Ryan Gosling and Shawn Levy - Star Wars celebration

Ryan Gosling and Shawn Levy – Star Wars celebration – can’t wait to see it!

Ryan gosling and Shawn Levy – Star Wars celebration

Star Wars producer Lucasfilm has officially confirmed that a standalone film in the series, starring Ryan Gosling, will go ahead.

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and chief creative officer Dave Filoni announced the news at the Star Wars Celebration event in Tokyo, with the film’s title revealed as Star Wars: Starfighter and a projected release date in May 2027.

Gosling told the audience: “Being here and seeing all of you [makes it] more inspiring to do it … It’s such a great reminder of how much movies can mean to us, specifically how much these movies mean to us … All we can hope for is: ‘May the fans be with us.’”

Starfighter is to be directed by Shawn Levy, whose previous film Deadpool & Wolverine was a record-breaking success on its release in 2024, with a screenplay by Your Friends & Neighbors’ Jonathan Tropper.

Levy told the audience: “We’re fans, too. There’s obviously a relationship between these stories and the audience, but we’ve spent our lives in that audience. We know how meaningful it is.”