Daisy Ridley returning as Rey Skywalker in upcoming Star Wars film and we couldn’t be more excited

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Daisy Ridley is officially returning to the Star Wars universe (Picture: Alamy)

Daisy Ridley will reprise her role as Rey Skywalker in a next Star Wars film, where she will “rebuild the Jedi order.”

The announcement was made at the Star Wars Celebration festival, which is now taking place at London’s ExCel conference complex.

Daisy, 30, made her film debut as Rey in 2015’s The Force Awakens. The Force Awakens was the first Star Wars picture released since 2005’s Revenge of the Sith.

She later appears in two more films, The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, all of which were released in 2019.

Daisy appeared as Rey for the final time in The Rise of Skywalker, the ninth and, at the time, final episode of the so-called Skywalker saga.

But today’s announcement confirms that not only is the Skywalker saga ongoing, but that Rey will be at the focus of it for the foreseeable future.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the upcoming film’s director, made the announcement, asking the audience, ‘Who wants to meet the Jedi master?’

Daisy went out onto the platform to enormous yells and enthusiastic acclaim, and the audience couldn’t believe their eyes.

The film’s development has been challenging, with original writers Damon Lindelof and Justin Brett-Gibson stepping down in February.

Patty Jenkins, the director of Wonder Woman, was revealed as the director by Lucasfilm CEO Kathleen Kennedy in December 2020.

However, those plans were drastically altered when the film was removed from Disney’s 2023 calendar, but it now appears to be back on track.

The picture will be released with a number of other Star Wars films, including one by Thor: Ragnarock director Taika Waititi.

Daisy returned to Instagram earlier this week after abandoning the platform in 2016 after getting hate for supporting gun violence victims.

She admitted in 2021 that she felt she’d ‘pop a vein’ from crying so hard after The Rise of Skywalker wrapped.

She said: ‘Obviously not to say that it was like grieving, but it was grieving something. I’ll always have it, and we’re all bonded by this incredible thing.’

 

Source My Celebrity Life.

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