Daisy Ridley’s Star Wars Movie Gets Updated Filming Window Following New Writer Hire

After a couple of setbacks, Lucasfilm is getting ready to bring Daisy Ridley‘s Rey Skywalker back to the big screen with a new Star Wars adventure.

Announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023, the new Ridley-led Star Wars movie, which is being developed under the title New Jedi Order, was at one point slated to begin filming in late 2024. However, following the departure of Steven Knight as screenwriter in October 2024, insider Jeff Sneider reported that the filming start date for the movie had been pushed back “well into 2025 at least.” Four months later, with a new screenwriter hired for New Jedi Order, trusted scooper Daniel Richtman has revealed the updated filming window for the highly-anticipated Star Wars movie.

What is the new filming window for Daisy Ridley’s Star Wars movie?

According to Richtman on his Patreon, the “Rey movie [is] now filming next year,” meaning that New Jedi Order’s filming start date has been pushed to the start of 2026. The scooper also revealed that the movie’s new screenwriter, George Nolfi, is making “some changes to the plot.” Unfortunately, Richtman didn’t indicate how extensive the plot changes might be. When the movie was first announced, New Jedi Order was set to take place 15 years after 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, following Rey as she rebuilds the Jedi Order.

Nolfi was hired to rewrite the New Jedi Order screenplay in January 2025. He is the third screenwriter to take a crack at the script after Knight and original screenwriters Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is making her narrative feature film debut with New Jedi Order.

At one point, New Jedi Order was being primed to be the next Star Wars movie to hit theaters after The Mandalorian & Grogu, a feature-length continuation of Disney+’s The Mandalorian. However, THR reported in January 2025 that the recent creative changes on New Jedi Order have pushed the movie back on the production timeline, with the untitled movie from director Shawn Levy now expected to be “the next Star Wars movie that will shoot.”

Star Wars fans can revisit Ridley’s Rey by streaming the sequel trilogy on Disney+.