Titled Star Wars: Starfighter and scheduled for launch on Might 28, 2027 — the identical week because the fiftieth anniversary of the unique 1977 Star Wars (subsequently formally retitled Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope), the undertaking was introduced on the annual Star Wars Celebration, held this yr in Chiba, Japan. Deadpool & Wolverine and Free Man director Sean Levy will helm the undertaking, with Ryan Gosling starring.
Particulars on the deliberate film have been minimal, however a presentation hosted by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and chief artistic officer Dave Filoni revealed that Starfighter is scheduled to enter manufacturing in fall 2025, and can happen about 5 years after the occasions in 2019’s Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, the film that accomplished George Lucas’ unique deliberate nine-film sequence. A press launch described it as “a wholly new journey that includes all-new characters set in a time period that has not been explored on display screen but.”
That means the film received’t be related to the 2001 sport Star Wars: Starfighter, a flight sim set simply earlier than the Battle of Naboo, in the course of the motion of Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace.
The thought of Star Wars transferring past the Skywalker Saga is assured to be divisive amongst followers, identical to each different theatrical undertaking within the franchise that’s tried to step away from characters established in Lucas’ unique trilogy. However the option to lastly transfer Star Wars ahead in time, somewhat than persevering with to discover completely different pockets of the established nine-film timeline with prequels and sidequels, ought to give Levy and his crew a freedom that Star Wars creators don’t usually have.
And the accelerated timeline is an effective signal that Starfighter would possibly truly see launch, in contrast to the assorted initiatives above, seemingly all introduced as quickly because the contracts have been signed, and earlier than any vital story growth had taken place. We’ll have extra when Lucasfilm proclaims additional particulars in regards to the undertaking.
