If he's meant to be that same obscure to the max character than Orci's comment was quite assholish.
Well, yeah. I've been saying for years that Abrams and his Cohorts are jackasses. Nothing new here.
It's been done before Liam Neeson was called Henri Ducard in the marketing for Batman Begins and for most of the fim until the end where they revealed he was Ra's al Ghul. If fact Christopher Nolan played that trick twice over the course of three Batman movies.
Thing is, Nolan didn't string everyone along for nearly a year by not indentifying who Neeson was playing with vague hints about he's someone from the comics and then officially announce "he's Henri Ducard," causing everyone to ask "who now?"
Exactly. Why "play" a potential audience like this? I honestly don't like this part of what they do. Anthony Pascale over at trekmovie.com posted that he
confirmed the villain is named, John Harrison. Still, many of us seem skeptical. And if it turns out the name is just a pseudonym, then Pascale was a catspaw and his credibility suffers. I'd think Orci et al would eventually lose trust, that way.
Be secretive. Fine. But don't be coy about it.
