{"id":322265,"date":"2025-08-06T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322265\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:33:09","slug":"matt-smith-lands-villain-role-in-star-wars-starfighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322265\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Smith Lands Villain Role In Star Wars: Starfighter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Smith’s Infinity Gauntlet of nerdy IP is about to add another stone \u2014 and this one’s coming from a galaxy far, far away. Yes, having made bow ties cool with his stint as Doctor Who<\/a>‘s Eleventh Doctor, donned the blonde as Daemon Targaryen in House Of The Dragon<\/a>, thrown some shapes as bloodsucker Milo in SPUMC’s Morbius<\/a>, and been a T-5000 in Terminator Genisys<\/a>, Smith is getting ready to make the jump to lightspeed for Shawn Levy’s upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter<\/a>. Per Deadline<\/a>‘s reporting, Smith has landed a villainous role opposite Ryan Gosling’s heroic lead in the Deadpool & Wolverine<\/a> filmmaker’s first Star Wars feature.<\/p>\n

As we learned at this year’s Star Wars Celebration<\/a> in Tokyo, Starfighter \u2014 described specifically and repeatedly by Levy as “a standalone adventure with all-new characters” \u2014 is the first Star Wars film set after the events of The Rise Of Skywalker<\/a>, with the action set to take place five years after Rey and co’s last adventure. As you’d expect then, details on who exactly Smith will be playing are vanishingly thin at this stage \u2014 well, beyond sources noting that his is set to be a ‘key role’. Nevertheless, news of Smith’s casting is intriguing, following as it does less than two months on from the revelation that X trilogy<\/a> star Mia Goth will be Starfighter’s lead baddie<\/a>, a character rumoured to be the leader of a group of space ruffians who are out to get the young nephew of Gosling’s protagonist. It’ll be interesting then to see whether Smith’s character is part of Goth’s crew, or a threat coming from another angle at our hero.<\/p>\n

Penned by Levy’s The Adam Project<\/a> scribe Jonathan Tropper, Star Wars: Starfighter is due to start shooting in England later this year, with the movie currently due to release on 28 May, 2027, almost a year exactly after Jon Favreau’s 22 May, 2026 slated The Mandalorian And Grogu<\/a> arrives in cinemas. With one new Star War in the can, another casting up and locking in to film before 2025 is through, and a bunch more on the horizon (namely James Mangold’s\u00a0Dawn Of The Jedi<\/a>,\u00a0Taika Waititi’s untitled film<\/a>,\u00a0Simon Kinberg’s new trilogy<\/a>, and\u00a0Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s\u00a0New Jedi Order<\/a>), it seems there has been an awakening in the Force over at Lucasfilm. Have you felt it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Smith’s Infinity Gauntlet of nerdy IP is about to add another stone \u2014 and this one’s coming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114981372313572798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322265","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=322265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}