The 6-Year Journey To Rey’s New Story

Star Wars is formally releasing the primary new Rey Skywalker story in six years with an upcoming Audible Authentic, however why has it taken so lengthy? As a result of be launched in October, Star Wars: The Jaws of Jakku is about within the aftermath of Star Wars: The Final Jedi and can see Rey and Finn return to Rey’s homeworld, the place they will bond with a younger woman on a harmful mission.

Written by Cavan Scott and carried out by Helen Sadler, The Jaws of Jakku will not be advised from Rey’s perspective. As a substitute, it is advised from the viewpoint of Rey and Finn’s new younger buddy, as they embark on a journey via Jakku’s dark underground tunnels and study extra about themselves, and probably the Drive, within the course of.

Whereas Rey hasn’t been fully absent from Star Wars for the reason that launch of 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, she’s by no means appeared in a brand-new story. This differs from Kylo Ren, as an example, whose journey between The Final Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker is at the moment being explored within the comedian collection Star Wars: Legacy of Vader, by Charles Soule, Nolan Woodard, and Luke Ross.

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Lucasfilm Did not Know What To Do With The Sequel Characters

When The Rise of Skywalker was launched, it cemented the divisive legacy of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. The arc wasn’t totally deliberate from the start, and a big a part of the viewers wasn’t responding to the story; what was Lucasfilm to do? Clearly, Star Wars has been biding its time, looking for the proper method to reintroduce sequel trilogy characters like Rey and Finn to a wider viewers.

This is not the primary time we have witnessed Lucasfilm holding again on creating characters or an unknown period of the Star Wars timeline. When the proper narrative course stays unclear, the artistic staff locks down the characters and ideas till the perfect path ahead reveals itself.

That is, largely, why the post-Return of the Jedi period, now often known as the New Republic era and dominated by productions like The Mandalorian and Ahsoka, went largely unexplored till the launch of Disney+ in 2019. Now, that stretch of the timeline has grow to be Star Wars’ main mild, culminating within the franchise’s return to theaters with 2026’s The Mandalorian and Grogu.

Whereas Rey’s renaissance started with the announcement of the tentatively titled Star Wars: New Jedi Order film in 2023, the upcoming publication of The Jaws of Jakku proves that Star Wars is dedicated to revisiting and creating its final remaining Jedi. Jakku is a serious a part of Rey’s story, in spite of everything, and has significantly influenced how she conducts herself as a Jedi and sees herself as an individual.

Star Wars Now Is aware of The place Rey’s Story Is Going

A quick pattern of The Jaws of Jakku gives an honest thought of the place the story is headed. The younger woman Rey and Finn meet is clearly obsessive about the Jedi, with Rey because the final pillar left of a dying Order. After Luke Skywalker’s loss of life, Rey turned “the” Jedi, the one meant to hold on the legacy and unfold the Jedi’s message throughout the galaxy.

On condition that New Jedi Order is about to happen 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker, there is a sense that Lucasfilm is lastly prepared to maneuver on from the load of all that has come earlier than. Rey could have adopted the Skywalker title, however she will be able to carve out a brand new future for herself, altering what it means to be a Jedi and pushing the franchise into a brand new period.

The Jaws of Jakku can present us the beginnings of Rey’s coaching journey. By the point The Rise of Skywalker begins, she’s clearly practiced with Leia for some time, having honed her connection to the Drive and her dueling abilities. What occurred in between that, although, and the way has that affected her stance on the Jedi’s mission?

Will We Get One other Jedi From Jakku?

The Jaws of Jakku would not simply mark the beginning of a brand new exploration of Rey’s character, nevertheless. It might additionally doubtlessly be the beginning of the New Jedi Order story. The Audible pattern has the narrator character, the younger woman Rey finds on Jakku, waxing lyrical concerning the Jedi and the way they stood as much as Emperor Palpatine’s tyranny.

What if The Jaws of Jakku is not only a cute, one-off story about Rey assembly a brand new buddy? What if this new buddy turns into the primary recruit to Rey’s new Jedi Order? Having this younger woman uncover her Drive skills within the story can be a pleasant method to parallel Rey’s character arc and discover the hidden, untapped depths of Jakku.

Chuck Wendig’s “Aftermath” trilogy did reveal that Palpatine had constructed a hidden observatory on Jakku, in spite of everything. The Drive could possibly be hiding any variety of secrets and techniques there, and the synopsis for The Jaws of Jakku suggests as a lot, even going as far as to suggest Rey will get her first glimpse of Palpatine’s return on the dusty desert planet:

Following the occasions of The Final Jedi, Rey struggles to let go of her lonely childhood on the desert planet of Jakku. Hoping to have a breakthrough in her Jedi coaching, she returns to her dwelling world with Finn and BB-8 in tow. After they meet a younger woman on a harmful mission to save lots of her household, they journey via pitch-black tunnels beneath the sand the place they encounter scurrying gnaw-jaws, a haunting terror from the previous, and possibly—simply possibly—hope for all of them.

Many revealed Star Wars tales present further context with out being mandatory to grasp the franchise’s foremost narrative throughline. The Jaws of Jakku could possibly be one such story.

Clearly, Star Wars is discovering its theatrical footing once more after just a few divisive (however financially profitable) years, and it appears to be like just like the sequel trilogy’s characters, particularly Rey, might nonetheless have a brilliant and thrilling future forward of them.

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Mark Hamill, James Earl Jones, David Prowse, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Ian McDiarmid, Ewan McGregor, Rosario Dawson, Lars Mikkelsen, Rupert Buddy, Moses Ingram, Frank Oz, Pedro Pascal

TV Present(s)

The Mandalorian, Andor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, The Acolyte, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Lando, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Star Wars: Resistance, Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures, Star Wars: Visions

Film(s)

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II – Assault of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Again, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Drive Awakens, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Final Jedi, Star Wars: Episode IX- The Rise of Skywalker, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: Daybreak of the Jedi, Star Wars: New Jedi Order

Character(s)

Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Rey Skywalker, Emperor Palpatine / Darth Sidious, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Grand Inquisitor, Reva (The Third Sister), The Fifth Brother, The Seventh Sister, The Eighth Brother, Yoda, Din Djarin, Grogu, Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, Leia Organa, Ben Solo/Kylo Ren