Rylan Gosling has confirmed he will lead a new Star Wars film, with the title of the franchise's upcoming live-action story revealed.
The new Disney project is set to be released in two years’ time, and will be a "standalone story", meaning the action will not follow the main storyline of the Skywalker family or sequels starring British actress Daisy Ridley.
Titled Star Wars: Starfighter, the movie comes from Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy, and is set for a 7 May, 2027 release.
At the Star Wars Celebration in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Barbie actor Gosling said: "The reality is that this script is just so good. It has such a great story with great and original characters.
"It’s filled with so much heart and adventure, and there just really is not a more perfect filmmaker for this particular story than Shawn."
As the event showed his childhood Star Wars bedsheets on screen, Gosling added as "you can see from the picture, I guess I was probably dreaming about Star Wars before I even saw the film."
"And it’s probably framed my idea of what a movie even was," he said.
The Canadian actor, who was Oscar-nominated for playing Ken in the Barbie blockbuster, is known for musical La La Land, and romance The Notebook.
Levy said the new space adventure is "not a prequel, not sequel, it’s a new adventure. It’s set in a period of time that we haven’t seen explored yet".
His previous film Deadpool & Wolverine – starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman – was one of the highest-grossing movies of 2024, making more than one billion US dollars at the box office.
Not much is known about the plot for the new movie from the franchise, who has so far not been as successful with the live action spin-offs, aside from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story starring Diego Luna, compared with the main trilogies.
The next movie release is set to be The Mandalorian And Grogu, a sequel to the Disney+ series The Mandalorian starring Pedro Pascal as a bounty hunter that ends up caring for a force-sensitive creature that resembles the green-skinned Yoda.
Source: Press Association
