Daisy Ridley Will Reprise Her Role as Rey in New ‘Star Wars’ Movie Set After ‘The Rise of Skywalker’

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Back to the galaxy! Daisy Ridley will reprise her role as Rey in a new Star Wars movie set after the events of Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker.Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy announced the news on Friday, April 7, at the Star Wars Celebration in London.

Details about the film are scant so far, but Steven Knight will direct the project with a script by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.The movie will follow Rey as she attempts to build a new Jedi Order after she realized her full power in 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. “My heart is pounding,” Ridley, 30, said at the event on Friday after the film was announced. “I’m very thrilled to be continuing this journey.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesObaid-Chinoy, 44, told fans that the new movie will take place 15 years after the events of Skywalker, which ended with the Resistance destroying the First Order. “I’ve always been attracted to the hero’s journey and the fact that the world needs many more heroes,” said the filmmaker, who directed two episodes of Ms.

Marvel last year.Earlier this year, Ridley admitted that she didn’t know whether she would get the chance to play Rey again in Disney’s rapidly expanding Star Wars universe. “I really don’t know if there are plans.

I just don’t know,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in February. “But ultimately, I loved my experience, I loved what I got to do and I love the people I got to work with.