A recent report from The Hollywood Reporter offers that Daisy Ridley is the future of the Star Wars franchise, but I’m calling that complete bullshit.
The fact is, if Daisy Ridley was the future of Star Wars, we would already have had a new Daisy Ridley Star Wars movie.
The fact is, if Daisy Ridley was the future of Star Wars, the franchise wouldn’t have gone on a 5+ year hiatus (just like I first said it would).
The fact is, if Daisy Ridley was the future of Star Wars, her Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy movie that is “supposed” to come out wouldn’t be in development hell.
Update: Disney has yanked the 2026 release date.
Lucasfilm press release: We want Rey back to save our jobs!
The article at THR is laughable because it reads like a press release put out by Daisy Ridley’s talent manager, her PR team, and the bozos at Lucasfilm who have ruined Star Wars and are now scrambling to save their jobs.
This includes Kathleen Kennedy, who everyone hopes will be out the door by the time Bob Iger exits in 2026 (though her exit should have happened much sooner).
What the article is trying to do is convince fans that suck up everything – like the Star Wars Redditor bozos – that Daisy Ridley and Rey “Skywalker” are the most “coveted” thing in the Star Wars movie “arsenal.” It’s a puff piece trying to convince clueless exes at Disney that Rey is the future of Star Wars.
It’s hilarious. She’s not.
“Rey Skywalker” is not the future of Star Wars
Daisy Ridley and “Rey Skywalker” are actually the epitome of everything fans despise about Disney, Lucasfilm, Kennedy, and Star Wars.
She symbolizes the destruction of George Lucas’ two trilogies and the undermining of 40 years’ worth of storytelling.
Under “Rey Skywalker,” fans witnessed Han Solo’s death, were denied a reunion of the original cast, never got to see Master Luke truly take charge, and faced the biggest FU of all—the trilogy’s “villain” ultimately identifying as the “hero.”
You’ll note the article was published after news broke that Simon Kinberg is developing a new Star Wars Trilogy (note: Captain Marvel ruined X-Men: Dark Phoenix).
Details are slim, but I am betting it’s minus Daisy Ridley and Rey and will feature a male protagonist (thank you, Trump!). The article also also follows Ridley being announced on a new Martin Campbell non-Star Wars movie — so when exactly is Ridley supposed to do that Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Star Wars???
Rey/Ridley shills in full force
THR’s article notes that the Kinberg Star Wars trilogy is “on a collision course with the Rey stand-alone movie” and includes quotes from someone obviously in Ridley’s camp, again trying to convince execs and fans to stick with Rey: “She is the most valuable cinematic asset, in some ways maybe the only one, Star Wars has right now.”
Another: “Rey is set to play a role in several movies that are being developed, although which ones remains unclear.”
Another: “Rey, created in the post-Lucas era, is arguably the only entity with currency on the big screen now. ‘The closet is a little bare.’”
Lucasfilm is completely clueless – correct
The article continues and does get things right, as “sources” offer Lucasfilm is completely clueless.
“You’re being asked to create the new New Testament,” said a source THR claims to have worked on previous movies. “And no one can agree on anything and there’s a lot of second-guessing about meanings.”
Another source actually explains – without saying it – why continuing with Daisy Ridley as Rey won’t work: “Star Wars is a nostalgia-based enterprise, and they are running out of ways to create nostalgia.”
The fact is, there is no nostalgia with Rey. They blew it with the Disney Trilogy by not correctly passing the baton. They also blew it by not developing characters and characters that had potential were cast to the side (sorry, John Boyega!).
“To make stand-alone movies or continuing the Skywalker Saga in any form is a fundamental question the company faces as it tries to move forward,” says a source for THR.
If by continuing the “Skywalker Saga” you mean Daisey Ridley as Rey — yep! we don’t want it!
