Rey Solo

This could literally fit any reveal that everyone has suggested at one time or another.

 

In the case of Looper, Johnson made the protagonist's (JGL) older self from the future (Bruce Willis) as the villain with an attempt at a sympathetic backstory: the death of his wife. He attempted to make the other older unseen villain (Rainmaker) sympathetic as well as a child (real name Cid) with the death of his mother (Sara) by the hand of future Joe (Bruce Willis) who traveled to the past.

Rian Johnson: "[Old Joe] around his wife, Cid around Sara. It's just characters being motivated by their love for another character [in Looper]" (May 21, 2013)

Love for dead characters as the backstories and driven by revenge and anger in the present stories.

He won't say it now - just as he kept the backstories for those Looper characters secret pre-release - but 'Rey' being Kylo Ren's 'dead' sister returned fits with that type of story.

"shocking revelations of the past"
"the big thematic push and pull in the movie is the past and what role the past has in moving us forward into the future” (2)

 

@McDiarmid , seriously.

Please stop posting about contents of TV Spots and other promotional pieces without spoiler tags.

This thread is not tagged as containing spoilers. There’s no reason for myself, or anyone else, to assume that they’ll see anything spoiled for them in posts such as yours.

And yet, here are your posts, without spoiler tags in a thread that isn’t tagged with the caution that it is containing spoiler tags (note: it shouldn’t have to be).

Please make a point to edit your posts so that these items are hidden in spoiler tags.

It feels disrespectful to your fellow Star Wars fans: we’re still some around 20 days from the worldwide premiere, so of course none of us have left the Internet yet to hide from things such as these.

Some, like myself, plan on avoiding TV Spots and international trailers up until we leave the Internet a few days before the worldwide premiere.

I hope that you understand where I’m coming from, as a fellow fan, and are kind enough to edit your posts accordingly.

 

Twisted by the dark side young McDiarmid has become. The boy we debated, gone he is - consumed by this ludicrous theory.

 

Don't get excited! I'm just yanking your chain old chap!

 

Luke is not crying. It is light coming through his hood. Watch tv spot #6. At 25 sec it's there then gone. It just light. Truth and fact

 

Uh, mods (are @Pomojema or @Addi Ras around?), could you please spoiler tag @McDiarmid’s and others’ comments regarding the content of the TV spot, or otherwise add a spoiler classification to the thread?

I think I’ve asked politely enough, but @McDiarmid doesn’t seem to share my perspective that they should spoiler tag such items to be respectful to other fans.

 

Except Rey Solo is an opinion (albeit one you have every right to have) of a possible outcome, and it’s something that’s been discussed ever since before TFA was released.

I’m more upset, for lack of a better term, about how openly the TV spots are being talked about, as I know that myself and many others here wish to get through to the film without having seen them/knowledge of what their contents are.

By all means, it is spoiling people’s intents to go into the film without knowledge of the TV spots.

 

the Rules & Regs for you, @McDiarmid, just so we're all clear:

you can read more here: https://thecantina.starwarsnewsnet.com/index.php?threads/rules-regulations-v1-5.1/