Star Wars author Alan Dean Foster says Disney told him to remove any romantic scene between Finn and Rey in their 2015 novelization The force awakens.
Foster was recruited by JJ Abrams to write the official novelization of the film, as he did with the original film by George Lucas in 1976, which was published under the name Lucas, but written by Foster.
Speaking for Midnight limit, Foster says he put a scene that suggested a future romance between Daisy Ridley and the characters of John Boyega in his novel, which he hoped would be expanded in 2017 The last Jedi.
“There were some things there, and some things that happened afterwards that bothered me,” he revealed about the process of working with Disney on the novel.
“I am going to tell you something that I was forced to remove because it has been a long time, I don’t think it matters,” he added.
“Obviously there was a beginning of a relationship between the character of John Boyega and the character of Daisy Ridley [in Abrams’ screenplay]. I expected to see this developed further in Episode VIII [The Last Jedi], and nothing happened to him. “
Reviewing The force awakens after its launch, NME wrote: “Abrams completely captured the original spirit as one might reasonably expect. The old characters look like worn-out versions of themselves, the new ones live convincingly alongside them.
“And because we know this is the beginning of another trilogy – and then some, probably – Abrams gives you exactly what you want in the end: enough provocation to make you start anticipating everything again.”
Elsewhere, Darth Vader was elected the greatest Star Wars villain of all time. In a Radio Times poll, in which 10,000 votes were cast for 16 villains, the Dark Lord of the Sith came out on top guaranteeing 33 percent of the final count.
Sheev Palpatine – played by Ian McDiarmid – came in second on the list, while Darth Maul won 6 percent of the vote, as did Boba Fett, who recently returned to the franchise in the second series of The Mandalorian.