By Just over a year ago came the news that Daisy Ridley would return to the “Star Wars” franchise with a new film set fifteen years after the events of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”.
“Ms. Marvel” director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is helming the film in which Rey is trying to establish a new Jedi Order after the fall of the First Order and Emperor Palpatine once and for all.
Now, in a new interview with Sirius XM, Obaid-Chinoy spoke about what drew her to the project. She’s previously indicated Rey’s journey as a female Jedi is the story that interests her most.
In the new interview, she says Rey will very much be the center of the film and she’s spoken with all the key “Star Wars” creators of recent times for advice:
“Sometimes you walk in the footsteps of people and giants who’ve created worlds and in the case of “Star Wars,” George Lucas’s world and the filmmakers that have walked in his footsteps have set this world that they want young viewers to sort of walk into and have an understanding of the world.
At the heart of it, for me, is Rey Skywalker, is Daisy Ridley and her story and taking her on an adventure to a Jedi Academy. And sort of creating a world that is a natural dovetail to the story we’ve seen her go through the last three episodes.
[It’s] working with Lucasfilm and Kathleen Kennedy and the team over there in breathing life to characters that everyone loves and has fallen in love with and finding new characters that the next generation of movie goers will fall in love with.
I’ve had conversations with J.J. Abrams, and I’ve had conversations with George Lucas and, of course, Dave Filoni, who’s a big part of the Star Wars universe now, we speak very often, and Kathleen Kennedy, and Carrie Beck, and Simon Emanuel.”
Separately she also spoke with Variety about the toxic side of “Star Wars” fandom which has already targeted the project well before filming has begun with claims of woke-ism and dredging up of out-of-context comments she made in the past suggesting she wanted to “make men uncomfortable”.
Asked about that darker aspect of the fandom, she responded with a quite diplomatic answer:
“The greatest thing about ‘Star Wars’ is that everyone has a personal connection to it. Everyone is passionate about it.
Throughout the fandom, people have clear ideas about who should direct or what the stories should be about. I’m just drowning out those voices until I’m done.
As a storyteller, I’m focused on drawing new moviegoers into the cinema, and bringing a sense of nostalgia that will appeal to older fans of the series.”
The new film is rumoured to be titled “New Jedi Order” and doesn’t have a release date at present.
Source: SFFGazette
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