Lucasfilm is planning three new live-action Star Wars features which will see Daisy Ridley return as Rey and Pakistani director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy become the first woman and person of colour to direct a feature in the canon.
Speaking at Star Wars Celebration in London on Friday Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy identified James Mangold (Logan, upcoming Cannes world premiere Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny), Dave Filoni (The Mandalorian, Ahsoka) and Oscar winner Obaid-Chinoy (Ms Marvel, Saving Face) as the three directors.
Obaid-Chinoy will direct from a screenplay by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) in what will be the first Star Wars feature since 2019’s Episode IX – The Rise Of Skywalker. It takes place some years after events in that film as Rey builds a new Jedi Order.
Obaid-Chinoy has won two documentary short Oscars for Saving Face in 2012, and A Girl In The River: The Price Of Forgiveness in 2016.
Mangold’s film will be set some 25,000 years before any Star Wars story and focus on the origins of The Force.
Filoni will centre on the New Republic in a feature that wraps up the connected stories from The Mandalorian, The Book Of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, and other Disney+ series.
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