Details Emerge Surrounding New Star Wars Films

SAN ANGELO— There was A Star Wars new movie celebration over the Easter Weekend and now we have a better idea of what they’re going to be about.

"I’m Rey, Rey Skywalker."

Lucasfilm announced last week that three new Star Wars movies were on the way. Now, we have a small idea of what they will focus on.

Over the Easter Weekend, it was announced that Daisy Ridley, who played Rey in the Sequel Trilogy, is returning to the Star Wars universe in a whole new film. According to Lucasfilm President, Kathleen Kennedy, said this film is going to take play 15 years after the events of the Rise of Skywalker and Rey will be attempting to rebuild the Jedi Order.

“Well, we’re 15 years out from Rise of Skywalker, so we’re post-war, post-First Order, and the Jedi are in disarry,” said Kennedy, “There’s a lot of discussion around, ‘Who are the Jedi? What are they doing? What’s the state of the galaxy?’ She’s (Rey’s) attempted to rebuild the Jedi Order, based on the books, based on what she promised Luke, so that’s where we’re going.”

The film will be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who directed the Disney+ show “Ms. Marvel” and Steven Knight, who worked on “Peaky Blinders” is set to write the script.

Not much else is known about Ridley’s and Obaid-Chinoy’s movie at this time.

The other two films will be directed by James Mangold, who directed Logan and Walk the Line, will be taking over a film about the first Jedi to wield the Force. The film will be set 25,000 years before the events of “A New Hope” and will feature all-new characters in a time that has not been explored yet.

The third film will be directed by Dave Filoni, who led the charge on the Clone Wars tv series and the Disney+ shows. It will focus on the New Republic and be set before “The Force Awakens”.

This movie will reportedly “close out” the interconnected stories that are currently being told on Disney+ in The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and the upcoming Ahsoka series.

Filoni, along with Jon Favreau, both brought back a lot of fans with The Mandalorian after the divisive Sequel Trilogy and especially after The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker.

Then, in The Mandalorian, Boba Fett was brought back along with Ahsoka Tano in season two which spawned their spin-offs.

“Well, from a certain point of view, it could,” said Filoni, “It could build to a climactic thing and The Mandalorian could still go on. It’s not necessarily an either/or, is it? It’s an interesting way to think about it. I tend to think, as we’ve been working on The Mandalorian and then writing Ahsoka, and then Jon Watt came in with Skeleton Crew, there is an entire time period that is post-Return of the Jedi. And I look at that time period, which is before The Force Awakens, is around 30 years of time. When you look at the original trilogy, it’s a much less significant amount of time that those three movies take place in. And so, what I like is that we’re really building very slowly an ecosystem of characters and politics and events in the post-Return of the Jedi time period. And that may or may not expand in a bigger way as we add more shows to it and add more characters to it.”

Filoni has, more than likely, done the most for Star Wars outside of George Lucas with building the universe. He has created fan favorite characters like Ahsoka, Cad Bane, and Baby Yoda/Grogu and had added depth with the animated shows like The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, and The Bad Batch.

All nine movies of "The Skywalker Saga" along with The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett are currently available on Disney+ and Ahsoka will premiere this August.