Star Wars: Starfighter is still sounding less like homework and more like an actual movie. That should not feel refreshing. It does. In a new interview with The Playlist, writer Jonathan Tropper says the upcoming Shawn Levy-directed Star Wars film is being built so audiences do not need to have seen every other Star Wars movie before stepping into it. “You don’t have to have seen other Star Wars movies to step into this one,” Tropper said, adding that “there are no barriers to entry.” For a franchise that has spent years balancing legacy characters, canon timelines, streaming spin-offs, animated backstory, theatrical returns, and enough lore threads to strangle a bantha, that is a pretty important sentence. Starfighter Wants to Be New, Not Homework This is not the first time the creative team has positioned Starfighter as a clean entry point. Lucasfilm has already described the film as a new…
