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 12 months in Chiba, Japan. Deadpool & Wolverine and Free Man director Sean Levy will helm the undertaking, with Ryan Gosling starring.
Particulars on the deliberate film had been minimal, however a presentation hosted by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and chief inventive 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’ authentic deliberate nine-film sequence. A press launch described it as “a wholly new journey that includes all-new characters set in a time frame that has not been explored on display screen but.”
That implies the film gained’t be related to the 2001 sport Star Wars: Starfighter, a flight sim set simply earlier than the Battle of Naboo, throughout the motion of Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace.
The concept of Star Wars transferring past the Skywalker Saga is assured to be divisive amongst followers, similar to each different theatrical undertaking within the franchise that’s tried to step away from characters established in Lucas’ authentic trilogy. However the option to lastly transfer Star Wars ahead in time, reasonably than persevering with to discover completely different pockets of the established nine-film timeline with prequels and sidequels, ought to give Levy and his group a freedom that Star Wars creators don’t typically have.
And the accelerated timeline is an effective signal that Starfighter would possibly really see launch, in contrast to the varied initiatives above, seemingly all introduced as quickly because the contracts had been signed, and earlier than any important story improvement had taken place. We’ll have extra when Lucasfilm pronounces additional particulars concerning the undertaking.
