I read this leak/speculation on Bounding into Comics but considering it is Disney Star Wars I can totally see this happening. The working title is also New Jedi Order which leads me to believe it will be giving Rey what Luke's story was in the EU. I love how they didn't want to use it but feel the need to bastardize it. Like that Ahsoka series looks like an Heir to the Empire bastardization.
What would really crack me up would be to see Rey being a grumpy hermit on an island who has given up, and then wait for the critics to call it brilliant and subversive.
So where's our money? Black apprentice? transgender apprentice? Black transgender apprentice?
I’m betting on nonbinary. These movies have always emphasized a duology to the force (Jedi/Sith) so the only “logical” choice to avoiding such conflicts is to teach the ways of the force to a hermaphrodite. For extra points in missing the point, they’ll make it an alien, where human genders wouldn’t even have to apply anyway.
Wasn’t there a gay rock in Disney’s EU?
Maybe they take the duology away from the force. Was Anakin a transforcer when he turned to Darth Vader? In order to detransition he had to die?
Since you mention alien I'm thinking we get a Jedi Hutt. Perhaps a humanoid one. They would love to cast a land whale.
Lizzo wasn’t enough?
I'm thinking the dude from Linus Tech Tips looks pretty close to a Hutt. He can cut down the Sith for doing unspeakable things like using air cooling on their CPU.
The first Hutt/Human hybrid! cut to Lizzo in spandex while a slowed down Duel of the Fates plays