Despite the fast-tracking of Shawn Levy’s standalone Star Warsmovie with Ryan Gosling in talks to star, the Daisy Ridley Rise of Skywalker sequel is getting another pass, this time by writer George Nolfi.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy still is attached to direct the story about Rey Skywalker, set 15 years after the events of 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. The plot is rumored that Rey, the granddaughter of Emperor Palpatine, will oversee a school of Jedis.
Previous scribes on the Rey story included Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson. Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight also was making a go at it in April 2023 but stepped away in October.
Ridley told Deadline at SXSW last year that “I know bits and bobs” about the sequel. “I know there’s an introduction of new characters,” the actress said, “I don’t know about previous characters” — and that includes her twin flame Kylo Ren.
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Nolfi directed such movies as The Adjustment Bureau, Elevation, The Banker and Birth of the Dragon. He also wrote Ocean’s 12 and The Bourne Ultimatum.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Episode VII, which blasted Ridley off to the world as Rey, is the highest-grossing movie of all time at the domestic box office with $936.6M and the fifth-biggest at $2.07 billion worldwide. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Force Awakens. The Episode VII through IX Star Wars movies, which feature Rey, altogether have raked in $4.47 billion.
THR first had the news on Nolfi.
Reports: Deadline
