And then I emailed J.J. Abrams and said, ‘Look, the Millennium Falcon, in the original Star Wars, the Empire put a homing beacon on the Falcon and traced it to Yavin IV, the rebel base at the end.
It wasn’t in the film at the end because J.J. realized it was pointless, but I was like, ‘I don’t care.
What if the homing beacon was still on board and Unkar activated it and used it to track Rey to the Maz’s palace?
And I shot my scenes on Jakku, which is a sort of desert planet.