At Star Wars Celebration, Lucasfilm announced that Daisy Ridley would return as Rey for a new Star Wars movie set in a post-The Rise of Skywalker galaxy. It will be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Ms. Marvel) and written by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders).
Details as sparse about the return of Daisy Ridley in Star Wars. The story will follow her Jedi as she tries to build a new Jedi Order. No other casting has been announced for the projects. For other sequel trilogy stars, nobody else has been announced to return between all of the other projects announced today.
Daisy Ridley is reprising her role as Rey for a new Star Wars movie
Plenty of other news has come today at the event in London, including two other films to clear the dry spell of big-screen projects for the franchise. Dave Filoni will direct a movie set in his corner of the universe that ties to series like Ahsoka (which received a teaser trailer) and The Mandalorian. Logan and Indiana Jones director James Mangold will helm his film, which is set thousands of years in the past and will explore the beginning of the Jedi.
The Force Awakens was a breakout role for the star. Since debuting in the galaxy far, far away, she has also starred in Murder on the Orient Express, Chaos Walking, The Bubble, and the video game Twelve Minutes. While adding the new Star Wars movie to her schedule, Daisy Ridley has a filled-out calendar. She will lend her voice to the animated film The Inventor. She will lead in the biopic Young Woman and the Sea, which follows the first woman to swim across the English Channel. The star will have a major role in the thriller Magpie. She will join Kristin Scott Thomas (Slow Horses) and Nina Hoss (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) for the historical drama Women in the Castle. She will join Ben Mendelsohn for the thriller The Marsh King’s Daughter.