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Kennedy also described some of the big questions the movie would look to answer in an interview with IGN in April: “There’s a lot of discussion around, ‘Who are the Jedi? What are they doing? What’s the state of the galaxy?”
Fifteen years after The Rise of Skywalker would mean the movie takes place in 50 ABY (50 years after A New Hope), further into the future of Star Wars than even the final Luke, Han, and Leia adventure in the old Legends continuity, which closed the book on the original trio in 45 ABY. Rey’s new adventure will kick off the suitably named “New Jedi Order” era of the canon Star Wars timeline.
But how much longer will audiences actually have to wait to watch the future of Star Wars unfold on the big screen? Kennedy signaled that Lucasfilm was moving away from the rapid-fire, a Star Wars movie a year release schedule ambitions of the 2010s in favor of treating each new installment like a cinematic event.
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“I’ve often brought up Bond,” Kennedy told Empire. “That’s every three or four years and there wasn’t this pressure to feel like you had to have a movie every year. I feel that was very important to Star Wars. We have to eventize this.”
“It’s much better to tell the truth,” she continued, “that we’re going to make these movies when they’re ready to be made, and release them when they’re ready to be released.”
The Rey movie seems to be further along in development than Mangold and Filoni’s projects, although it was originally being written by Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson (The Strain), who left the project ahead of the Celebration announcement. Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is now penning the script for Obaid-Chinoy.
