After several years of nostalgia-baiting, Lucasfilm has finally announced a project that will bring back Daisy Ridley’s Rey Skywalker. Admittedly the film has been having quite a hard time getting off the ground, but one different thing is, Ridley herself has been more intimately involved in the developing process.
In a recent talk with Collider, Ridley shares:
“I don’t know that I’d be a producer on it, but I certainly have been very involved. I’m involved in, well, not very involved, but I’m involved in as much as I know what’s going on, I know the story, I know what’s going on with the script, so I’m aware of all that. And I think what’s been really wonderful over the last few years is being more involved from the start to finish, really coming to set knowing this is the absolute best way we can tell this story. These are the best actors for the job. This is the best crew for the job. Having that confidence is so lovely. And it’s not that I didn’t have that before, but I’m much more cognizant of it now. So in that way, I’m looking forward to turning up, really knowing the ins and outs of what the journey has been, and we’re arriving at the absolute best place to tell this particular story.”
With the Sequel Trilogy getting criticized for not having a solid story when it was started by J.J. Abrams, it does seem like Lucasfilm is trying to remedy that—some may even consider that they are overcorrecting, what with the several writers that have come and gone since the project had been announced.
It’s not clear exactly how Lucasfilm wants to push forward with the Sequel Era, but it does seem like they’ve stepped back far enough since the end of The Rise of Skywalker to take a good look at what works and what doesn’t.
I’m just hoping their message is more attuned with projects like Andor and The Last Jedi, because I have no excitement for nostalgia-baiting titles like Ahsoka and The Mandalorian.
No release date has been set for New Jedi Order, but fans are hoping for something by 2026.
