Let me preface this by saying that I do not claim to be someone who grew up loving Star Wars. When I was five, my older brother and father were going to a Star Wars premiere, and I was at home playing with my American Girl dolls. I was not interested in this world until very late, probably when I began high school in 2012.

Film revolving around continued adventures of Daisy Ridley's character had shuffled screenwriters since it was first announced in April 2023

Rey Skywalker could be the key to pushing the Star Wars saga forward — and fixing the sequel trilogy's biggest misstep.

Rey has long since been poised as the Luke Skywalker replacement in the Star Wars episodic saga, but she's now becoming even more important.