The last time we saw Rey on the big screen, she had just taken the Skywalker name. In 2023, Daisy Ridley walked onto the Star Wars Celebration stage to announce she was coming back. A new round of reports raises a question about that return: Which movie will actually pick up her story?
Rey Reportedly Has a Supporting Role Alongside Two New Leads
An October 29 report tracing the claim to industry insider Daniel Richtman describes an older Rey guiding two new lead characters in the film being called Episode X. The two newcomers would drive the story, with Ridley’s Rey playing a supporting role. Their names and whether both would train as Jedi remain unclear.
A separate set of unconfirmed character details describes one lead as a young man who grew up without parents and gets drawn into the story after he’s implicated in a killing. The other is reportedly a young woman from royalty, and the pair may have a romance. Lucasfilm has yet to announce either role or say where Rey fits into their adventure.
The mentor role would give Rey a chance to do for someone else what Leia did for her. In The Rise of Skywalker, Leia oversees Rey’s Jedi training while the Resistance is still fighting the First Order. A film about Rey teaching two people of her own could show which parts of that training she passes on and what she has to figure out for herself.
Is the New Star Wars Movie Really Episode X?
In September, Jon Watts was reported to be directing the first film in Simon Kinberg’s new trilogy. Watts co-created Star Wars: Skeleton Crew and directed the three Tom Holland Spider-Man films. Kinberg, who co-created Star Wars Rebels, is writing the script.
Lucasfilm publicly listed Kinberg’s trilogy among its projects in development in 2025. The studio has yet to announce Episode X as the title or confirm Ridley for the trilogy. For now, the episode number is shorthand for how some reports describe the film’s place in the saga.
What Happened to the Rey Movie Lucasfilm Announced?
The project Lucasfilm officially announced in 2023 was a Rey film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. It was set 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker and would follow Rey as she rebuilt the Jedi Order. George Nolfi, who co-wrote The Bourne Ultimatum, was brought on to write the film in 2025.
Recent coverage describes the standalone as on hold. Lucasfilm has yet to announce a cancellation, a release date, or a decision to fold that story into Kinberg’s trilogy. The original film would have shown Rey building a Jedi Order. If her first appearance back is as a mentor in the trilogy, one big question is whether we’ll meet her while she’s still building it or after she’s already got it up and running.