‘Star Wars’ Script Featuring Rey is About Six Weeks to Completion
The Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy-directed Star Wars movie has had its initial script written by Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson, and revised by Steven Knight, but despite being formally announced at Star Wars Celebration a few days ago, the script needs a little bit of work before it’s able to start shooting. The story of the film will feature Daisy Ridley as Rey Skywalker in a pivotal role in a narrative set 15 years after the end of the sequel trilogy.
In an interview with Yahoo, Kathleen Kennedy has revealed that progress on the new Rey-centric Star Wars film is pretty far along, though the script hasn’t yet been completed. By Kennedy’s estimates, the script — or at least the current draft — will likely be done in roughly 45 days, or six weeks and change:
“We’ve been working on that [film] for a few years and all of that feeds in to our overall storytelling. So we’ve just got to a point now where we’ve got a wonderful writer in Steven Knight, he’s come on board and we’re going to see a script probably in the next month and a half that we’ve been working on for quite a while. So we’re getting close.”
In practical terms, that means the script ought to be finished by about May 25 or thereabouts. Writer Steven Knight will likely have plenty of time to get his work done and then shift focus to the screenplay on the Vertigo remake that he’s also developing, though of course, he will presumably also be involved with further revisions.
So the project, showcasing Rey picking up where Luke Skywalker left off and rebuilding the Jedi Order from the ashes of the last one, is clearly something that Lucasfilm has been developing for a while. However, Kennedy notes that the project didn’t have a definitive “tipping point” leading to its creation; it just sort of came together as a result of a number of conversations about where to take some of the sequel trilogy’s story threads and characters next:
“There’s never a time where something is just instantly suggested. It’s such an evolution of conversations that we have all the time and we knew coming off of The Rise of Skywalker that we needed to take that further. We just didn’t know how far out; we didn’t know exactly what the story might be – but now we have a much better idea.”
Whether that idea involves other returning Star Wars characters, both major and minor, remains to be seen. Although, in her own words, “It’s entirely possible to see some people come back.”
The next Star Wars movies are currently scheduled to release on December 19, 2025, and December 17, 2027. It is expected, but not confirmed, that the movie starring Rey will take the former date.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
