Ryan Gosling is set to go to galaxy far, far away in Star Wars: Starfighter.
Speaking exclusively with SYFY Wire back in 2022, filmmaker Shawn Levy teased his then-mysterious Star Wars project, stating the goal was to make a film full of “visual spectacle and a healthy dose of wish fulfillment, levity and big heart.”
“If you had told me when I was making Big Fat Liar that I would eventually be making Deadpool and Star Wars, I would’ve said, ‘Are you kidding me?! That’s a fantasy, not a goal,'” he continued. “So the fact that I’m getting to paint on these big, rich canvasses, it’s thrilling to me. I don’t ever for a day take it for granted or feel complacent about it.”
As we now know, that movie became Starfighter.
Written by Your Friends & Neighbors creator Jonathan Tropper and starring Academy Award nominee Ryan Gosling (Barbie), the movie is poised to be the first galactic outing not directly tied to the main Skywalker saga.
“While I was making Deadpool & Wolverine, Lucasfilm and Disney said, ‘We want you to do Star Wars, and take it somewhere unexpected,” Levy recalled to Good Morning America at D23. “And I said, ‘Okay, what is it a sequel to? What’s it a prequel to?’ And they were like, ‘Just make it loyal to this franchise you love.’ [So] new characters, new timeframe, new Starfighters, new freighters, new aliens, new droids…They said, ‘Take it where you think it should go,’ and then they backed it up by giving me that freedom.”
Everything to Know About Ryan Gosling’s Star Wars: Starfighter
What is Star Wars: Starfighter About?
The official synopsis for the movie teases a mysterious main character who is set to go on an epic quest.
“When a cynical rogue is confronted by his mysterious past,” per the official synopsis. “he is hurled into a dangerous adventure across the galaxy that puts him on a crash course with destiny.”
The rogue’s name is Kade Auberon and according to Gosling, he’s “a guy from the wrong side of the galaxy whose fate is intertwined with the fastest starfighter ever built.”
Levy echoed that description to GMA, explaining that Kade is a guy who “did not grow up with a silver spoon in his mouth. [He’s got] a little bit of an edge, a little bit of a working-class background, comes from zero privilege.”
When Does Star Wars: Starfighter Take Place in The Star Wars Timeline?
Based on the few details available at the time of publication, it appears that Star Wars: Starfighter takes place about half a decade after the events of Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker.
“This is a moment in the galaxy where there is no governing enforcer or order,” Levy teased to GMA. “And so, everyone is just trying to survive, everyone is having to do what they have to do to get by.”
Who Is The Cast of Star Wars: Starfighter?
The cast for Star Wars: Starfighter includes Ryan Gosling (The Fall Guy), Amy Adams (Enchanted), Matt Smith (House of the Dragon), Mia Goth (The Odyssey), Aaron Pierre (Lanterns), Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners), Daniel Ings (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms) and newcomer Flynn Gray.
Beyond Gosling’s Kade Auberon, no other character details have been revealed.
What is Star Wars: Starfighter Rated?
The film is not yet rated, but it could likely receive a PG to PG-13 designation.
When Does Star Wars: Starfighter Come Out?
Star Wars: Starfighter arrives on the big screen May 28, 2027.
Tickets are not yet on sale.
Levy and outgoing Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy are producers. Gosling, meanwhile, is an executive producer alongside Dan Levine, Mary McLaglen and Josh McLaglen.
Levy and Gosling had so much fun making Starfighter together, that they decided to reunite for a Ghost Rider movie at Marvel Studios.
