Star Wars: Starfighter stars Ryan Gosling and hits theaters in 2027

A caller theatrical Star Wars movie is connected the mode — and this time, it really has a premiere date. At Star Wars Celebration successful Japan, Lucasfilm announced Star Wars: Starfighter, a standalone diagnostic that is acceptable 5 years aft The Rise of Skywalker.

It’s being directed by Shawn Levy, who astir precocious directed Deadpool & Wolverine, and volition prima Ryan Gosling. Production is owed to statesman this fall, and the movie volition deed theaters connected May 28th, 2027. The caller movie is described arsenic “an wholly caller escapade featuring all-new characters acceptable successful a play of clip that has not been explored connected surface yet.”

Lucasfilm has struggled to get Star Wars projects into theaters following The Rise of Skywalker successful 2019, adjacent though galore person either been announced oregon rumored since then. Levy’s engagement successful the Star Wars beingness had been rumored for immoderate time. In a blog post, Lucasfilm says that those different projects are inactive successful development, including “films by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold, Taika Waititi, and a caller trilogy by Simon Kinberg.”

Starfighter isn’t the lone upcoming Star Wars movie connected the docket however, arsenic it volition beryllium preceded by the Mandalorian spinoff The Mandalorian & Grogu, which volition deed theaters connected May 22nd, 2026.