Just hours ago Entertainment Weekly posted an
interview with J.J. Abrams where he offered some insight into Adam Driver's
character, Kylo Ren, and flat out admitted that that wasn't his real name. Now,
the news outlet has divulge some short commentaries from the director about the names
of some of the new characters that he has added to the Star Wars lore.
There could be spoilers ahead. You have been warned.
Finn & Rey
Abrams confesses that there is a reason why we still don’t
know the last names for Finn (John Boyega) and Rey (Daisy Ridley).
"I will only say about that that it is completely
intentional that their last names aren’t public record," he says.
Does this mean that they are the children of known
Star Wars characters like many suspect?
Poe Dameron
Oscar Isaac's name stems from a couple of different
places. For Poe, Abrams says that they "went through a bunch of different
names, and Poe ultimately felt like the right name." He added, "Someone
reminded me recently that my daughter had had a polar bear named Poe [or Po’ —
short for “polar”], and that might’ve been why it felt right. There was a kind
of sweetness to, and a charm to that name."
As for Dameron, it actually is the surname of Abrams’
assistant, Morgan Dameron, and
although Abrams says he went with the name because not only did he know it, "it
just musically felt right."
BB-8
"I named him BB-8 because it was almost
onomatopoeia," Abrams said. "It was sort of how he looked to me, with
the 8, obviously, and then the 2 B’s." Abrams also says that although many
of the characters names changed and were second-guessed throughout the development
stages, BB-8 always stuck. In addition, the "BB" in BB-8 is not a
reference to Abrams’ producing partner, Bryan Burk.
General Hux
Domhnall Gleeson character is the young and ambitious leader of The First Order. Abrams doesn't remember where the name came from but thinks it might have been during the he had with co-writer Lawrence Kasdan regarding the story of The Force Awakens.
"We were walking through a cemetery that’s near the Bad Robot offices," says Abrams, "and we would often, as we were talking about characters, sort of just be glancing at names to see if any of them stuck. I don’t believe that Hux came from there, but it may have."
Captain Phasma
"Phasma I named because of the amazing chrome
design that came from Michael Kaplan’s wardrobe team," says Abrams of Gwendoline Christie’s chrome Trooper. "It reminded
me of the ball in Phantasm, and I just
thought, Phasma sounds really cool."
Phantasm
is a 1979 sci-fi/horror film written and directed by Don Coscarelli.
Star Wars:
The Force Awakens opens on December 18.
Source -
EW
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