Star Wars Celebration news: three new movies, final season of ‘Andor’
nypost.comreturn to play Rey in a new, untitled movie. Although the flick will be about Rey, the badass orphan heroine of Episodes VII through IX, it likely won’t be a continuation of the studio’s tentpole Luke Skywalker-Darth Vader series.Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy told Vanity Fair in 2022, “We are moving on from the Skywalker saga.
That’s what’s taking a lot of time, discussion, and thought right now.”Director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy says the movie, set 15 years after 2019’s “Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker,” will “tell the story of the rebuilding of a new Jedi order.”“My heart is pounding,” Ridley said on stage in London. “I’m very thrilled to be continuing this journey.”The film’s original screenwriters, Damon Lindelof (“Watchmen”) and Justin Britt-Gibson, left the project in March.
Steven Knight of “Peaky Blinders” takes on writing duties.Our reunion with Rey was one of three new movies in development that Kennedy announced Friday.
Another will be directed by James Mangold, who also helmed this summer’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” and will concern the earliest origins of the Force and the Jedi.
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