![]() ![]() General Hux - Modeled after Herman Snerling, the vice principal at Abrams’ elementary school. He was liable to disappear for long periods of time and turn back up with minimal explanation, but that only made his inevitable return that much cooler. He always had just the perfect five o’clock shadow, just the perfect one-liner, just the perfect sense of totally-platonic-bro-hood. Among Abrams and his fellow sixth-graders, nobody was cooler than Coach Rick. Poe Dameron - Modeled after Rick Douglas, Abrams’ middle-school gym teacher. Prone to tantrums, but still possessing of a weird, distant, far-off handsomeness. Repeatedly gave the note to incorporate more father-son conflict into his fiction compositions. Only ever seen wearing black and scowling, professor Davidson was one of the first people to see real professional potential in Abrams’ writing and foster his talents. Kylo Ren - Modeled after Wilson Davidson, Abrams’ undergrad poetry professor. Here at Uproxx, we’ve blown the lid off of Abrams’ intricate network of nods to his erstwhile schoolteachers. ![]() It’s a neat-o detail, and for an added bonus, the Palisadian item has a primo photo of Abrams in his awkward years.īut Maz represents just one of many subtly hidden Easter eggs alluding to former teachers who Abrams has encoded into the film. (Though I personally maintain that as far as the name goes, Maz Kanata was modeled after this.) The Lupita Nyong’o-voiced character plays a pivotal role in the film, providing our heroes with the long-lost lightsaber formerly owned by Skywalkers Anakin and Luke, and Abrams intended this homage as a tribute to the educator who shaped him as a boy. Abrams and SoCal publication The Palisadian Post, when Abrams revealed that he modeled the character of shriveled, bug-eyed space pirate Maz Kanata after his equally shriveled, Coke-bottle-glasses-clad high school English teacher Rose Gilbert. Yet another nifty detail worth reporting came to light in a recent interview between director J.J. Those of us foolishly naive enough to believe the stream of news items surrounding Star Wars: The Force Awakens would ebb after the film actually came out can think again. ![]()
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