At Star Wars Celebration 2023, we learned that Daisy Ridley would be returning as Rey Skywalker in a new Star Wars movie. The film will take place after Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), but according to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy we should be expecting a more standalone adventure rather than one that is a direct sequel or features explicit connections to the preceding films.

In an interview with IGN, Kennedy gave all the details about the upcoming movie.

“Well, we’re 15 years out from Rise of Skywalker, so we’re post war, post First Order, and the Jedi are in disarray. There’s a lot of discussion around, ‘Who are the Jedi? What are they doing? What’s the state of the galaxy? 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.”

Kennedy said she isn’t sure whether the movie would spend much time with Luke Skywalker in flashbacks or with force ghosts, but that “certainly the spirit of what he represents to her is going to be significant.”

We can also expect more Star Wars movies from other films and media in the many different eras. 

“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 start it as a standalone idea, and then it’s grown. 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.”

“…it’s a format in which George was inspired when he first did Star Wars serialized storytelling and so when we got into the television space and realized we had this kind of long-form storytelling that we could get into it was really conducive to Star Wars and it’s given us a lot of flexibility opportunity to experiment we knew we needed to introduce new characters, new storylines, and we could do that without the huge expectation of a movie and now we’re ready to move back into the movie space, and it’s really exciting.”