Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
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JJ Abrams caused akerfuffleduring a Q&A at the Tribeca Film Festival when he was asked about Rey's parentage coming to light in Ep 8:
He had to refine that a little bit afterwards:
Even with the clarification I have a hard time buying Luke being her father but not telling her, so that theory just got a big hole blown in it as far as I'm concerned.
Gavinmad
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I assume that's supposed to be VIII not VII.
Anyway, it's not that big of a hole. Hell right off the top of my head, it could be exactly like Brom and Eragon in the Eragon books, which would be ironic given how often his writing was called a ripoff of Star Wars. Brom had to teach Eragon the basics of how to survive as a dragon rider, and when he later finds out that Brom was his father, Eragon admits that he never would have trusted him if Brom had told him. Luke is in a similar situation in that he will need to train Rey, but if he admits he's her father, there's no way she'd trust him after being marooned on Jakku for her entire childhood.
Anyway, it's not that big of a hole. Hell right off the top of my head, it could be exactly like Brom and Eragon in the Eragon books, which would be ironic given how often his writing was called a ripoff of Star Wars. Brom had to teach Eragon the basics of how to survive as a dragon rider, and when he later finds out that Brom was his father, Eragon admits that he never would have trusted him if Brom had told him. Luke is in a similar situation in that he will need to train Rey, but if he admits he's her father, there's no way she'd trust him after being marooned on Jakku for her entire childhood.
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Kahn was also not in Star Trek: Into Darkness. The dude also keeps his movies under the tightest seal in the business.
so your mileage may vary
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Shonuff
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So...I'm a little slow on the uptake. I was watching this last night at home, and something made me think Han Solo was a drug runner. Apparently, after googling this, it's true? I've watched these movies hundreds of times, I never once thought about what Han might be smuggling.
Gavinmad
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Uh, yeah, spice is used to make illicit substances, kessel is one of the biggest sources of it, and is why some smugglers used the kessel run instead of safer routes. I don't know if spice being a drug is still canon though.
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Oh so he's basically smuggling the SW equivalent of Claritin-D. It's not his fault if the end user turns it into space-meth. For all he knows, most of them could be legit using it for space-allergies.
Posthumous bro-fist @ Han.
Posthumous bro-fist @ Han.
Jait
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I agree. But it'd be WAY more 'stupid' if "Rey" wasn't a Skywalker but somehow resonated with the Skywalker blade and their memories.
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Gavinmad
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More like smuggling opium poppies if we were gonna try and make tortured connections to real life.
Way back when, I was the one arguing it was clearly Kahn from the trailers when some other people were all "nah uh JJ said it wasn't!"oh yeah. can't possibly be. J.J. way too good for that.
I don't consider putting Kahn in the star trek reboot stupid and uninteresting if that's the angle you are going.