The Last Jedi: 15 things we know about the new Star Wars movie

9. Rey’s parentage will be addressed

Many a meme was created as a result of Daisy Ridley and Mark Hamill’s interview with ABC News  earlier this year, as Ridley appeared to imply that Rey’s parentage has already been revealed in The Force Awakens. Hamill looked on slack-jawed as if she was about to turn to non-disclosure violating dust. But we’ve been wracking our brains for the moment Ridley is referring too and we still can’t work it out.

Perhaps the clue to Rey’s parentage has been right under our noses all along, but it looks like we can expect more than clues from The Last Jedi. Johnson has said definitively that the matter will be addressed, although we admit that’s pretty vague.

Nonetheless, The Last Jedi’s trailer is all about Rey finding a place, and she feels her past holds the key to that.

“To me, it’s important insofar as it’s important to her,” Johnson told Entertainment Weekly. “And I think it’s important to her in terms of what is her place in all of this? What’s going to define her in this story?” 

The Star Wars trilogies have always been about family. Carrie Fisher herself said so and if we see the trilogies as generational, it’s time for a new one. Does this mean Rey is a Skywalker? Is she the princess in hiding that Adam Driver referred in an October interview with GQ?

Driver also admitted to Rolling Stone that he plays the role younger than his own years, but refuses to say much further lest we read too much into it. Well, here we are Adam — does this mean Kylo could be closer to Rey’s age than we thought?

But if she’s a Skywalker, what’s the importance of Obi Wan Kenobi’s voice speaking to her in The Force Awakens?

Please, Rian. Just show us the birth certificate.