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Shawn Levy is directing the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter film. He met with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy in the mid-2010s to discuss the project and officially entered talks to develop and direct it in November 2022.
Star Wars: Starfighter releases on the 28th of May 2027. The title was announced at Star Wars Celebration Japan in April 2025, which also confirmed this specific release window for the United States.
Ryan Gosling stars as the lead character while Mikey Madison and Mia Goth play female antagonists. Flynn Gray plays the nephew of Gosling's character alongside Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, and Amy Adams who portrays his mother.
Principal photography began on the 28th of August 2025 in the United Kingdom and continued in Sardinia, Italy. Filming took place across multiple locations including the Mediterranean Sea before wrapping on December 18.
Thomas Newman composes the score for Star Wars: Starfighter with a big-hearted and classically inspired approach. He joined the project after reading the script and hearing director Shawn Levy's vision to create something that feels like Star Wars without remixing John Williams's existing themes.