Canadian actor Ryan Gosling at CinemaCon 2025 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on April 2
LOS ANGELES – Oscar-nominated Canadian actor Ryan Gosling will star in a brand new Star Wars movie that may attain film theaters in Could 2027, Walt Disney’s Lucasfilm introduced on Thursday, April 17.
“Star Wars: Starfighter” will happen 5 years after the occasions of 2019’s “The Rise Of Skywalker,” a Lucasfilm assertion stated.
The film is “a wholly new journey that includes all-new characters set in a time period that has not been explored on display but,” the assertion added.
It should be part of the science-fiction franchise created by American filmmaker George Lucas in 1977, which already contains three units of trilogies, a number of standalone motion pictures and a number of TV spin-offs. The Star Wars movies have introduced in additional than US$5.1 billion (S$6.7 billion) at international field workplaces.
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One other movie set within the Star Wars universe, “The Mandalorian & Grogu,” is scheduled to open in theaters in 2026.
Canadian filmmaker Shawn Levy will direct “Starfighter” and manufacturing will begin within the second half of 2025. Levy directed Marvel’s 2024 smash hit Deadpool & Wolverine and episodes of Netflix’s widespread sci-fi sequence “Stranger Issues” (2016 to current).
Gosling, 44, has been nominated for 3 Oscars, most just lately for Greatest Supporting Actor for his function as Ken in Barbie (2023).
Whereas he has signed on to enterprise right into a galaxy far, far-off, newly minted Oscar winner for Greatest Actress and Anora’s (2024) breakout star Mikey Madison is not going to.
In keeping with leisure commerce journal Selection, the 26-year-old American ingenue was provided a component in “Starfighter,” however handed on the function. REUTERS
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