Earlier this yr, stories got here out that Ryan Gosling was in talks for the lead function in Shawn Levy’s Star Wars film. Now, Gosling has confirmed that he’ll star in Levy’s movie, which the Deadpool & Wolverine director has been engaged on since 2022, on the Star Wars Celebration occasion in Tokyo. Levy’s film can be referred to as Star Wars: Starfighter, in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, and is scheduled for launch on Could 28, 2027, a couple of weeks after Avengers: Secret Wars debuts in cinemas.
Starfighter, most probably named after the universe’s small fight spacecraft, is a standalone film set 5 years after the occasions in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and won’t be linked to the Skywalker household. “It’s not a prequel, not sequel. It’s a brand new journey. It’s set in a time frame that we haven’t seen explored but,” Levy mentioned in the course of the occasion. Neither Levy nor Gosling mentioned the plot of the film, and it is not even clear what character Gosling is taking part in. Manufacturing appears to be searching for a teenage actor and a female and male actor to play as villains alongside Gosling’s character. The film will begin manufacturing this fall.
A yr earlier than Starfighter hits the theaters, nevertheless, The Mandalorian and Grogu is taking middle stage. A by-product based mostly on The Mandalorian sequence, it can premiere on Could 22, 2026, with Jon Favreau serving as its director.
