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…
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Star Wars: Starfighter Leak Points to Jedi Refuge, Lightsaber Duel, and a Very Different Post-Skywalker Story
New rumored details suggest Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter may involve a Force-sensitive child, a hidden Jedi world, Ryan Gosling as a rogue pilot, and a muddy lightsaber duel on a strange new planet. Star Wars: Starfighter is still almost a year away, but the rumor engine has officially left the hangar. A new wave of rumored details is now circulating around Shawn Levy’s upcoming Star Wars film, and if even half of it is accurate, Starfighter may be a much more Force-heavy adventure than the title originally suggested. As always with leaks, bring salt. Not a polite sprinkle. A proper Tatooine moisture-farmer amount. What Lucasfilm has officially confirmed is already interesting enough: Star Wars: Starfighter is an all-new standalone adventure directed by Shawn Levy, starring Ryan Gosling, Flynn Gray, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, and Amy Adams. The film is currently set…
Star Wars: Starfighter Already Has a Rough Cut, and Matt Smith Is Talking Like a Fanboy
Star Wars: Starfighter is starting to feel a little less like a distant calendar entry and a little more like an actual movie. That helps. For months, Shawn Levy’s upcoming Star Wars film has mostly existed as a neat bundle of promising ingredients: Ryan Gosling, a fresh story, a post-sequel-era setting, Mia Goth, Matt Smith, Amy Adams, and a 2027 release date sitting out there like a hyperspace coordinate nobody can quite reach yet. Now Matt Smith has made the whole thing feel a bit more real. Speaking in a recent interview, Smith said there is already a rough cut of Star Wars: Starfighter, and he was preparing to watch it. He also praised the film, Ryan Gosling, Mia Goth, and director Shawn Levy, calling the project “absolutely blinding.” That is very British. And honestly, very useful. A Rough Cut Does Not Mean the Movie Is Finished Let us be…
Matt Smith Joins Star Wars: Starfighter as the Galaxy’s Next Great Villain—Opposite Ryan Gosling
Matt Smith is finally going to the dark side of the galaxy—officially. The Doctor Who and House of the Dragon actor has landed a major villain role in Star Wars: Starfighter, a brand-new feature film from Lucasfilm starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Shawn Levy. With a 2027 release on the hyperspace horizon, this one’s already shaping up to be the most buzzed-about project in the post-Skywalker cinematic era of Star Wars movies. And yes, it’s completely original—no recycled Jedi, no Palpatine clones, and not a single Skywalker in sight. What Is Star Wars: Starfighter? Let’s start with what it’s not:It’s not a sequel to The Rise of Skywalker, not a Rogue Squadron reboot, and definitely not a Disney+ spin-off turned feature film. Instead, Starfighter is a standalone theatrical release, set five years after Episode IX, and focused on a brand-new set of characters navigating a freshly unsettled galaxy. Ryan…