Daisy Ridley’s Rey Will Return in a New Star Wars Movie

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Among the brand new films simply introduced for the Star Wars galaxy at Star Wars Celebration in the U.Okay. was an as-yet untitled sequel to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The title character of that film was Rey … nicely, by the tip of the film she wished to be generally known as Rey Skywalker, the final of the Jedi. (Jedi have a behavior of getting one final Jedi, then discovering a bunch extra Jedi, it’s sort of their factor.)

What occurs subsequent in Rey’s story? We will lastly discover out in a new big-screen movie, that will star Daisy Ridley again as Rey. The film is being directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, which implies this is similar mission we’ve been listening to rumors about for months involving the assorted writers concerned with its screenplay. We first bought stories that Damon Lindelof was engaged on the film — however late final month got here phrase that he had left the mission and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight was as an alternative hooked up to the script.

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The Rey movie was one in all three new Star Wars films introduced at SWCA — though they’re not a trilogy. The different two are a film in regards to the “dawn of the Jedi” set 1000’s of years earlier than the opposite movies, from director James Mangold, and a Dave Filoni manufacturing that can wrap up all the storylines from the Disney+ Star Wars collection together with The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and the upcoming Ahsoka. So this Rey mission is the one true sequel to the sooner Star Wars films on the horizon. It can be the one which takes place the furthest into Star Wars’ timeline.

The subsequent Star Wars film was scheduled to be launched in theaters on December 19, 2025. If this film comes collectively rapidly, it may theoretically meet that deadline. But it might be fairly tight.