	The idea for the character, whose name during early pre-production was Sam, came from screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan. Colleague Michael Arndt, who prepared an early draft of "The Force Awakens", said: And then we were struggling to figure out who the male lead was going to be. I remember we talked about pirates and merchant marines and all this stuff, and finally Larry [Kasdan] got pissed at all of us and he's just like, "You guys, you're not thinking big. What if he's a stormtrooper that ran away?"