New Rey film is "a really fantastic exploration of the Star Wars world"

Lucasfilm has had a lot of trouble getting a new Star Wars movie off the ground since 2019's The Rise of Skywalker. Rian Johnson's Star Wars trilogy is on hold. A trilogy from Game of Thrones David Benioff and Dan Weiss was shelved. A Rogue Squadron movie from Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was canned. A Star Wars movie from Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige went kaput. Damon Lindelof got kicked off a Star Wars film. I could keep going. It's a mess over there.

So when I heard that Daisy Ridley was returning to make a new movie about Rey, her character from the Star Wars sequel trilogy, my main reaction was, "It's not true until there's a trailer." But Ridley is out here talking it up, so maybe this one actually has a chance to go the distance.

Speaking to AlloCiné, Ridley teased a different kind of Star Wars movie. “So I thought about it for a little bit, and once I knew what the story was and everything, I knew it was something I really wanted to do,” she said. “I think it’s a really fantastic exploration of the Star Wars world. It’s a really cool way of taking the story on in a bit of a different direction.”

Maybe Rey will rebuild the Jedi Order? Maybe she'll go back to junk scavenging? If she ends up fighting yet another crypto-fascist space empire the people of the Star Wars galaxy need to take a hard look at themselves.

Another question we always have to ask when talking about movies made after 2010 or so: is it setting up a new trilogy? “I know the storyline for one film," Ridley told Collider. "That’s not to say that that’s all it is, but that’s what I was told about. And I imagine it will be the next film, I think. I mean, again, I don’t know, post strikes and everything, how quickly everything will start up again. But yes, so far, I know the story of one film and I think people will be very excited.”

At this point, one new Star Wars film would be pretty impressive.

Star Wars actor Ray Stevenson left off In Memoriam segment during the Emmys

Speaking of Star Wars, fans who watched the 75th Annual Emmy Awards the other night noticed something upsetting: Ray Stevenson, who had roles in both Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Ahsoka, didn't appear in the In Memoriam segment, despite dying in 2023 at the age of 58.

Folks also noticed that Jerry Springer was left off the tribute, which is weird considering how much influence he had on TV in the '90s and 2000s. If the Emmys can't remember them, I guess it's up to us.

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