10 Recent Star Wars Truths We've Just Found Out
5. Helen Mirren Was Being Eyed To Play An Older Rey In New Movie Set Six Decades After Sequels
Along with Dave Filoni's upcoming Mando-verse feature, two other rather intriguing movies were announced at this year's Star Wars Celebration Europe: James Mangold's Dawn of the Jedi flick and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s film centred around the rebuilding of the Jedi Order after the Sequel Trilogy.
When it comes to that latter big-screen project in particular, news of Daisy Ridley returning to the galaxy far, far away as Rey in Obaid-Chinoy's picture arguably sat as the most unexpected development of the entire weekend. But this wasn't always the plan, according to recent reports.
Back when Damon Lindelof was still attached to write the project with co-writer Justin Britt-Gibson, it was recently noted by industry insider Jeff Sneider on John Rocha's podcast (via Comicbookmovie.com) that the film was going to be set 60 years on from the events of The Rise of Skywalker.
And rather than have Ridley return as Rey via some digital effects wizardry, the plan was to try and get Helen Mirren to play an older version of the Jedi Master, though the role wasn't officially offered to the legendary thespian before plans changed.
This original screenplay would have also seen Rey focusing on training two Jedi, a man and a woman. Though much of that initial plan appears to have very much changed with the arrival of Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight as the film's new writer, as reported by Variety.