Disney chucks another writer at the Rey Star Wars movie

This is per THR, which reports that Nolfi—whose knack for figuring out things to keep Matt Damon busy also extends to writing Ocean’s Twelve—will take on a job previously tackled by Damon Lindelof, Justin Britt-Gibson, and Steven Knight. None of whom appear to have been able to come up with a further plotline for Rey now that she finally has a last name to put down on all her various space-forms. (Personally, we’d watch a film about her increasingly brazen attempts to scam Luke and Leia’s estates as the “Skywalker heir,” but this might seem tonally off-message.)

Out of all the Star Wars movies that have been announced and not made in the last half-decade (most recently, the supposed one being cooked up between Deadpool & Wolverine‘s Shawn Levy and Ryan Gosling), this might be the one that’s the most baffling in its inability to get off the ground: Rey was the lynchpin of the entire sequel trilogy—which did, we feel like it’s worth remembering, make Disney enormous amounts of money, even Rise—so you’d assume another movie featuring her would be a slam dunk. Maybe Nolfi will find a way to crack it, possibly by reimagining Daisy Ridley as Matt Damon, and just allowing the creative juices to flow.