But at the end of The Force Awakens, Rey looks a little too eager to hand the weapon over to Luke when she finally finds him on Ahch-To.
And in the fight with Rey at the end of The Force Awakens, the lightsaber does not fly into Kylo Ren’s hands.
In the initial run up to The Force Awakens, Lucasfilm and Disney made a concerted effort to keep the lightsaber out of Rey’s hands in most of the marketing material.
When The Last Jedi began production last year, rumors started to spread that Rey is reincarnated.