That rumored plot summary going around the internet about Rey’s New Jedi Order movie is fake

In your most recent “don’t believe everything you read on the internet” development, there’s a fake plot summary of the New Jedi Order movie making the rounds on the web.

It was announced at Star Wars Celebration earlier this year that Daisy Ridley is returning to the role of Rey Skywalker for a movie set after The Rise of Skywalker, and we know that the movie will focus on Rey’s attempts to rebuild the Jedi in a galaxy that isn’t even sure if they need the Jedi any more. But beyond that, we don’t know much more.

The rumored summary mentions Rey training a young boy and girl, and things like that, but io9 reached out to Lucasfilm to get clarity and were told that the summary is false. According to Lucasfilm, the accurate part is Rey rebuilding the Jedi Order; the rest is inaccurate. What’s also notable is that it sounds like New Jedi Order won’t be the movie title but rather a general placeholder summary for what it will be about. Which probably could have been expected all along, but this seems to be the most definitive I’ve seen it stated like that.

The movie is a highly anticipated project, and it’s been presumed to be the next Star Wars theatrical release – though even that has yet to be confirmed. The rumors suggest it’ll be going into production next year, but there too we don’t know anything for sure – especially with the ongoing writer’s strike.

So, yeah, Star Wars fans need to be reminded regularly that not everything on the internet is true. And the problem is not mainly that people are gullible in believing things without credible reason to, but the fact that it’s become commonplace for fans to read things like this that aren’t true and then come to judge and evaluate the final product on something they read on the internet that was never intended in the first place. It’s the curse of expectations that has run rampant in this fanbase (and others, too) in which stories are not evaluated on their own merits but in comparison to what fans expected to see. Sometimes those expectations are just thoughts, but other times it’s because of some rumor or speculation that appears on the internet, which is then used to criticize the final product we get. There’s a better way.