Shawn Levy Celebrates “Star Wars: Starfighter” Wrapping Filming With New Image
It’s official—Star Wars: Starfighter has finished filming. We are that much closer to the first new Star Wars film since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, J.J. Abrams’ trilogy capper, which revealed that Rey (Daisy Ridley) is a direct descendant of Emperor Palpatine.
Director Shawn Levy shared the news on Instagram with a fresh look at himself—we’ve previously gotten a glimpse of Gosling and co-star Flynn Gray somewhere on the Mediterranean—running through an Inception-style corridor (he’s practically running on the wall). Levy is racing toward post-production on the hotly anticipated film.
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So what is Star Wars: Starfighter actually about? This is the part where we are required, by Galactic law, to state that the details are being kept sealed in carbonite. The broad strokes are that it’s a stand-alone film, meaning it is not a part of the Skywalker Saga, the mega-narrative that fueled all of George Lucas’s films and the three new Star Wars films—The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker. Levy’s film is set five years after The Rise of Skywalker and will feature new characters that are, presumably, not connected to Rey, Luke, Leia, and the rest of the Skywalker gang.
Star Wars: Starfighter boasts a very good cast to support Gosling and Gray, including the always excellent Amy Adams and rising star Aaron Pierre. They’re joined by Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, and Daniel Ings. It was previously announced that Mia Goth and Matt Smith are on board as villains.
“I feel a profound sense of excitement and honor as we begin production on Star Wars: Starfighter,” Levy said in a statement when production kicked off in the United Kingdom. “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. 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.”
Star Wars: Starfighter is scheduled for release on May 28, 2027. Before that, Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian & Grogu is set to hit theaters on May 22, 2026.
Featured image: Shawn Levy on the set of “Star Wars: Starfighter.” Courtesy Walt Disney Studios.
