{"id":382779,"date":"2025-08-29T15:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382779\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T15:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:36:18","slug":"ryan-gosling-and-matt-smiths-entirely-original-star-wars-movie-confirms-cast-as-filming-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/382779\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Gosling and Matt Smith’s “entirely original” Star Wars movie confirms cast as filming starts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucasfilm has just announced the full cast and release date for the new Star Wars movie, officially titled Star Wars: Starfighter. <\/p>\n

Joining the previously announced Ryan Gosling as the lead star<\/a>, as well as House of the Dragon’s Matt Smith<\/a> and Frankenstein’s Mia Goth as villains, the cast has added Amy Adams and Rebel Ridge star Aaron Pierre. <\/p>\n

Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Flynn Gray and The Gentlemen’s Daniel Ings round up the line-up for the upcoming film, helmed by Deadpool and Wolverine’s Shawn Levy. <\/p>\n

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With production starting this week, the movie is set to be released in 2027. <\/p>\n

Described as a standalone adventure with an “entirely original story”, Starfighter is set in a period of time “never before explored” in the Star Wars franchise. <\/p>\n

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ICON<\/p>\n

Related: How<\/strong> to watch Star Wars in chronological order<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“I feel a profound sense of excitement and honor as we begin production on Star Wars: Starfighter,” said Levy in an official statement (via StarWars.com<\/a>). <\/p>\n

“From the day Kathy Kennedy called me up, inviting me to develop an original adventure in this incredible Star Wars galaxy, this experience has been a dream come true, creatively and personally. <\/p>\n

“Star Wars shaped my sense of what story can do, how characters and cinematic moments can live with us forever. To join this storytelling galaxy with such brilliant collaborators onscreen and off, is the thrill of a lifetime.” <\/p>\n

\"matt<\/p>\n

BFI<\/p>\n

Related: Best streaming services UK 2025 \u2014 including Disney Plus, Netflix, iPlayer and Apple TV+<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Per The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Starfighter takes place approximately five years after the events of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, released in 2019. Most details about the script, penned by Jonathan Tropper, are still under wraps. <\/p>\n

As the new movie starts filming soon, the sci-fi franchise is gearing up for the release of The Mandalorian & Grogu next year. <\/p>\n

The film will see Pedro Pascal reprise his role as Din Djarin from the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, with Sigourney Weaver<\/a> and The Bear star Jeremy Allen White co-starring. <\/p>\n

Star Wars: Starfighter will be released on 28 May, 2027.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mireia (she\/her) has been working as a movie and TV journalist for over eight years. Based in the UK, she is a former deputy movies editor at Digital Spy<\/strong>, and previously worked for the Spanish magazine Fotogramas<\/a>. Mireia’s work has been published in other outlets such as Esquire<\/a> and Elle<\/a> in Spain, and WeLoveCinema<\/a> and GamesRadar+<\/a> in the UK. She is also a published author, having written the essay Biblioteca Studio Ghibli: Nicky, la aprendiz de bruja<\/a> about Hayao Miyazaki’s Kiki’s Delivery Service.
During her years as a freelance journalist and film critic, Mireia has covered festivals around the world and has interviewed high-profile talents such as Kristen Stewart, Ryan Gosling, Jake Gyllenhaal and many more. She’s also taken part in juries such as the FIPRESCI jury at Venice Film Festival and the short film jury at Kingston International Film Festival in London. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm has just announced the full cast and release date for the new Star Wars movie, officially titled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[1380,132976,1331,77,1330,3943,132975,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-382779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-d9addd0b-28cf-49b5-bf53-4d300a4cdfba","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-locale-gb","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-shorttitle-new-star-wars-movie-confirms-cast-as-filming-starts","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115112796879341036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382779","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=382779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}