2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker may have wrapped up the Skywalker Saga that had been going ever since the Star Wars franchise launched in 1977 with A New Hope , but that doesn’t mean we’re done spending time with characters from the concluding Sequel Trilogy. For a little over a year and a half, we’ve known that Daisy Ridley is reprising Rey in the upcoming Star Wars movie being directed by Ms. Marvel ’s Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.
However, it was also reported last week that Simon Kinberg is set to produce a trilogy of movies, and now new information’s come in alleging that there’s infighting over at Lucasfilm about where Rey will end up being seen again. It hasn’t been clarified yet if Kinberg’s Star Wars movies will be set after The Rise of Skywalker or be more of a standalone thing, and per THR , the availability of Rey is the main reason for this. The outlet reports that Ridley’s character is “key to the franchise’s next turn,” meaning that even though Kinberg’s trilogy is in the early story conception stage, this may result in it clashing with what Obaid-Chinoy is putting together for her sole movie.
Although the insiders who spoke with THR denied that there’s a “battle” over Rey, they did make it clear there’s “internal deliberation” about what to do with her next, with one insider saying: She is the most valuable cinematic asset, in some ways maybe the only one, Star Wars has right now. Keep in mind that although The Mandalor.
