Array
The “Wars” aren’t over yet.
At the Star Wars Celebration event Friday in London, Disney and Lucasfilm announced a Death Star-sized slate of upcoming films and TV shows to be set in a galaxy far, far away.
The biggest news of the day was that Daisy Ridley will return to play Rey in a new, untitled movie.
Although the flick will be about Rey, the badass orphan heroine of Episodes VII through IX, it likely won’t be a continuation of the studio’s tentpole Luke Skywalker-Darth Vader series.
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy told Vanity Fair in 2022, “We are moving on from the Skywalker saga. That’s what’s taking a lot of time, discussion, and thought right now.”
Director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy says the movie, set 15 years after 2019’s “Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker,” will “tell the story of the rebuilding of a new Jedi order.”
“My heart is pounding,” Ridley said on stage in London. “I’m very thrilled to be continuing this journey.”
The film’s original screenwriters, Damon Lindelof (“Watchmen”) and Justin Britt-Gibson, left the project in March.
