Star Wars is making a grand return to the big screen. Lucasfilm announced three new Star Wars films at Star Wars Celebration in 2023. One of the biggest was the announcement of a new film focused on Rey set fifteen years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker, with Daisy Ridley reprising her iconic role. The movie will focus on Rey finding a new Jedi Order.
The film will likely introduce many new characters to the Star Wars franchise, but the movie also presents an exciting possibility. In the years since Revenge of the Sith, the Star Wars franchise has shown several former Jedi and force users survived Order 66 and went into hiding. This has raised some interesting questions for the larger franchise about where these survivors could be. In finding a new Jedi Order, Rey could unite the various force users the galaxy has introduced across the franchise in a team-up film, similar to the Avengers in the MCU. Here are eight force users that could make up Rey's Jedi Order.
8 Finn
Finn is the obvious choice to be in the new Star Wars movie. Finn was not only one of the leads in the sequel trilogy, but he was also featured prominently in the marketing of The Force Awakens using a lightsaber. This was misdirected for hiding Rey as the franchise's new Jedi lead, but many were excited at the prospect of Finn being a Jedi and were disappointed.
Finn is Force sensitive and tries to tell Rey in The Rise of Skywalker, but he never gets around to it. Finn's story arc is one of the biggest missed opportunities of the sequel trilogy. Being a Jedi alongside Rey could correct how the series dropped the ball with his character in the final chapter of the Skywalker Saga.
7 Grogu
Grogu meeting Rey in a new Star Wars movie is an instant winning formula for applause. Grogu is arguably the most popular character in the Star Wars franchise at the moment, and his inclusion in a movie is an instant way to generate excitement. While he will be part of Dave Filoni's directed feature film that will unite various Disney+ series, he could and should appear alongside Rey as a founder of the New Jedi Order.
Grogu could represent a major turning point for the new Jedi Order. If The Mandalorian series follows the path it appears to be setting for itself, Grogu will be very similar to the fabled Jedi/Mandalorian Tarre Vizsla. A force-sensitive Mandalorian who works alongside the Jedi Order can show how far the Jedi Order has come. Moving past a conflict between the two fabled enemies while also allowing Grogu to not have to choose between two parts of himself. He can be both Jedi and Mandalorian.
6 Ezra Bridger
Ezra Bridger was very similar to Luke Skywalker, as someone born on the day the Empire rose to power, found an old Jedi Master who survived Order 66, and trained to become a new Jedi. Star Wars: Rebels explained his absence in the original trilogy, but the character is finally set to make his live-action debut in Ahsoka, played by Eman Esfandi.
If Ezra survives the events of Ahsoka, he will likely be around 70 years old by the time of Rey's Jedi Order movie. To see the character introduced as a young kid to an old fabled Jedi Master, one who became a Jedi after the original Order fell, would provide an interesting perspective to the ensemble and help them from repeating the same mistakes.
5 Cal Kestis
Cal Kesits is the lead of Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor. He is a Padawan who survived Order 66 and escaped, living under the radar until he was called upon. Cal had a Holocron with the location of various force-sensitive children, though he did destroy it, knowing the Force would eventually bring them to where they needed to be. Now the Force could bring him to Rey to help build a new Jedi Order.
Having Cal meet other major Jedi characters like Rey, Grogu, and Ezra would be a great way to unite the various Star Wars timelines together in a generational epic. The only question is if Cal would still be alive if he hadn't already died in battle. He would be about 80 when the new film is set to take place.
4 Merrin
Merrin is a Nightsister from the planet of Dathomir introduced in Jedi: Fallen Order and appears in Jedi: Survivor. While she was never part of the Jedi Order, she is powerful in the Force. Bringing on a Nightsister as part of the New Jedi Order might show how Rey's Order will distinguish them from their predecessor. She would allow for multiple perspectives to help inform the Order, cutting through the binary notion of the light and dark side to a more balanced Force user.
3 Reva
Reva was one of the primary antagonists of the series Obi-Wan Kenobi. She was a former Padawan who during Order 66 was captured, tortured, and forced to become an Inquisitor. She was a ruthless and cunning dark-side user, but by the end of the series found the light, thanks to Obi-Wan Kenobi. The series ended with Reva leaving to determine her destiny.
Reva has an interesting perspective to add to Rey's Jedi Order. She was a Padawan during the Old Republic and gave into the Dark Side during the Empire's reign. She can help guide new Jedi, letting them know firsthand what the dark side does to a person. While Star Wars loves redemptive stories, audiences have never gotten to see a character come back to the light and live life afterward. Reva could allow Star Wars to do stories that Anakin Skywalker and Ben Solo never got.
2 Gungi
Gungi is a Wookiee Jedi who was introduced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The Bad Batch revealed he survived Order 66 and returned to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk. Gungi's whereabouts afterward are unknown, but given Wookiee's incredibly long lifespan, it is safe to say he could be alive after the events of The Rise of Skywalker.
Wookiees are some of the most popular and enduring parts of Star Wars. While the first live-action Wookiee Jedi will debut in The Acolyte, bringing in an older Gungi as part of Rey's Jedi Order will certainly be a delight to old fans and exciting for audiences who are seeing a Wookiee Jedi for the first time.
1 Ahsoka
Ahsoka seems like a sure bet, but also a tricky one to guess. Ahsoka Tano is one of the most important characters in the Star Wars universe. Having fought during the Clone Wars alongside Obi-Wan Kenobi and her master Anakin Skywalker, helping found the Rebel Alliance, and meeting Luke during his time building a new Jedi Order, it would only feel natural for Ahsoka to join Rey's Jedi Order. While Ahsoka has notably rejected being a Jedi, part of the new Jedi Order could be about redefining what exactly being a Jedi means.
However, her status in a galaxy far, far away remains unknown. In The Rise of Skywalker, Rey hears the voices of Jedi's past speaking to her, and one of those voices is Ahsoka herself. Every other Jedi Rey hears are all deceased, so this could suggest that Ahsoka has also died sometime between her Disney+ series and the sequel trilogy. If Ahsoka is alive, then Ahoska meeting Rey is too good of an opportunity to pass up.
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