“Who is Luke Skywalker? It’s better for the mystery if the audience never finds out, really.”
What is this even supposed to mean.
I think it means that Robert Patrick should have directed Episode IX.
Heh!
Abrams’ answer to Kathleen Kennedy’s question “who is Luke Skywalker” is supposedly what got him the gig to direct TFA in the first place. Unless his answer was “a mystery box,”
I think we have our answer.
Snark aside, why not? The movie is a quest to find Luke, so I’m guessing the pitch was something along the lines of ‘Luke means different things to different people, as his legend has grown. It’s not my job to give you the definitive version of the Jedi Returned.’
I can almost admire that.