Star Wars: Starfighter – Shawn Levy Lucasfilm film with Ryan Gosling has a launch date + Mandalorian & Grogu footage screened Gurilla Overview

We’re going again to a galaxy far, distant – and this time on the large display screen with some bona fide A-listers connected. Certainly, Lucasfilm and Disney introduced throughout Star Wars Celebration that their long-rumoured new addition to the franchise starring Ryan Gosling, and directed by Shawn Levy, is formally going ahead, and will likely be hitting theatres before you suppose. The movie, Star Wars: Starfighter, is ready for a Might 28, 2027, launch, which is sort of one 12 months to the day following their first Star Wars film in seven years, The Mandalorian and Grogu, which has a Might 22, 2026, launch date.

The transfer marks a robust shift in Disney’s method to creating Star Wars content material, which has been largely consigned to streaming sequence as of late. Many new reveals, reminiscent of The Acolyte and Skeleton Crew, fell flat with followers and carried out weakly, making it look like that is extra of a meat-and-potatoes fashion return for the franchise.

Notably, it’s a real Star Wars sequel, with it set after The Rise of Skywalker. Right here’s what Disney acknowledged of their official launch:

“Star Wars: Starfighter,” which will likely be directed by Shawn Levy and star Ryan Gosling, is a standalone journey happening roughly 5 years after the occasions of 2019’s “Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker.” The movie, which is able to start manufacturing this Fall, is a completely new journey that includes all-new characters set in a time period that has not been explored on display screen but.

Beforehand, we reported that Mikey Madison had turned down a starring function within the movie. 

Levy, after all, lately helmed Marvel’s largest theatrical success in years, Deadpool & Wolverine, and earlier than that made three Evening on the Museum motion pictures, Free Man, Actual Metal, and extra.

In the meantime, Star Wars Celebration additionally unveiled the primary footage from The Mandalorian & Grogu, with THR reporting it provided a glimpse of The Mandalorian breaking into the cockpit of an AT-AT Walker and taking out a crew of stormtroopers. The footage additionally reportedly included the primary have a look at Sigourney Weaver’s character and a glimpse of Jeremy Allen White’s Rotta the Hutt.

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