There's a new rumor going around that the screenplay for the "Star Wars: Episode 8" is being rewritten in consideration of the comments and feedback "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" received as far as the characters go.
There's word that the script for the highly anticipated film is being tweaked to minimize the spotlight on two new female characters in favor of the characters that fans got to meet in the first new film directed by J.J. Abrams.
"I said before there were two young female roles, now I actually heard that the rewrite will make these roles smaller. They want to get to know better the characters they already have," The Wrap reporter Jeff Sneider said in the latest "Meet the Movie Press" podcast.
"So the new rewrite is shrinking the new roles in order to spend more time with Rey, Poe and so on," Sneider then explained. From the looks of it, "Star Wars: Episode 8" was not supposed to completely flesh out the mysterious new characters, at least not yet.
But media outlets believe the rewriting the "Star Wars: Episode 8" script is the right call since the newly-introduced characters in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" are inarguably shrouded in mystery.
Fans can't wait to know the backstory of Kylo Ren before he was just Ben Solo, a son to Han Solo and General Leia Organa. The same goes for Rey's real lineage, which fans have been trying to explain in various theories.
Screen Crush believes that developing the new batch of heroes and villains will be best for "Star Wars: Episode 8" and fans of the mega-popular franchise instead of having new faces for fans to familiarize with.
As for the two new heroines joining the fray in the galaxy far, far away, the names of Gugu Mbatha-Raw (soon to star in the Netflix original series "Black Mirror"), "Orphan Black" star Tatiana Maslany and "Diary of a Teenage Girl" lead Bel Powley are being bounced around.
"Star Wars: Episode 8" will be out May 26, 2017.
