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Director Shawn Levy and Ryan Gosling took the stage today in Tokyo, Japan for Star Wars Celebration, officially announcing their upcoming project Star Wars: Starfighter.

Set five years after The Rise of Skywalker (2019), the new installment is set to go into production this fall and premiere May 28, 2027 exclusively in theaters.

https://deadline.com/2025/04/star-wars-starfighter-shawn-levy-ryan-gosling-1236371412/

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Director Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter Film Starts Production This Fall

The title of the next Star Wars theatrical film to go into production was just announced on the first day of Star Wars Celebration Japan, with a surprise visit from star Ryan Gosling and the director.

StarWars.com Team

April 18, 2025

Ryan Gosling is joining the Star Wars galaxy in a new film directed by Shawn Levy.

Levy, who recently directed and produced Marvel’s hit Deadpool & Wolverine, made a surprise appearance during The Mandalorian and Grogu panel today, joining Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and chief creative officer Dave Filoni on stage to confirm his project for the live audience at Star Wars Celebration Japan.

One of several theatrical projects still in development from Lucasfilm, including films by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold, Taika Waititi and a new trilogy by Simon Kinberg, Levy’s film — Star Wars: Starfighter — will star Gosling and go into production starting this fall. 

Set approximately five years after the events of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Gosling will play a brand-new character teased by the actor’s appearance on stage.

Star Wars: Starfighter arrives in theaters on Memorial Day 2027.

 

If this is a Star Wars version of Drive...IN!

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3 hours ago, Bill Brasky said:

why would they print money?  couldn't they just use a replicator? 

They don't have replicators in Star Wars, unless one of those stupid fucking cartoons all the dorks around here obsess over introduced it

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3 hours ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Gosling was good in BladeRunner.  He's a good fit for spacefaring imo.

He’s also starring in the upcoming adaptation of Project Hail Mary (based on the book by Andy Weir, author of The Martian). Got a lot of positive buzz out of CinemaCon.

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4 hours ago, LonghornSean said:

He’s also starring in the upcoming adaptation of Project Hail Mary (based on the book by Andy Weir, author of The Martian). Got a lot of positive buzz out of CinemaCon.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through this book. I don't know how they're going to cram this into a 2-3 hour movie.  

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5 years after Rise of Skywalker, who/what is going to be the antagonist?  
Or are we gonna...
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It’s still hard to believe how lazy that sequel trilogy was. They didn’t even bother trying to come up with an explanation as to why Palpatine was back. He was just there, with a massive fleet of Star Destroyers.

Was he a clone? Was the original a clone? Did he somehow survive the Death Star explosion? Who knows?
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14 minutes ago, Red Five said:


It’s still hard to believe how lazy that sequel trilogy was. They didn’t even bother trying to come up with an explanation as to why Palpatine was back. He was just there, with a massive fleet of Star Destroyers.

Was he a clone? Was the original a clone? Did he somehow survive the Death Star explosion? Who knows?

#justaskingquestions

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6 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

I'm about 2/3 of the way through this book. I don't know how they're going to cram this into a 2-3 hour movie.  

It needs to be an Apple TV series done by the Foundation people.

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12 hours ago, Red Five said:


It’s still hard to believe how lazy that sequel trilogy was. They didn’t even bother trying to come up with an explanation as to why Palpatine was back. He was just there, with a massive fleet of Star Destroyers.

Was he a clone? Was the original a clone? Did he somehow survive the Death Star explosion? Who knows?

It's like they basically just skipped to the end of Heir to the Empire

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2 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

So… if they’re moving forward with a X-Wing movie with Gosling, that means the Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron project is dead right? 

After Wonder Woman 1984 bombed, I knew they’d pull the plug.

She actually turned in a script last year to LucasFilm (she started writing it in March of 2024) - they held her to her contract they signed right before the strike happened. Unfortunately for her, outside of existing Star Wars IP, it sounds like everything is going to take place in the future (Starfighter) or in the past (Knights of the Republic stuff). I would have liked a Rogue Squadron movie, but if you're into conspiracy theories, it's more proof that some at Disney are embarrassed that the stuff set around the OT does better with fans than the shittastic sequels.

Wonder Woman 1984 was released simultaneously on HBOMax streaming and was released in only a few theater chains during COVID when many/most theaters were still shut down.  She had the misfortune of COVID combined with TimeWarnerDiscoveryCNN taking over HBOMax and pushing all of the DC people out and bringing in Gunn and Co. and starting over (and Gunn has supported her comments about it on social media).  It was still HBOMAXTIMEWARNERCHIPJOANNAGAINESDISCOVERYTRUECRIME's biggest streaming movie of the year. A fuckload of people watched it at home.

 

 

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11 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

She actually turned in a script last year to LucasFilm (she started writing it in March of 2024) - they held her to her contract they signed right before the strike happened. Unfortunately for her, outside of existing Star Wars IP, it sounds like everything is going to take place in the future (Starfighter) or in the past (Knights of the Republic stuff). I would have liked a Rogue Squadron movie, but if you're into conspiracy theories, it's more proof that some at Disney are embarrassed that the stuff set around the OT does better with fans than the shittastic sequels.

Wonder Woman 1984 was released simultaneously on HBOMax streaming and was released in only a few theater chains during COVID when many/most theaters were still shut down.  She had the misfortune of COVID combined with TimeWarnerDiscoveryCNN taking over HBOMax and pushing all of the DC people out and bringing in Gunn and Co. and starting over (and Gunn has supported her comments about it on social media).  It was still HBOMAXTIMEWARNERCHIPJOANNAGAINESDISCOVERYTRUECRIME's biggest streaming movie of the year. A fuckload of people watched it at home.

 

 

A lot of apologizing for a deeply shitty movie. 

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18 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

A lot of apologizing for a deeply shitty movie. 

Doesn’t matter if it’s shit, it was their top streaming movie of the year. If they don’t get rid of everybody and bring in Gunn, she would have pumped out Wonder Woman 2036 or had her Amazonia TV series in production (she even wrote or co-wrote the scripts for the season).  Gunn has backed up her comments about her time there.

And LucasFilm could have let her out of her contract last year (it was signed and sealed right as the strike started) but they still wanted to work with her in some capacity, but there’s some weird shit going on there with what can and can’t go into production.  For a while it sounded like everything live-action Star Wars except Mando and Andor was finished, but now the flood gates are opening up.

Shit, I didn’t have a stand-alone Maul series on my bingo card.  We really are likely to get a Thrawn series.

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4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Doesn’t matter if it’s shit, it was their top streaming movie of the year. If they don’t get rid of everybody and bring in Gunn, she would have pumped out Wonder Woman 2036 or had her Amazonia TV series in production (she even wrote or co-wrote the scripts for the season).  Gunn has backed up her comments about her time there.

And LucasFilm could have let her out of her contract last year (it was signed and sealed right as the strike started) but they still wanted to work with her in some capacity, but there’s some weird shit going on there with what can and can’t go into production.  For a while it sounded like everything live-action Star Wars except Mando and Andor was finished, but now the flood gates are opening up.

Shit, I didn’t have a stand-alone Maul series on my bingo card.  We really are likely to get a Thrawn series.

My wildest Star Wars idea is Thrawn links up with Vanto and the Chiss and they proceed to wreck shit in the galaxy. 

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