WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD
Keep your eyes open! The new TV spot for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, "Every Generation Has a Story," was released via Twitter Sunday afternoon. Though it was the shortest preview yet, it perhaps revealed the most about how some of the new characters are integral to the seventh installment in the series. Lupita Nyong'o's alien character, Maz Kanata, says "I have lived long enough to see the same eyes in different people. I see your eyes. I know your eyes." According to many fans, it would seem that she is trying to draw a familial connection between Harrison Ford's Han Solo and Daisy Ridley's Rey, something fans have done since before the first movie trailer was released. As Maz Kanata says, "I have lived long enough to see the same eyes in different people," the trailer zooms in on Ford's face. The camera cuts to Oscar Isaac's Poe Dameron and John Boyega's Finn as Maz Kanata says, "I see your eyes. I know your eyes." It's possible they might be red herrings.
Questions regarding Rey's lineage picked up steam a few days ago when an international trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit the Internet. In that trailer, Maz Kanata asks Rey, "Who are you?" Rey responds that she's "no one" but goes on to say, "I know all about waiting...for my family."
Might her parents be Han and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher)? So many questions!
There's another popular theory to consider: Given that Kylo Ren is not Adam Driver's character's birth name (it's a title he was given after joining the Knights of Ren), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens producer Kathleen Kennedy has hinted that twins run in the Skywalker family, he might be another Skywalker-Solo (aka Rey's brother). If that were true, it wouldn't be the first time someone in his family turned to the Dark Side of the FOrce (yeah, we're talking about you, Darth Vader). Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker has been M.I.A. thus far, leading many fans to believe he, like his father and possible nephew Kylo Ren, has become a villain.
Director J.J. Abrams has neither confirmed nor denied the speculation about the newcomers' heritage. Star Wars: The Force Awakens will arrive in theaters Dec. 18.
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