Lucasfilm Head Kathleen Kennedy Shares ‘Star Wars’ Updates On Status Of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Season 2, Rian Johnson & Taika Waititi Projects
etcanada.com“Star Wars” fans have received a lot of news coming out of Star Wars Celebration Europe, being held this weekend in London. On Friday, Daisy Ridley made a surprise appearance, revealing she’d be reprising the role of Rey in an upcoming movie set in the wake of “The Last Jedi”.
Speaking with Variety, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy explained how Ridley wound up onstage in London. “It was a pretty straightforward phone call,” Kennedy said. “I started out by just saying, ‘Hey, I think we’re getting near being ready.’ We’ve been talking a lot about what we’re doing in the movie space and I said, ‘I think we’re getting close to being ready.
How would you like to go to Celebration?’ That was really the beginning of it. She was out of her mind excited.” READ MORE: ‘Star Wars’ Alum Liam Neeson Thinks There Are Too Many Spin-Offs: ‘It’s Taken Away The Mystery & The Magic’ Kennedy also offered an update on directors Rian Johnson and Taika Waititi, who have both been reported to be helming upcoming “Star Wars” projects. “Rian and I talk all the time,” she said of Johnson, who had reportedly been tapped to helm a new “Star Wars” trilogy. “He is unbelievably busy.
So we’re not actively involved in anything at the moment because he’s doing another one of the ‘Glass Onion’ movies and then God knows what else.
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