STAR WARS: Kathleen Kennedy Explains How Rey Movie And "Dawn Of The Jedi" Will Be Connected

Several exciting big-screen projects were officially announced during Star Wars Celebration London earlier this year, including a movie focusing on Rey (Daisy Ridley) taking charge of a new Jedi Academy, and a film set thousands of years in the past that's been dubbed "Dawn of the Jedi."

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will helm the Rey movie, which will be set 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker, while James Mangold (Logan, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) will direct what he describes as a "Ten Commandments-style epic."

With one project taking place so many years before A New Hope and the other set generations after, will they share any connective tissue? Apparently so!

"I think what's always great about Star Wars is it's a big galaxy, and we're coming off what was a major war with the First Order," Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy tells GamesRadar+. "And now, Rey has made a promise to Luke and that's really the core of where we're going and what this story will be. And I think it offers just tremendous opportunity to introduce new characters and start with something fresh, because we culminated with what George [Lucas] was creating, and now we take all of that and move it to the next chapter."

Kennedy adds that there's been interest in an origin of the force movie "from the moment I stepped in and George brought me into the company."

"It was something that Jim [Mangold] immediately sparked to, and I think it's a really nice compliment to what we're doing with moving into the future with Rey, and then understanding a bit more of where this all came from," she explains. "Because it will be at the heart of creating the new Jedi Order, so to get a real sense of where that might have began with the dawn of the Jedi could be pretty cool."

We can't imagine these films having any characters in common, but it's not outside the realm of possibility. After all, Jedi do tend to return as Force Ghosts from time to time!