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

Daisy Ridley’s position within the Star Wars universe isn’t over. Disney introduced that The Drive 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.

One in every 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 stated about it was that Rey can be on the lookout for recent force-sensitive recruits within the formation of a brand new Jedi Academy. I’m positive nothing will go incorrect 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 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 just lately, The Rise of Skywalker made the weird option to retcon her parentage, switching her backstory from that of a no person to the bizarre youngster clone of Emperor Palpatine, compounding among the worst lore decisions from unique creator George Lucas’ personal beleaguered prequel films. Rey’s character has additionally been an unceasing supply of fanfic fascination, along with her fraught romance with Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren spawning one million Tumblr debates, now merely often 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 quite a bit 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 definitely seems like enterprise as normal and one other mushy reboot of the repetitive cycle. However perhaps not.

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