Daisy Ridley's character Rey in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" really invigorated the franchise, and her familial ties has become the subject of a lot of interest for avid fans. Is she really the daughter of Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and General Leia (Carrie Fisher), therefore making Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) her evil brother? Or is she the daughter of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and a mysterious woman?
Even though it will be several years before "Star Wars: Episode IX" makes its debut, director Colin Trevorrow is already hard at work to make sure that the last movie of the trilogy will satisfy fans. More importantly, Trevorrow wants to make sure that the answers regarding Rey's family tree will gets fans' seal of approval.
During an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Trevorrow shared that he has already been doing "a lot of scribbling and a lot of notes thinking about the story that I want to tell."
The fan theories about Rey's parents are not lost on Trevorrow, who has actually read them all.
"What I do know is that we're going to make sure that that answer is deeply and profoundly satisfying, because Rey is a character that is important in this universe, not just in the context of 'The Force Awakens' but in the entire galaxy, and she deserves it," he said. "So we'll make sure that that answer is something that feels like it was - it's something that happened a long time ago (in a galaxy) far, far away, we're just telling you what happened."
What Trevorrow can confirm though is that Rey's father is actually someone that fans already know.
"What's interesting is I'm not creating a host of new characters," he revealed. "I have a lot of characters that people really love that we're going to make sure are all honored. No one's going to be left behind."
In fact, Trevorrow wants to beef up the roles of "Star Wars" legends such as Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill in Episode IX, and he can't wait "to find new places that we can take those characters."
"They are icons, but they're also people that have suffered tremendous loss and challenge over the course of all these films," he said. "By the time we get to Episode IX, I look at that movie as one movie, as three movies, as six movies, and as nine movies. It's something that needs to honor a story that has been told over a period of 40 years... Star Wars is a belief system, it's not just a story and it's not just a movie, and it's something I take very seriously."
