‘Oceans 12’/‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ Writer Now Attached To The Star Wars Movie About Rey - Set 15 Years After The Sequel Trilogy

It appears the upcoming Star Wars movie focused around Daisy Ridley's Rey Skywalker, set 15 years after the end of the sequel trilogy, once again has a writer again attached to it. You know what they say: fourth time's the charm! That's right - George Nolfi ('The Bourne Ultimatum', 'Oceans 12', 'The Adjustment Bureau') is the FOURTH writer set to scribe this movie! 

Damon Lindelof ('Lost', 'The Leftovers' 'Watchmen') and Justin Britt-Gibson ('Counterpart', 'Banshee') were the first ones attached to the project, but were ominously "asked to leave" in 2023 before being replaced by Steven Knight ('Peaky Blinders', 'Locke') who just dropped off the film in October. Daisy Ridley teased excited an exciting update around the same time, however…. 

….which sort've makes me think George Nolfi has been signed onto the movie for longer than we think. Documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is still slated to direct in her feature debut.

George Nolfi's credits aren't good enough to give me complete confidence in him, but I do like a lot of the movies he's been involved with - and you wanna know who else was a writer on 'The Bourne Ultimatum' with Nolfi?

Mr Tony Gilroy, the writer of 'Rogue One' and creator/writer/genius behind 'Andor'. Something tells me Tony put in a good word with Lucasfilm here, and that almost gives me more faith than any previous blockbuster writing credit could. 

It'll probably wind up being the most divisive Star Wars project since the last Star Wars project, but who knows - maybe this will rock and bring the fandom back together again….if it even goes into production, that is.

This movie was supposed to release in December 2026, but was removed from the Lucasfilm schedule when Steven Knight went his own way - so who knows if/when it'll ever come out. Cancelling previously announced projects is kinda Lucasfilm's whole thing at this point.