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Ryan Gosling is set to embark on a journey to “a galaxy far, far away” in a new “Star Wars” movie.
The “Barbie” star will be part of forces with director Shawn Levy for “Star Wars: Starfighter,” slated for launch in May 2027.
Set to start manufacturing this fall, the movie can be set roughly 5 years after “Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker,” launched in 2019, however will sit exterior the Skywalker story as a standalone movie.
“The film… is an entirely new adventure featuring all-new characters set in a period of time that has not been explored on screen,” stated a press release from Lucasfilm, the proprietor of the “Star Wars” franchise.
Details of the movie have been introduced on the Star Wars Celebration, a fan occasion in Japan on Friday.
The viewers was proven a photograph of Gosling’s childhood “Star Wars”-branded bedding earlier than he instructed them he was “dreaming about ‘Star Wars,’ before [he] ever saw it.”
“It’s always been there, it’s sort of in the DNA of the culture. Myself, I think it framed my idea of what a movie even was,” Gosling stated on stage in a panel with Levy.
“The script is just so good, the story, it has so much adventure, so much heart and original character. It’s an opportunity to shine the light into a side of the universe that we may not have seen,” Gosling stated.
Levy, the director of “Deadpool & Wolverine,” instructed the gang the movie would have all of the “fun of ‘Star Wars’” however it will be performed “in ways that are new and original.”
“Because obviously you take on ‘Star Wars,’ you take on something this beloved, it’s intimidating, you’re scared, you’re nervous, you want to get it right. But we have a feeling that with this story, with this collaboration, we can get it right,” he added.
The “Star Wars” universe has massively expanded since Disney bought the franchise in 2012, with the corporate commissioning a sequel trilogy to the unique Skywalker storyline in addition to a sequence of spinoff movies and sequence.
Between 2015 and 2019, Lucasfilm launched a new “Star Wars” movie every year, together with “The Force Awakens,” “The Last Jedi,” and “The Rise of Skywalker,” in the Skywalker sequence and standalone titles “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “Solo: A Star Wars Story.”
The franchise has additionally branched into streaming with titles together with “The Mandalorian,” “The Book of Boba Fett,” “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” and “Andor” on Disney+.
The subsequent movie in the franchise, “The Mandalorian & Grogu,” a spin-off of “The Mandalorian” sequence, directed by Jon Favreau, will hit cinemas in May 2026.