{"id":321092,"date":"2025-08-05T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/321092\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:57:10","slug":"starfighter-casts-matt-smith-as-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/321092\/","title":{"rendered":"Starfighter’ Casts Matt Smith As Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>After fighting battles for House Targaryen, Matt Smith<\/a> is ready to take his next fight to a galaxy far, far, away. Sources tell Deadline that the House of the Dragon star is on board to join Ryan Gosling<\/a> in Lucasfilm\u2019s\u00a0Star Wars: Starfighter<\/a>. Mia Goth<\/a> is also on board, with Shawn Levy directing the pic. Jonathan Tropper penned the script.<\/p>\n

\n\tLucasfilm and reps for Smith could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film will shoot this fall and is set to bow on May 28, 2027. While exact details are vague on who Smith will be playing, sources say it will be one of the villain roles. Casting has been gearing up on the project over the past couple of weeks, with Levy meeting with a number of actors for this key role; sources say execs made the decision to go with Smith to play the next great villain in the Star Wars universe.<\/p>\n

\n\tDetails of Starfighter<\/a> were unveiled in April at the Star Wars Celebration event in Tokyo. The film is set five years after the events of\u00a0Star Wars: Episode IX \u2014 The Rise of Skywalker, which concluded the Skywalker saga and currently stands as the final feature chronologically on the\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0timeline.<\/p>\n

\n\tSmith is coming off the second season of HBO\u2019s hit Game of Thrones spinoff series House of the Dragon, with the third season set to go into production next year. Next up, he has the Sony and Darren Aronofsky thriller Caught Stealing<\/a> in which he stars opposite Austin Butler. He also has the limited series The Death of Bunny Monro.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe is repped by UTA, B-Side Management and Michael Duff at Maison Two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: After fighting battles for House Targaryen, Matt Smith is ready to take his next fight to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[116269,77,116270,3943,116271,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-321092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-caught-stealing","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-matt-smith","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-star-wars-starfighter","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114978871351969093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}