Ryan Gosling stars in post-Skywalker Star Wars film
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Disney and Lucasfilm unveiled footage from “Star Wars: Starfighter” at D23, introducing Ryan Gosling as pilot Kade Auberon and a young companion. The film will be the first standalone Star Wars feature set after 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker”, placing it in a previously unseen period of the franchise’s timeline.
Directed by Shawn Levy from a script by Jonathan Tropper, “Starfighter” is due in cinemas on 28 May 2027, exactly 50 years after the original film’s release. Its teaser showed Kade restoring and flying a decommissioned fast fighter through alien ocean geysers while droids attack, with a robotic co-pilot assisting him; the cast also includes Flynn Gray, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre and Amy Adams.
- Ryan Gosling leads a new post-Skywalker Star Wars film
- “Starfighter” arrives in cinemas on 28 May 2027
- D23 footage revealed its pilot, fighter and alien settings
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Star Wars is a long-running science-fiction series set in a galaxy where planets, spaceships, droids and alien species are central to the story. Its best-known films followed the Skywalker family, whose conflict with the authoritarian Empire and later the First Order shaped much of the series.
Disney has owned Lucasfilm, the company behind Star Wars, since 2012, and has produced films and television series set at different points in the fictional timeline. The 2019 film The Rise of Skywalker concluded the most recent trilogy centred on the Skywalker family.
A standalone film uses the same fictional world but focuses on different characters and does not need to continue one family’s story directly. A new setting after The Rise of Skywalker may show how the franchise develops its future era on cinema screens.
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Originally published by Variety as “‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Footage: Ryan Gosling Races Through the Galaxy With Young Sidekick”.