After years of having an assembly line of Star Wars movies and TV shows, the galaxy far, far away feels like it’s slowing down. A previously announced—but still untitled—spin-off starring Daisy Ridley’s Rey from the Force Awakens trilogy is the latest project to hit snags. The movie has reportedly lost another writer, and this time it’s the creator of Netflix’s Peaky Blinders.
Puck News reports (via Gamesradar) that Steven Knight, the head writer behind the Cillian Murphy period crime drama series, is the latest writer to walk away from the upcoming Star Wars movie, and its plot following what happens to Rey after the last numbered sequel, Rise of the Skywalker. This would put a potential December 2026 launch for the movie in question.
Knight had be tapped to write the movie after Damon Lindelof (Lost, Watchmen) and Justin Britt-Gibson (The Strain) departed the project back in 2023, after turning in a script earlier that year. Multiple other Star Wars movies got shelved around that time.
The movie, which is supposed to center around Rey rebuilding the Jedi Order over a decade after the events at the end of Episode 9, was revealed at Star Wars Celebration 2023 with documentarian Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy set to direct. She’s still involved, but Star Wars Celebration skipped 2024 and there was no real update on the status of the film at Disney’s D23 fan fest event either.
Daisy Ridley seems confident things will still pan out for the project. “Things are evolving,” she told Collider at a Q&A recently. “I continue to be very excited. There will be an update soon.” In the meantime, the next Star Wars appearance on the big screen will be The Mandalorian & Grogu, a substitute for a canned fourth season of the show, that unfortunately won’t hit theaters until May 2026.
