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She wasn't in the first trailer, but she was in the behind-the-scenes reel from D23.
When the character synopsis was revealed (the same day as the first trailer, even though she wasn't in it), she was explicitly described as the biggest role of the 3 new major characters being introduced in Episode 8. The other two being Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo played by Laura Dern, and Benicio Del Toro's character known only by the codename of "D.J."
In the words of Rose's actress she "goes on an adventure with Finn". Which isn't much on it's own, but it is a logical starting point for a romance arc and there's no compelling reason to believe they wouldn't be able to get along, which is far more then a lot of ships have.
There was also some behind-the-scenes reports of Lucasfilm specifically casting for a love interest for Finn. That may of disappeared in script rewrites or was never true to begin withnote , but it's not nothing.
edited 26th Jul '17 2:37:56 PM by Falrinn
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What if DJ is Rey's father? Or did someone already debunk that idea?
Also, I'm surprised that Rose is being shipped with Finn considering how popular the Finn/Rey and Poe/Finn ships are. Guess Finn has cemented himself as quite the Launcher of a Thousand Ships at this point.
edited 26th Jul '17 4:01:10 PM by deuteragonist
Episode IX will introduce even more love interests for Finn, and will transition from a Space Opera to a Space Harem Show. The fate of the universe will be determined by which of his suitors Finn decides to marry.
They were clearly working on the basis that each movie in the new trilogy would spotlight a different member of the core cast, and Leia, as Luke's sister, Han's wife, and Ren's mother, was pretty central emotionally, especially with Han's death. It's just...too bad, for a lot of reasons. They could still make a good movie, but the What Could Have Been will be strong with this one.
Yeah, it's a huge shame. I wonder how much that's going to affect the endgame for Kylo Ren since quite a lot of redemption theories hinged on his relationship with Leia being a major factor. And as the finale of the trilogy it's going to have to resolve a fair number of plot elements and character arcs with delicacy, but Jurassic World was so by-the-numbers and The Book of Henry was such a clusterfuck that I don't know if Trevorrow has the chops for that.
Anyway it makes sense to me that Finn would be the Launcher of a Thousand Ships of the main trio, since he's an affable guy who's the closest the sequel trilogy has to a Classical Anti-Hero and Audience Surrogate, and those types of characters tend to be magnets for shipping these days due to making for an acceptable form of Self-Insert Fic, since outright original characters have fallen out of fashion (even if all that ends up doing is cause said canon characters to undergo severe OOC in fic for the purpose of easier self-insertion).
Trevorrow didn't write Book of Henry, though.
Plus, Star wars has never been too far from "by the numbers" story-telling.
Given what I've seen of Trevorrow's and Connolly's writing, I don't imagine 9 will be bad.
I mean, FA wasn't anything spectacular, either. If 9 ends up as good as say...Kong Skull Island, I'll be happy.
Though it is odd that Trevorrow got the job in the first place, I will admit. Abrams is an obvious, safe choice, and Johnson has plenty of indie cred but Trevorrow is kind of inexperienced by comparison.
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Keep in mind that Episode 9 hasn't started filming yet and it's not going to start filming until after Episode 8 comes out. Which means by the time the cameras start rolling they'll of had over a year to work out a good B plan for Episode 9. Not counting any time spent on contingency planning if Carrie Fisher, or really any actor/actress, was unable or unwilling to return for Episode 9 before we got the bad news of course.
And honestly if they can't figure out a good solution after working on the problem for a whole year, then they probably aren't going to figure out a good solution in ten years either. I say it's better to press forward and accept that no solution is going to be 100% perfect then run the risk of letting the sequel trilogy die with Carrie Fisher.
Not to sound... cold. But, none of the old trio were exactly the healthiest people in the world. Well, Mark and Carrie, Ford is more of a "metric shitton of near-death experiences" kind of guy.
What I'm saying is, someone in the story group had at least some root of a plan in case the worst happened. Which it has.
edited 27th Jul '17 6:04:26 PM by TheAirman
PSN ID: FateSeraph | Switch friendcode: SW-0145-8835-0610 Congratulations! She/They...God, imagine if, like, Mark had died in the middle of filming Episode VIII. That would have been disasterous.
(I'm not saying that there was any risk of this happening - merely commenting on the worst possible scenario resulting from a single death in the original trio).
edited 26th Jul '17 8:42:40 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!Harrison Ford is in very good health for his age, but fairly adventurous, a pilot and whatnot. Mark Hamill isn't necessarily a fitness guru, but he's a very high-energy performer, so I imagine he's actually more robust than he looks. Carrie was the youngest of the three, but struggled with addiction and health issues for years. I suppose you have to plan for the worst, but I can understand how they would've hoped for the best, too. She wasn't *that* old.
edited 26th Jul '17 10:20:57 PM by Unsung

Who's Finn being paired with now?