The backstory of Rey in The Last Jedi could have been very different

January 31, 2018

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The backstory for Rey in the worlds ninth highest grossing film of all time, The Last Jedi, could have been significantly different and, according to writer / director Rian Johnson it could have been completely insane.

Speaking on the /Filmcast podcast, Johnson went through the list of possibilities that could have been Rey’s backstory.

I honestly listed everything I could think of. Even awful possibilities where I said, ‘This is not what we’re going to do.

I mean the less silly one was, ‘Is she a clone?’ Anything that’s a theory on Reddit now, I guarantee was listed on that document.

The silliest one was, ‘Is she a robot?’ OK, we’ve seen a bio-mechanical realistic flesh hand on Luke, could the technology have advanced significantly in the 30 years, and then I just started laughing. Look forward to the ‘Rey was almost a robot’ headlines.

ViaDigital Spy

Source/Filmcast

Mark Newbold

Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.

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Speaking on the /Filmcast podcast, Johnson went through the list of possibilities that could have been Rey’s backstory.

I honestly listed everything I could think of. Even awful possibilities where I said, ‘This is not what we’re going to do.

I mean the less silly one was, ‘Is she a clone?’ Anything that’s a theory on Reddit now, I guarantee was listed on that document.

The silliest one was, ‘Is she a robot?’ OK, we’ve seen a bio-mechanical realistic flesh hand on Luke, could the technology have advanced significantly in the 30 years, and then I just started laughing. Look forward to the ‘Rey was almost a robot’ headlines.