Star Wars Brings Back Daisy Ridley As Rey In Jedi Order Sequel

Daisy Ridley’s function within the Star Wars universe isn’t over. Disney introduced that The Power Awakens actress will return as Rey “Skywalker” in a sequel to the latest Star Wars trilogy because the character seeks to convey again the Jedi Order once more.

Considered one of three new movies introduced at Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London on Friday, will probably be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy with a script by Steven Knight. All Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy actually mentioned about it was that Rey could be in search of contemporary force-sensitive recruits within the formation of a brand new Jedi Academy. I’m positive nothing will go flawed this time both.

The character of Rey has at instances been a lightning rod for controversy within the Star Wars fandom over the course of the troubled Episode VII by means of IX trilogy, not least of all as a result of she was a lady, a pedestrian factoid that nonetheless drove some self-proclaimed followers into infinite web tizzies.

Extra not too long ago, The Rise of Skywalker made the weird option to retcon her parentage, switching her backstory from that of a no one to the bizarre youngster clone of Emperor Palpatine, compounding a number of the worst lore selections from unique creator George Lucas’ personal beleaguered prequel motion pictures. Rey’s character has additionally been an unceasing supply of fanfic fascination, together with her fraught romance with Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren spawning 1,000,000 Tumblr debates, now merely generally known as the “Reylo” wars.

This newly introduced The Rise of Skywalker sequel additionally raises some new questions on how Disney will body this New Jedi Order interval within the Star Wars timeline. Director and author Rian Johnson’s The Final Jedi did rather a lot to attempt to tear down the present mystique and hackneyed tropes surrounding the Skywalker household drama, whereas J.J. Abrams’ The Rise of Skywalker tried to bandage them again collectively. Rey forming a brand new Jedi Academy simply as Luke did actually seems like enterprise as normal and one other delicate reboot of the repetitive cycle. However possibly not.

Lucasfilm introduced a bunch of different new Star Wars content material as nicely, together with two different further movies that may every be set in numerous components of the fiction’s timeline. To date none of them have titles or launch dates although.