May 5 (UPI) -- Star Wars: The Last Jedi writer and director Rian Johnson has detailed how he asked J.J. Abrams to change the ending to The Force Awakens in order to help out his upcoming sequel.
Johnson, while speaking with Entertainment Weekly, revealed that the original ending to The Force Awakens had Rey (Daisy Ridley) traveling with droid BB-8 instead of R2-D2 to meet Luke Skywalker at the end of the film.