To paraphrase the great "I Love Lucy": J.J., you've got some explaining to do! J.J. Abrams, the director of the much-loved "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," accidentally put himself into some hot water when he addressed his recent film's biggest mystery. Ever since "The Force Awakens" hit theaters back in December, fans have been trying to piece together who the parents of Daisy Ridley's character Rey are/were. In fact, fans have been getting so desperate that they've been grasping at straws trying to connect Felicity Jones's character in the upcoming "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" to Rey.
But Abrams dropped the hammer when he recently announced the following: "Rey's parents are not in Episode VII. So I cannot possibly in this moment tell you who they are. This is all I will say. It is something Rey thinks about too."
If you need to see the full video to properly digest Abrams' comments, check it out below. But you may not be reeling from this admission for long.
J.J. Abrams reveals Rey's parents aren't in The Force Awakens @slashfilm pic.twitter.com/O2j8gFNqtF
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After the Internet lost its collective mind over this revelation, Abrams quickly clarified the true intent of his comments. The director claims he was only trying to note that "The Force Awakens" establishes the mystery of Rey's parents without actually providing any answers.
"What I meant was that she doesn't discover them in Episode VII. Not that they may not already be in her world," he said.
This would seemingly put all of the popular fan theories back into play. Many have speculated that Rey could be Luke Skywalker's daughter or the daughter of Han Solo and General Leia Organa, making her related to Adam Driver's Kylo Ren. Some even believe she is the granddaughter of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
We won't know the her true lineage until Rian Johnson's "Star Wars: Episode VIII" arrives in theaters in December of 2017 (even then, it's no guarantee). But at least we can understand the reasoning behind Abrams' story structure and why "The Force Awakens" so closely mirrored "A New Hope."
"We very consciously tried to borrow familiar beats so the rest of the story could hang on something that we knew was Star Wars," Abrams said. "...It needed to establish itself as something familiar with a sense of where it's going to a new land, which is very much what [Episodes] VIII and IX do."
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