Daisy Ridley will reprise her role as Rey in one of the 3 new 'Star Wars' films

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As the Star Wars celebration happens, we get to hear more about Disney and Lucasfilm's plans for the franchise. One of the latest updates includes three new films coming at an unspecified time. One of the new movies will have Daisy Ridley reprising her role as Rey. The movie will take place 15 years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker, which was the final film in the Skywalker saga and the most recent Star Wars movie and focuses on Rey forming a new Jedi Order. Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Ms. Marvel and Saving Face) will direct the film.

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Daisy Ridley is ready to hang up her lightsaber after ‘Episode IX’

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While we know that a new Star Wars trilogy is heading our way in the future, there might be one face we won’t see then. Actress Daisy Ridley, who plays Rey in the sequel trilogy, is ready to give up the role after Episode IX is done. Speaking to Rolling Stone she says, "I am really, really excited to do the third thing and round it out, because ultimately, what I was signing on to was three films. So in my head, it's three films. I think it will feel like the right time to round it out."

But the actress also isn’t completely ruling out showing up somewhere down the line in a similar manner as her co-stars Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, and Mark Hamill did. "Who knows? I honestly feel like the world may end in the next 30 years, so, if in 30 years we are not living underground in a series of interconnected cells ... then sure," she said. "Maybe." If we keep the planet alive by then, and there are more Star Wars films to be made, then perhaps we’ll get our wish.

Netflix gets ‘subversive’ superhero movie starring Daisy Ridley, Josh Gad, & Luke Evans

From left: Josh Gad, Daisy Ridley, Luke Evans (Getty Images)

Netflix one-ups Disney as it outbids the studio for rights to stream a new “subversive” superhero film starring Star Wars’s Daisy Ridley. Super-Normal is meant to be a character-driven, subversive take on the popular genre so it garnered instant interest. The film is being produced by Beauty and the Beast’s Josh Gad alongside It producer Dan Lin, who is also involved in Netflix’s Death Note. Gad seems to be enlisting another friend as Luke Evans will also be starring alongside him and Ridley. Evans actually helped Gad pitch the project. Gad also enlisted the help of brothers Aaron and Jordan Kandell, who both worked on Disney’s Moana, to write the script.

Source: Engadget + The Hollywood Reporter