Webdesk: Walt Disney announced plans for three new Star Wars movies on Friday in Los Angeles. In one of them, Daisy Ridley will play a Jedi hero in a galaxy far, far away for the second time.
Ridley will play her character, Rey, in a story that takes place 15 years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker, which will be released in 2019. Disney said that the next Star Wars movie will be about rebuilding the New Jedi Order as forces rise to destroy it.
At the annual Star Wars Celebration fan convention in London, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy announced the new projects. The actress then took the stage to confirm that she would be back in the blockbuster series.
Moreover, In 2012, Disney paid $4 billion for Lucasfilm, the company that made the Star Wars movies. From 2015 to 2019, Disney released three hit movies and several TV shows on its Disney+ streaming service.
While, Fans were eager to find out where Star Wars would go on the big screen.
After Rise of Skywalker, the company stopped making new Star Wars movies. Rogue Squadron, a movie that supposed to come out this year. A few others that in the early stages of production cancelled.
Kennedy said that the second of the three new movies will go back in time to tell the story of the first Jedi who used the Force.
The third book will take place in the present day and tell the story of a war between the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic that is getting worse. Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau, who made the popular Star Wars TV show The Mandalorian, will be in charge of it.
No dates for when the movies would come out were given.