Daisy Ridley’s “Star Wars” movie is still alive. Lucasfilm has hired George Nolfi (“The Borne Ultimatum”) to write the script for the long-gestating follow-up to 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,

The Rey-centric Star Wars movie has had two constants: star Daisy Ridley, reprising her role from the sequel trilogy, and director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Everything else has shifted around in the great sands of Lucasfilm— including its presumed release date,

Despite the fast-tracking of Shawn Levy’s standalone Star Wars movie with Ryan Gosling in talks, the Daisy Ridley Rise of Skywalker sequel is getting another pass, this time by writer George Nolfi. Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is still attached to direct the story about Rey Skywalker,