Star Wars' Rey Officially Returns in First Look at New Sequel To The Last Jedi

Star Wars fans can look forward to a new story that might finally make the sequel trilogy make sense.

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens wasn’t a bad start to the sequel trilogy, and out of the three it’s definitely the better film even with how much it borrows from previous films in the franchise.

Then Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi gets a bit more creative which we can appreciate but falls short in a few areas.

Finally Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker completely jumps the shark and delivers the worst ending to a trilogy in cinematic history, even Blade: Trinity did better.

Because the overall storyline wasn’t planned in advance it fell to comics, books and other media to plug the plot holes the films left behind, and one such audiobook titled Star Wars; The Jaws Of Jakku aims to do just that for the time between The Last Jedi and The Rise Of Skywalker.

Jaws Of Jakku’s description reads: “Following the events of The Last Jedi, Rey struggles to let go of her lonely childhood on the desert planet of Jakku. Hoping to have a breakthrough in her Jedi training, she returns to her home world with Finn and BB-8 in tow.

“When they meet a young girl on a dangerous mission to save her family, they travel through pitch-black tunnels beneath the sand where they encounter scurrying gnaw-jaws, a haunting terror from the past, and maybe—just maybe—hope for them all.”

By this point in the story Rey’s been through a lot. She’s just been told by Kylo Ren that her family were normal people and she’s not as special as she might have let herself believe.

This all gets reversed in The Rise Of Skywalker of course, but if you pretend that film didn’t happen Rey’s story becomes a lot more compelling.

In Jaws Of Jakku Rey continues to push herself with her Jedi training and as the description says gets sidetracked helping a girl.

Already it feels like a better plot than the actual sequel to The Last Jedi as Rey’s advancing through her own means, not because she’s the granddaughter of someone special or because she’s tied to some prophecy, just good old-fashioned training.

Star Wars: The Jaws Of Jakku releases on 9 October, and if you have Audible it might be worth a listen.