But as Abrams learned last night (or more likely re-learned, since this is the guy who made “Lost”), trying to drop little breadcrumbs about those mysteries will only lead to madness. Ridley, who has Star Wars: Episode VIII on her plate reprising her role as “Rey”, recently confirmed she’s in talks to play Lara Croft, previously played by Angelina Jolie, in a Tomb Raider reboot.
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This theory is said to have been dismissed by Daisy Ridley, however.
J.J. Abrams has already said he knows who Rey’s parents are, but he of course isn’t naming names. But at least we can understand the reasoning behind Abrams’ story structure and why “The Force Awakens” so closely mirrored “A New Hope”.
“Star Wars: Episode IX” director Colin Trevorrow also hinted in a previous interview, that Rey’s parents are mainstay characters in the Star Wars Universe. “This is all I will say: It’s something that Rey thinks about too”. That hasn’t stopped fans from asking the director questions about Rey’s parents, and he’s now backtracked a bit on one of his answers.
One of the most discussed mysteries of Episode VII revolves around the identity of Rey’s parents.
With Abrams now confirming that Rey’s parents were not there in his movie, fans can expect new important characters to be introduced in the next movie. Probably not much other than Abrams is getting pretty exhausted of having to walk on eggshells every time he talks Star Wars.
“We very consciously did, and I know were derided for this, we very consciously borrowed familiar beats so the rest of the movie would hang on something that we knew felt like ‘Star Wars, ‘” he told Rock.
“I want to say Star Wars”, joked Abrams, who also admitted to tearing up when he shot the final scenes of The Force Awakens.
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