be petulant, am trying to conduct a potential serious scenario without people more or less saying am an idiot and a troll and whether potentially it could happen.

*Don't take this post as fact*

Peace
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Excellent explanation of the origins of the rumor. Personally I never took it to mean that only Ridley was signed and nobody else, I've been operating under the assumption we will be seeing more Boyega and Isaac and Driver down the line but only Ridley had been confirmed for some reason.

@p03 I've been given no reason to believe that Ridley disappears off the face of the earth after VII and based off of what I have that would be a pretty far off base from everything we heard. So in other words no I can't envision that scenario because I have no reason to. I remember there were angry articles over a "lack of female cast members" after the first cast announcement but before the reveal of GC, Lupita, Clarke, Chong, Maisie, etc

 

Had a dream last night that I was watching this movie and thought I'd post what I saw.

- Daisy was there with her long hair having a photoshoot.
- Rey said to someone that she was abandoned at a young age.

 

I hope Rey is a solo I sense she is very close to Leia I have been reading speculation on other websites thinking she might play Jaina, Jacen twin sister in that trailer I saw the likeness in her eyes.

 

....but Obi Wan is dead. Oh wait you know that.

 

Jaina and Jacen are not in the ST, Ridley's character is called Rey. I also have a bet in the cantina about nobody being named Jacen and Jaina if you disagree with me

 

Oh I don't disagree I just think Rey may have been a alias for another Solo member. My bad.

 

Rey may be an Alias but I suspect it is shortened nickname for her actual full name. Of the speculated names I like Reyna the best.

 

Reychel would be a good guess, consider she at one point read for the generic "Rachel."

 

That would work too but I believe those casting call names are not typically used in the actual movies and considering the amount of secrecy with this movie it would be strange if they used a variation of it

 

If you believe in the possibility of Kylo and Rey being brother and sister the idea people have thrown around of her on set codename as Kira actually ending up as her first name is kind of interesting with her brother being Kylo. Kira Rey Solo and Kylo Ren Solo. I don't know if I believe it but the name game malarkey seems like something JJ might do.

 

It is an idea yes, and I'm not going to trash an idea just because I disagree with it but a codename is a codename. There wasn't some hidden meaning behind "Blue Harvest" that spoiled the plot to Episode VI. Kira's other codenames included Fawn, what does that reveal? People are so hooked on to Kira because they heard it for so long and it doesn't sound like a normal name so it must mean something.

Also I don't see Episode VII being the first film to give us not one but TWO unhyphenated double first names when we have never had that before in the series.

This is my personal opinion but a lot of the ideas behind "Kylo Ren and Kira Rey Solo" along with their associated theories sound a lot like Illuminati jokes. i.e. "I saw three red cars on Tuesday. Wait, three.... red has three letters, Tuesday is the third day of the week. that's three three's, cars ride on four wheels. Four times three is 12. 1 times 2 is two, two times three is six. three three's= three six's. Three six's is the number of the beast, red is the color of hell. Illuminati confirmed"

"Rey's codename was Kira, put those two together and you get Kira Rey. Kira Rey has the same two first letters as Kylo Ren. Thus the two must be siblings. If they're siblings that means they must have parents. The only married couple from Episode VI was Han and Leia. Therefore Kylo Ren and Kira Rey must be their kids. Thus they must actually be Kira Rey Solo and Kylo Ren Solo."

That's how it seems to me so far, I personally have not found any compelling evidence (i.e. rumors) to support the speculation that Kylo Ren is Rey's brother and/or a Solo.

PS- I know you weren't necessarily agreeing with it, I just saw a soapbox so I took it. Thank you for reading my rant

 

I'm with you here. A lot of the speculation has been somewhat goofy to me. It seems like a stretch at best with pulling letters out and saying they are from the last names "Solo" and "Skywalker" etc. The possibility of them actually being Kira Rey and Kylo Ren only interests me because I can see a scenario where people started letting out they she was being called Kira on set and even though she goes by Rey as a nickname in the movie I could see JJ/Disney deciding to put out the card as her solely listed as Rey just to kind of silence the chatter only for what we thought was a nickname while filming to bite us in the ass later. Once again not saying I believe it. I'm just saying of all the theories about the two characters that one is actually possible rather than all the letter games being played with the names.

Once again I don't really think so either but one could make a case at least it's something new. People could do that matching name junk with twins in a galaxy far far away I suppose right? Kind of like Luke and Leia but on another level.

 

I do to Reyna sounds hot.

 

I'm beginning to believe Rey is not kin to anyone...from a certain point of view that is.

 

I am still convinced Leia and Han NEVER formed a couple after the events of ROTJ.
Leia may have offsprings, but not with Han Solo.

My bet is still on Rey Skywalker, daughter of Luke (unknown to him, thinking she has died in her mother's womb)

 

there has been a rumor that she was the main character

 

May I ask, what the heck is that website? Something to do with the church?