Ryan Gosling has the high terrain. Lucasfilm confirms that the star will run a new episode “Star Wars”, entitled “Star Wars: Starfighter”, with the staging of Shawn Levy. The film is considering a start of fall and Disney production set a theatrical release date on May 28, 2027.
After numerous reports on the attachment of Gosling and Levy to a “Star Wars” project, the president of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy, and the creative director Dave Filoni officially unveiled the plans for “Starfighter” Friday morning during the annual annual Star Wars celebration event in Tokyo.
Variety May also confirm that Jonathan Tropper wrote the film script. Tropper has written previous features for Levy (“The Adam Project”, “that’s where I leave you”) and is the creator of the Apple TV + series “Your friends and neighbors”.
Gosling and Levy appeared during the live celebration of Star Wars to tease the project more, with milk bearing a reading ceiling: “never tell me the chances.”
“Being here and seeing you all (makes it) more inspiring to do it. There is so much creativity and imagination in this room and there is so much love. It is an excellent reminder of the quantity of films that films can mean for us, in particular how these films mean for us,” Gosling told the public screaming at the end of the presentation. “Strength is a mysterious thing, but, as I am here, strength is the fans. All we can hope for is” that fans are with us. “”
“We are also fans,” said Levy. “There is obviously a relationship between these stories and the public, but we spent our lives in this audience. We know how significant it is. “
The Standalone, which focuses on the new characters in the “Star Wars” universe, is set at around five years after the events of “Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker”, which concluded the Skywalker saga and is currently present as the last chronologically characteristic on the “Star Wars” calendar. No other casting details have been announced.
The project marks the follow-up of Levy’s director at Marvel Studios “Deadpool & Wolverine” by Marvel Studios, which raised $ 1.3 billion at the world box office after its publication in July 2024 and is the highest R evaluative function of all time. Gosling was seen for the last time in the Romcom “The Fall Guy”, heavy with action, released in May 2024. “Starfighter” is a new jump for the actor generally of the franchise, including some meetings with IP (“Barbie”, “Blade Runner 2049”) have fewer pieces with an audience of films on the shooting of Filming Wars “.
“Starfighter” will be released a little more than a year after the next theatrical functionality “Star Wars”, “The Mandalorian & Grogu”. This film, a theatrical expansion of the Disney + “The Mandalorian” series, has already completed the main photography and will be released in theaters on May 22, 2026. It will mark the first functionality “Star Wars” since “The Rise of Skywalker” made its debut in December 2019.
