Originally published January 3, 2020. Updated February 22, 2020.
Chris Terrio, the co-writer of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, has revealed if Tatooine is Rey’s new home planet.
At the end of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, we see Rey heading to the former home of Luke Skywalker – Tatooine. Here, she buries the lightsabers that belonged to Luke and her other master Leia.
But is Tatooine where Rey is now going to reside? The soundtrack for Episode IX lists the ending track as ‘A New Home’, suggesting that it might. However, according to writer Chris Terrio, this isn’t the case. Speaking to THR, he said:
“I can say with confidence that neither the screenplay nor the film suggest that Rey is going to live alone on Tatooine. The track names on the soundtrack were at the discretion of the master himself, John Williams. I can’t presume to say what John meant when he titled the piece ‘A New Home,’ but I can say that Rey’s arc over three films has to do with her finding the belonging she seeks with the new family she’s found inside the Resistance. The very last thing Rey would do after all that is to go and live alone in a desert.”
The intention, rather, is to give Rey “a pilgrimage in honor of her two Skywalker masters.”
“Leia’s childhood home, Alderaan, no longer exists, but Luke’s childhood home, Tatooine, does. Rey brings the sabers there to honor the Skywalker twins by laying them to rest — together, finally — where it all began. The farthest planet from the bright center of the universe, but a beautiful and peaceful place to bury two sacred objects.”
So, there you have it! Tatooine is not the intended final destination of Rey. Perhaps one day we will learn where she ends up, maybe starting a new Jedi academy in the process.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker sees J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) directing a cast that includes Star Wars veterans Daisy Ridley (Rey), Adam Driver (Kylo Ren), John Boyega (Finn), Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron), Lupita Nyong’o (Maz Kanata), Domhnall Gleeson (General Hux), Kelly Marie Tran (Rose Tico), Joonas Suotamo (Chewbacca), Billie Lourd (Lieutenant Connix), Greg Grunberg (Snap Wexley), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian), Ian McDiarmid (Emperor Palpatine) and Carrie Fisher (Leia Organa) as well as new additions Naomi Ackie (Lady Macbeth), Richard E. Grant (Logan), Dominic Monaghan (Lost), and Keri Russell (The Americans).
