how about making her Obi-Wan’s daughter. Thus linking up to a potential new spin off. Maybe JJ an swing the new script into that ark.
Because Obi-Wan died 15 years before Rey was born. To make her a Kenobi, you’d need to give Obi-Wan a lover AND a child offscreen. I suppose you could give him a secret kid with Satine from TCW, but they can’t expect a general audience who isn’t super familiar with the cartoon to follow or care about all that. Besides, Johnson’s whole point is that it’s time to stop focusing on bloodlines. Making Rey a nobody democratizes the Force. Making her a Kenobi keeps it aristocratic.
One other thing that Johnson said was that he wrote the script for The Last Jedi before TFA…
Incorrect. Johnson wrote much of TLJ before TFA was released, but the TFA script was definitely finalized and production well underway before he started his own screenplay.