Ryan Gosling’s Star Wars film is kicking into hyper-speed. At a Star Wars Celebration event in Tokyo this past April, Shawn Levy and Gosling appeared onstage to officially announce that their upcoming new Star Wars film was titled Star Wars: Starfighter. Months later on August 28, the official Star Wars website revealed the first look at Starfighter along with some major additions to the cast.“There are many rumors, some true, some not,” the Deadpool & Wolverine director teased about the film at Star Wars Celebration. “This is not a prequel; this is not a sequel. It’s a new adventure.”Levy’s words echo previous reports that Star Wars: Starfighter takes place five years after the event of The Rise of Skywalker (2019). The story supposedly takes place outside of the Skywalker canon. Gosling called the film “such a great story with great and original characters” at the Tokyo expo. “There is not a more perfect filmmaker for this particular story than Shawn.”The stand-alone Star Wars entry is set for release May 28, 2027. Though it may seem far away, a release date is a huge deal for Star Wars fans. Potential Star Wars films by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, Taika Waititi, and Patty Jenkins all fell out of production over the past few years. Hopefully, Gosling and Levy change all that. The film enters production this fall.What Is Star Wars: Starfighter About?Currently, it’s unclear whether the new film has any connection to the 2001 video game of the same name. Star… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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