During Entertainment Weekly’s interview with Star Wars: The Force Awakens director and co-writer J.J. Abrams, we ended up talking about names a lot. At the start, he revealed something unexpected about the new villain played by Adam Driver – Kylo Ren is a name the character “came to” when he joined an order called the Knights of Ren.
I asked how he came to some of the other new names joining the Star Wars universe, and here’s what Abrams had to say …
Star Wars: The Force Awakens: J.J. Abrams explains what’s in a name
