“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.
Yeah. If the sequel trilogy is to be the story of the new generation rather than the old (which is what it should be), than the question of “who is Luke Skywalker?” literally is far less pertinent than the question of “who is Luke Skywalker to these new character?”
I actually seem to remember the conversation with Kennedy and Abrams being the other way around. Kennedy used the question to convince Abrams to take on the project. He was fascinated by the idea of a character asking who Luke Skywalker was (Rey - this line of course evolving with the script to become “Luke Skywalker? I thought he was a myth.”).