It’s official: Ryan Gosling is headed to the galaxy far, far-off.
At Star Wars Celebration in Japan this week, Gosling and director Shawn Levy took the stage to formally announce their upcoming Star Wars movie, simply the second that may (hopefully) hit theaters within the final eight years.
The movie will likely be known as Star Wars: Starfighter. A submit on the information on StarWars.com states that the movie is “set roughly 5 years after the occasions of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” and that “Gosling will play a brand-new character teased by the actor’s look on stage [at Star Wars Celebration].”
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Manufacturing on Star Wars: Starfighter is ready to start this fall. A latest report claimed Levy and Gosling needed latest Oscar winner Mikey Madison for a task within the movie, however she supposedly handed on the challenge.
Whereas I wouldn’t presume it will likely be related to it in any approach, there has beforehand been a online game titled Star Wars: Starfighter. Launched in 2001 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox, it let gamers take management of varied spaceships for missions set across the occasions of the Star Wars prequels. (That can for positive be totally different than the film, given its timeline.)
Star Wars: Starfighter is now scheduled to open in theaters on Could 28, 2027. That’s a bit of over one yr after the upcoming The Mandalorian & Grogu (on Could 22, 2026), and simply three weeks after Avengers: Secret Wars on Could 7, 2027. If these dates all maintain, that will likely be fairly every week.
