So it does seem somewhat legit that the two of them would be able to pick up on the signs that Star Wars: Episode IX would be returning to where we first met Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s Finn.
But what could a return to Jakku mean for the final film in the trilogy of new Star Wars episodic installments?
While it seems a bit circumstantial, the fact remains that Star Wars: The Force Awakens filmed part of the movie in Abu Dhabi, and the location was used for the Jakku sequences.
It was there that Mark and Mel Pickup, an artist and a DJ, respectively, played two of the characters that made up the local color of the planet – and they talked about their experience recently on the Everything Geek Podcast.