Maybe, maybe not.

Abrams said in the same interview (and has said before) that he sees Episode IX as the end of the Skywalker saga, so there is symmetry to their statements.
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“This character could come straight out of a Bob Dylan or Tom Waites song, or even a Dostoyevsky novel,” says Del Toro in the new issue of Empire. “He’s like something out of Dickens; there have been characters like him in all kinds of literature.”

“He’s like a knife: if you grab him by the blade, he’ll cut you. If you grab him by the handle, he can be very, very useful.”
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The collision of Good and Evil, Light and Darkness.

New Destiny VS Destiny of the Past.

It is the age of the First Order, the ruthless force of evil that has taken over the galaxy. The Resistance leaded by General Leia sends Rey to Luke, hero of the past, in order to find the last hope that’ll light the spark of victory.

Through Luke, Rey finds a special power sleeping within her and unexpectedly communes with Kylo Ren, authority of the First Order…

Who will become Light and who will become Darkness? The great battle over the destiny of Good and Evil begins!”
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Get a Mal Reynolds vibe from that photo.
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That’s what makes the idea of a brand new trilogy with completely new characters so exciting.

I think Rian Johnson is going to kill it.

I’ll be in the theater exactly two weeks and 2 and half hours from right now.

So stoked.
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So are we thinking that's an older Ezra Bridger?
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I am, but that might be a long shot. Clay has pointed out that Ezra would actually be older than Luke in this movie, but the fact that they have revealed so little about his character makes me hold on to the thought that he might actually be Ezra hiding behind a new identity.

Now watch him be Ezra and Rey is the daughter of Ezra and Sabine, who were cousins with Obi-Wan, which is why she heard his voice first in her force vision.
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I don't really see them going the Ezra route because too many casual fans would have no idea who he is. While I know there is a huge audience for Rebels, I don't think it is big enough to introduce one of their characters into the movie universe.

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I'm sure somebody will mention Saw now in Rogue One but that was a stand alone movie.
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It was a stand alone movie featuring established characters that backed up directly and seemlessly to the original. I see no reason why they couldn't introduce anybody they wanted to. They made Saw's role as a war-weary insurgent obvious, and while it's nice to see the backstory filled in by the animated series, it's not required viewing to understand what's going on.

If Del Toro is, in fact, Ezra Bridger, his backstory can be filled in with a few lines of dialogue and nobody will think twice about it.
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SMH...again, does that character appear to be OLDER than Luke?

No, therefore it's not Ezra.
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Could have been frozen in carbonite..... :-)
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Yoda lived to be 900 years old with the aid of the Force, you know......
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