One of the most highly anticipated Star Wars movies is New Jedi Order, which will feature an older Rey trying to find and train new Jedi in the wake of the First Order’s defeat. Some fans are understandably skeptical about whether we’ll ever see this movie (currently on hold) or if it will join the growing pile of exciting projects that Disney suddenly cancels altogether. Should this move ever see the light of day, however, it needs to do one thing to succeed: Rey’s next movie needs to adapt the Kevin J. Anderson novel Jedi Search, the first of his Jedi Academy trilogy.
For longtime fans of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Rey’s movie being labeled New Jedi Order may bring to mind the book series of the same name, which featured our favorite heroes fighting against the Yuuzhan Vong. What I am proposing, though, is that this new film should instead adapt Jedi Search, which kicked off Kevin J. Anderson’s Jedi Academy series. That literary trilogy followed the challenges that Luke Skywalker faced in the EU when doing exactly what Rey will be doing in her movie: finding and training the next generation of Jedi.
Obviously, not every aspect of this book would work for the upcoming movie. For one thing, Rey would obviously be replacing Luke Skywalker as the person searching the galaxy for new Force talents. And unless the movie finds some new characters to take their place (ideally, Finn and Poe Dameron), the movie would need to ditch the book’s subplot about Han and Chewbacca’s misadventures on Kessel (which is fine, as Solo: A Star Wars Story already adapted a chunk of this tale).
Why Jedi Search Is Ideal
Much of Kevin J. Anderson’s story would work surprisingly well because it grounds Luke Skywalker’s quest for Force-sensitive survivors of Darth Vader’s Jedi purge. These survivors were all hard to find, which is why Luke had to use old Imperial technology to track these colorful characters down. It would be cool to see Rey’s movie explore this technology, which might explain how Inquisitors were able to use midi-chlorian detectors as a way of hunting down Jedi.
Luke Skywalker training Grogu in The Mandalorian
Much of Jedi Search is taken up by Luke Skywalker’s quest to find and train more Force users. It sets up the events of the next two novels in the Jedi Academy trilogy, which features the corruption, fall, and eventual redemption of one of Luke’s new students. Adapting this would help Rey’s film explore a topic that the Sequel Trilogy really bungled: what causes a Jedi to turn to the Dark Side and how they can claw their way back to the Light Side.
Bringing Back The Imperials
Some other details of Anderson’s Jedi Academy books would be great for Rey’s movie, including a subplot about the New Republic fighting a scary Imperial Remnant. Since New Jedi Order is set 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker, it would be fitting for the Resistance to deal with either what’s left of the First Order or some new evil that has risen to replace it. Anderson’s novels also have a Jedi weighing the merits of using a stolen superweapon in the name of the greater good, and adapting this would let Rey’s film do something new with Star Wars’ tired superweapon shtick.
If Disney feels ambitious, Rey’s movie could even include Exar Kun, the ancient Sith spirit that threatens to undo all of Luke Skywalker’s work. With or without him, though, a film adaptation of the Jedi Academy books could be what this shopworn franchise needs. It will make for a great film that does the impossible: make us care about Rey again, after those lackluster sequels.
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