Overview
- Damon Lindelof has publicly said he was hired by Lucasfilm to write the Rey-focused New Jedi Order movie and was removed from the project after roughly two years of work.
- Lindelof described his premise as a meta story that reframed the light and dark sides of the Force as a conflict between nostalgia and revision, calling it a 'Protestant Reformation inside Star Wars.'
- He said Lucasfilm appeared to like the basic idea but the writing stalled because the team could not lock the right tone, place the story clearly inside canon, or decide if it would launch a new trilogy.
- The Rey film has been in limbo for years with multiple writers attached and no production start, and Daisy Ridley's promised return from Celebration 2023 has not yet materialized.
- Industry observers say the franchise's next moves will likely hinge on how other Star Wars projects perform at the box office and in culture, with The Mandalorian/Grogu film seen as a key test of what will become the series' new center.