We might not have had a fresh Star Wars movie since 2019, but there's been no shortage of movie news flying in from that galaxy far, far away in rec
We might not have had a fresh Star Wars movie since 2019, but there’s been no shortage of movie news flying in from that galaxy far, far away in recent months. There’s been talk of a fresh Simon Kinberg trilogy, confirmation that James Mangold’s Dawn Of The Jedi will be set 25,000 years before The Phantom Menace, and even the curveball potential casting of Ryan Gosling in Shawn Levy’s secretive Star Wars project. And now THR are reporting that Disney’s New Jedi Order movie with Daisy Ridley has brought aboard Ocean’s Twelve and The Bourne Ultimatum writer George Nolfi.
As you may recall, back in October we reported that director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s hotly anticipated movie — a film set 15 years after the events of The Rise Of Skywalker that is expected to centre around a now-Jedi Master Rey as she trains up a, well, fresh Jedi Order — had lost screenwriter Steven Knight. Then, not even a month later, we learned that Disney and Lucasfilm had removed an untitled Star Wars movie from its December 2026 slate, leading to cacophonous online speculation over the future of Obaid-Chinoy’s film. With that in mind, the hiring of a fresh scribe — and a sure pair of hands like The Adjustment Bureau and The Banker writer-director Nolfi especially — comes as a welcome sign that this isn’t destined to become just another electrifying Star Wars project that’s fallen by the wayside. (A moment’s silence for Patty Jenkins’ on, delayed, sort-of off, very off, currently sort-of-on-again Rogue Squadron movie please.)
Now, with Jon Favreau’s recently wrapped The Mandalorian & Grogu still on track to hit its 22 May, 2026 theatrical release date and Shawn Levy’s potential Ryan Gosling project now being positioned to fill that once-scrubbed Christmas 2026 spot in Disney’s release schedule, it may still be a wee while before we see the large screen return of Daisy Ridley as Rey Skywalker. But good things come to those who wait, and if New Jedi Order (as both social media and entertainment outlets alike seem to have collectively christened it) winds up landing in multiplexes in 2027, then we’ll have waited a long four years for it. Be with me (New Jedi Order), be with me (New Jedi Order), be with me (New Jedi Order)… well, it was worth a shot, wasn’t it?
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