Daisy Ridley Returns as Rey in New "Star Wars" Movie

English actress Daisy Ridley is set to reprise her role as the Jedi Knight Rey in a new "Star Wars" movie.

Ridley first debuted as Rey in 2015's "Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens", ushering in a new generation of Star Wars fans alongside other fresh faces including Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, and John Boyega.

The trilogy also featured the return of familiar characters such as Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher's Leia Organa, and Harrison Ford's Han Solo as the original trio helped the new one attempt to bring order to both the galaxy and themselves.

Ridley's Star Wars trilogy wrapped in 2019, following 2017's "The Force Awakens, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi" and 2019's “Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker”.

The movie follows the events of "The Rise of Skywalker" and focuses on Rey as she builds a new Jedi Order. Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will direct the project from a script by Steven Knight.

It marks several major milestones for the franchise: Obaid-Chinoy is the first woman and the first person of color to direct a “Star Wars” movie. 

The filmmaker won two Academy Awards for documentary shorts, in 2011 for “Saving Face” and in 2015 for “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,” and she most recently directed two episodes of “Ms. Marvel” for Disney+.

The untitled project is one of three in a new series, directed by Obaid-Chinoy as well as James Mangold, and Dave Filoni.

Knight stepped in to pen the movie after the original screenwriters, Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson, departed the project in February — the latest example of high-profile creatives departing a feature project of the space-western franchise months (or even years) after their involvement was first reported.

In December 2020, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy announced that “Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins would helm the first post-“Rise of Skywalker” feature, titled “Star Wars: Rogue Squadron”. It was scheduled to open in December 2023, but after years of zero progress on the project, Disney pulled the movie from its schedule in September. In March, it was reported that the project was no longer in active development at Lucasfilm.

A similar fate befell an untitled “Star Wars” movie to be produced by Kevin Feige, chief of Lucasfilm’s corporate sibling Marvel Studios. News broke of Feige’s involvement in September 2019, and the project was active as recently as May 2022. However, sources revealed that Lucasfilm has since shelved the project and it was no longer in active development.

Alongside the new movie, Taika Waititi is also developing a “Star Wars” movie in which he would direct and star. Shawn Levy is still attached to directing a “Star Wars” movie following his work on Marvel’s “Deadpool 3” and the Netflix limited series “All the Light We Cannot See”.