Director Shawn Levy and star Ryan Gosling have formally unveiled their new standalone film, ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’, set for launch on Might 28, 2027.
The ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ filmmaker and Hollywood actor took to the stage on the ‘Star Wars Celebration’ occasion in Tokyo, Japan on Friday (18.04.25) to announce the discharge date for the hotly anticipated flick.
The film might be set 5 years after 2019’s ‘The Rise of Skywalker’, with the director revealing it is an entire “new journey”.
As quoted by Deadline, Levy, 56, mentioned: “There are numerous rumours, some true, some not. … This isn’t a prequel, this isn’t a sequel. It’s a brand new journey.”
Gosling, 44, gushed: “There may be not a extra excellent filmmaker for this specific story than Shawn.”
The script comes from Jonathan Tropper, who has spent the previous two years engaged on it.
Manufacturing is because of kick off within the autumn.
The official particulars observe a report that Mikey Madison allegedly turned down a task within the movie.
The 26-year-old ‘Anora’ actress – who beat off robust competitors from Demi Moore to choose up the Finest Actress award at this 12 months’s Oscars – was provided a task within the flick however handed on the half, in accordance with Selection.
Levy has been engaged on the film with Lucasfilm since 2022.
Character and plot particulars stay unknown however final 12 months, Levy mentioned he isn’t planning to attach his work to every other movies or TV exhibits within the long-running sequence.
Talking on the ‘Completely satisfied Unhappy Confused’ podcast, he mentioned: “I am going to say that the expertise of crafting this story has pressured me to consider that query. As a result of there’s solely so many instances that ‘Star Wars’ films can revisit the identical part of the timeline, and so it is actually pressured me, as a result of I do not need to do a ‘Star Wars’ film that’s redundant to others, nor am I all in favour of doing one which has to serve one other film.”
The filmmaker – who has teamed up together with his ‘The Adam Venture’ co-writer Tropper on the undertaking – added he was making the flick with “tone and characters” on the forefront.
He mentioned: “I actually wished to craft one thing that felt natural to me, each in tone and characters, so I feel that there’s actually the Power and a connection to one thing greater than our particular person selves.
“And the way in which that that may make us highly effective, these themes, mixed with visible delight and want fulfilment, that is ‘Star Wars’ to me.”
