This one comes courtesy of renowned Star Wars conspiracy theorist Mike Zeroh, who this week has mostly been watching bloodthirsty new X-Men outing Logan and wondering what might happen if Lucasfilm borrowed its plot. The idea here is that Daisy Ridley’s Rey simply must be connected in some way to Luke Skywalker, but cannot be his natural daughter because Leia would have recognised the proto-Jedi when they met on Takodana in The Force Awakens. The confused look on Luke’s face at the end of Abrams’ movie also makes more sense if Rey is a clone, somebody he perhaps recognises as a literal kindred spirit via his Force powers, yet does not fully recognise.
Plausibility: 3/10. Cloning is already firmly established in the Star Wars canon: the stormtroopers began in the prequels as members of the Galactic Republic’s clone army. But Rey looks a lot more like Carrie Fisher’s Leia (or her mother, Padmé Amidala) than Luke. Surely a female clone of Luke would have blond hair? If this one pans out, The Force Awakens’ casting director deserves to be fed to the Rancor.