Top 5 Explanations for Andy Serkis’ Character’s Name

It's official -- Andy Serkis will play Supreme Leader Snoke in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Still scratching your head? Same here! But we've done some digging and uncovered the top theories making the rounds of the Twittersphere for you. So scratch no more and get some unfiltered answers regarding Snoke after the Snoking gun. Sorry. We're excited.

Keyboard fail. The A on J.J. Abram’s netbook was busted, so he used the next closest vowel… the O. Sadly, the name Snake would have worked to complete the new Order of Sitheryn, but now… well, we got Snoke in The Force Owokens.

Disney mandated the name be similar in cadence to the Seven Dwarves because Snoke will be the leader of the Order of the Seven. J.J. and the House of Mouse reached a compromise by dropping the suffix. Rather than Snokey, we got Snoke. Hurray!

Kathleen Kennedy’s offhand name suggestion of “Nebuchadnezzar” to J.J. was met with a “S’NOPE!” but the executive producer still had some liquid in her hear from that morning’s 3-hour Soul Cycle warmup. To her, it was clearly “SNOKE.”

In an unprecedented tie-in with the upcoming Kristin Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg film American Ultra, Disney decided to name the lead villain to Star Wars: The Force Awakens #Snoke because American Ultra’s marketing will center on a backwards hashtag of Smoke#. When asked for comment, Disney reps said it was for “Poetry.”

Andy Serkis is to be made entirely of steam… but not just any steam. Vapor from limbs powered by e-cigs made by Snoke, one of the leading authorities in the vape game.