Kathleen Kennedy Explains That ‘Dawn of the Jedi’ and The Next Rey Skywalker Film Will Connect
The biggest news coming out of Star Wars Celebration 2023 was that Daisy Ridley would be returning to the franchise as Rey Skywalker.
The upcoming film will focus on Rey rebuilding the Jedi Order, fulfilling her promise made to Luke Skywalker.
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Rey Will Rebuild The Jedi Order
With Luke now gone, Rey must move the story of the Jedi forward.
According to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, this will allow Star Wars to get a fresh start.
“I think what’s always great about Star Wars is it’s a big galaxy, and we’re coming off what was a major war with the First Order,” Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy tells GamesRadar+.
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER/Daisy Ridley as Rey
“And now, Rey has made a promise to Luke and that’s really the core of where we’re going and what this story will be. And I think it offers just tremendous opportunity to introduce new characters and start with something fresh, because we culminated with what George [Lucas] was creating, and now we take all of that and move it to the next chapter.”
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Dawn of the Jedi
Also announced at Star Wars Celebration was a new film from Logan director James Mangold. That film will take viewers back to the dawn of the Jedi Order and the origins of the force.
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While Mangold and Ridley’s films may not have much in common on paper, Kennedy insists that the former will help inform the latter.
“It was something that Jim [Mangold] immediately sparked to, and I think it’s a really nice compliment to what we’re doing with moving into the future with Rey, and then understanding a bit more of where this all came from,” she explains. “Because it will be at the heart of creating the new Jedi Order, so to get a real sense of where that might have began with the dawn of the Jedi could be pretty cool.”
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Taking Star Wars forwards and backward will be a tall task for Lucasfilm, but one that could finally set the franchise’s feature films back on course.
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