Is the Solo Twins In The Force Awakens?

The Solo Twins In The New Star Wars?

BY LARRY CARROLL AT 11:10 PM ON OCT 20, 2015

There are Star Wars fans, and then there are Star Wars fans. And if you’re hardcore enough to know Princess Leia’s cell number (2187), Grand Moff Tarkin’s middle name (Wilhuff) and what Han Solo was scripted to say before he got frozen (“I love you too”), then you probably know all about the twins.

In the Expanded Universe series of books that began publishing in 1994 and were set after the events of “Return of the Jedi,” Han Solo and Leia Organa married and had twins — a son named Jacen and a daughter named Jaina. Throughout production of “The Force Awakens,” JJ Abrams and other behind-the-scenes forces have insisted that the film will tell its own story — but now that fans have received their best look yet at the film thanks to the trailer heard ’round the world, a growing contingent is convinced that the twins are indeed in the film.

Possible spoilers ahead, so you can stop reading now if these are not the rumors you’re looking for.

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The key to these new suspicions (with thanks to RadioTimes) isn’t that Jacen and Jaina are background characters in the trailer who will emerge in the actual film and ensuing trilogy, but instead that they’ve been under our noses the entire time. By now, you know and love and probably already have action figures for Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and Rey (Daisy Ridley). But in the Expanded Universe books, the sister heads towards the good side of the Force while the brother succumbs to the Dark Side — and there is building evidence that those two characters are incognito similar to how Luke Skywalker began “A New Hope.”

In exile

The “Star Wars” films have always loved working in generational circles. So it would make sense that although Rey is a scavenger on Jakku — a desert planet similar to Tatooine — she would be similar to Luke at the beginning of “New Hope” in that she doesn’t know her parents, and was put on that remote planet for her own safety.

The resemblance

Take a look at Ridley in the scenes we’ve glimpsed thus far, then look back at old pictures of Princess Leia and her mother Padme. Ridley is not only dressed in ways that remind you of those old characters that could possibly be Rey’s mom and grandmother, but the actress herself looks so much like Carrie Fisher and Natalie Portman did at the ages when they shot their films that it seems naive to think a casting director wasn’t purposely trying to match her to that “type.”

What if Kylo Ren becomes a Sith Lord?

In the Expanded Universe books, Jacen Solo saw his grandfather Anakin as a sympathetic character — which led him to become a Sith lord named Darth Caedus who followed in the monstrous footsteps of Darth Vader. In “Force Awakens,” Kylo Ren isn’t a Sith Lord yet, but in virtually every shot we’ve seen of him he is clearly meant to evoke a certain heavy-breathing character — and it ain’t Jabba after 20 minutes on a treadmill. Seriously, take a look at the picture below – how clear is it that this guy is trying to be Darth Vader?

Their ages

We know that “The Force Awakens” is set about 34 years after the events of “A New Hope,” and in the Expanded Universe the twins were born about 9 years after Luke blew up that first Death Star. So if you do the math, the twins should be about 25 — and both actors playing those roles are in the right age range.

Han and Leia are distraught

Quite likely the most powerful shot of the new trailer is watching a distraught Leia resting her head on the chest of an equally somber Han Solo. We know they married, we know it’s been 30+ years, and yet we haven’t heard a peep about any possible offspring. So, if the couple aren’t in tears over the state of their children, what else could possibly have an old married couple in such distress?

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