Announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023, Rey’s New Jedi Order film will take place 15 years after the events of the sequels and will follow her attempt to rebuild the Jedi Order, and Kathleen Kennedy explained why it will be different.
In an interview with IGN, Kennedy hinted at how critical the texts will be in Rey’s Jedi Order and highlighted the questions the movie will address.
Well, we’re 15 years out from [The] Rise of Skywalker, so we’re post-war, post-First Order, and the Jedi are in disarray, and there’s a lot of discussion around who are the Jedi, what are they doing, what’s the state of the galaxy? And she’s attempting to rebuild the Jedi Order based on the books, based on what she promised Luke. So that’s where we’re going.
And you mentioned Luke, and I think he almost seemed like almost a cautionary tale [for the Jedi] in the most recent trilogy. Will we see any of that play with Rey at all?
Kathleen Kennedy: I don’t know if we’ll spend a lot of time in flashbacks or Force ghosts or things like that, but certainly the spirit of what he represents to her is going to be significant.
And as you mentioned, it’s 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker. So the other two films, do you see them more as standalone movies?
Kathleen Kennedy: Oh yeah. When we say standalone now, a lot of the storytelling, as you can see in the work that we’ve been doing in television, we started as a standalone idea and then it’s grown. And I think the potential of that could happen in these different eras of the timeline. But I don’t want to make a commitment to that until we really get into it and see how it plays.
Reports suggest the untitled film will start filming at Pinewood Studios in April 2024 — more as we get it.
