Daisy Ridley stars in the new “Star Wars” movie

Rey returns in the new “Star Wars” movie about rebuilding the Jedi Order.

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy said so at the “Star Wars Celebration” event in London on Friday. He writes diverse.

According to her, the character Rey will have one of the main roles in the first “Star Wars” movie since 2019.

The movie takes place in the time after the “Rise of Skywalker” trilogy. It will be about Rey rebuilding the Jedi Order.

– It’s still very early, Kennedy warned an eager audience according to USA Today.

Three new movies

According to Kennedy, the film with Daisy Ridley is just one of three new Star Wars films.

James Manigold will direct “Dawn of the Jedi.” This would be the earliest time in the Star Wars universe, and it’s set thousands of years before any of the popular Star Wars movies that have been made so far.

– asks Mangold where the strength comes from.

The third film is directed by Dave Filoni and is set after The New Republic. Among other things, it has a great impact and will be closely related to the plot of many Disney + TV series, such as “The Mandalorian”, “The Book of Boba Fett” and “Ahsoka”.

Change of key persons

Charmaine Obaid-Chinoy is the director of the movie where Daisy Ridley plays the main character. She has previously been behind films like “Ms. Marvel”. The screenplay was written by Stephen Knight, known for his work on the TV series Peaky Blinders.

Ridley said at the event that she is very happy to be back as “Ray”.

Variety wrote that Knight was attached to the project after Damon Lindelof and Justin Brett Gibson left the project in February.

Many projects have been cancelled

Kennedy earlier announced new “Star Wars” projects that had yet to come to fruition.

It said in December 2020 that Star Wars: Rogue Squadron would hit theaters in December 2023, but Disney pulled the film from its schedule. Variety wrote in March that the film is no longer in active development at Lucasfilm.

The same fate befell a Star Wars movie without an official working title that is set to be choreographed by Kevin Feige, according to Variety.