Lucasfilm confirmed plans to bring back Daisy Ridley’s Rey Skywalker for an upcoming project. Billie Lourd shared willingness to join her ‘Star Wars’ sequel trilogy co-star and play Connix or any other role in the future films following the news. She recently told ComicBook.com:
“Bring back Connix! I would love to bring back Connix. I would love to be involved in the universe in any way possible. I love being an ambassador. I wrote an essay, ‘The Keeper of Leia,’ and I love playing that role. I’m also obsessed, I’m a fangirl. I would do anything. I’ll be a creature, I’ll do whatever, run a droid and do the controls from behind the scenes. Anything I can do to be involved in this universe, I would do, because I just adore it so much.”
The upcoming film’s plot details remain under wraps, but Rey is set to rebuild the Jedi Order post-‘The Rise of Skywalker’ in it. It is still not clear if the story has room for other Resistance members’ return.
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‘New Jedi Order’ is expected to come out in 2026, and Ridley is excited to reprise her role for it. She told Empire Online in late April:
“Coming in a bit more eyes wide open, I suppose I feel more like I’m owning it. I suppose I owned it the first time. Basically, I’m an adult now. I certainly did not feel like an adult at the time. Obviously, personally, things have changed, and professionally, I’ve had lots of other experiences, so I definitely feel like it’s a different thing this time. There’s just a lot of joy with me and these films. Honestly, if I wasn’t excited, I wouldn’t have done it. It feels like a great thing to be part of.”
Lucasfilm is also planning a film about the Jedi’s early days with director James Mangold and working on another one that follows ‘The Mandalorian.’
Meanwhile, the first live-action from the High Republic era, ‘The Acolyte,’ is waiting for release in June.
