Lucasfilm Announces ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ for 2027

The new stand-alone ‘Star Wars’ movie, written by Jonathan Tropper, will fly into theaters on May 28th, 2027 and be titled ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’.

(L to R) 'Star Wars: Starfighter's Ryan Gosling and director Shawn Levy at Star Wars Celebration 2025. Photo: Lucasfilm.

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Lucasfilm has officially announced director Shawn Levy’s ‘Star Wars’ movie.
Ryan Gosling will star in the film, titled ‘Star Wars: Starfighter.’
It’ll be out on May 28th, 2027.

And just like that, Star Wars’ movie has made the leap from the rumor space to confirmed at hyper speed.

Star Wars: Starfighter

Not Yet Rated May 28th, 2027

Described “as a stand-alone adventure that takes place a few years after the events of 'The Rise of Skywalker'.” Read the Plot

Following Star Wars: Starfighter’ –– but it’ll be out in a couple of years’ time.

It’s certainly a bold move for the company, which has not released a movie since December 2019’s ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’ in theaters on May 22nd, 2026.

Here’s the tweet that Lucasfilm put out at the same time as Kennedy and Filoni were on stage:

Star Wars: Starfighter comes to theaters on May 28, 2027. #StarWarsCelebration pic.twitter.com/dsbVb3VdBY

— Star Wars (@starwars) April 18, 2025

What’s the story of Shawn Levy’s ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’?

'Star Wars: Starfighter's director Shawn Levy at Star Wars Celebration 2025. Photo: Lucasfilm.

With the official news out there, we now have a proper, if basic bit of detail for the movie. It’s described as “a standalone adventure taking place approximately five years after the events of 2019’s ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.’ It is an entirely new adventure featuring all-new characters set in a period of time that has not been explored on screen yet.”

We do know that Levy, despite being seemingly busy with 500 different projects at once has been developing his untitled ‘Star Wars’ movie since at least 2022.

(L to R) 'Star Wars: Starfighter's director Shawn Levy, Ryan Gosling, Dave Filoni and Kathleen Kennedy at Star Wars Celebration 2025. Photo: Lucasfilm.

Jonathan Tropper, who collaborated with Levy on films such as ‘The Adam Project,’ has been working on a script for over a year. Levy is also producing the feature via his 21 Laps banner, ing ‘Star Wars’ steward Kennedy.

Gosling’s deal has closed and production on the new movie will kick off in the fall, which means Levy will likely press pause on working on the Reynolds –– has been developing. Still, given Levy’s work ethic, we wouldn’t be surprised if he knocked that out this summer before diving into ‘Star Wars.’

What else does Ryan Gosling have going on?

'Star Wars: Starfighter's Ryan Gosling at Star Wars Celebration 2025. Photo: Lucasfilm.

Gosling, who was one of the key elements in 2023’s monster hit ‘The Fall Guy’ –– which was perfectly entertaining in our opinion –– failed to land at the box office and only earned $181 million from a $125 budget.

He’ll be back on our screens next year in another space-based project, as he’s in the lead in ‘Drew Goddard.

That one errs more towards the sci-fi than space opera, featuring an astronaut who has to try and save the planet. It’ll arrive on May 20th, 2026, and a first look was teased by CinemaCon presentation this month.

Behind the camera, Gosling is an executive producer on a Donald E. Westlake adaptation called ‘The Actor,’ though that movie has yet to land a release date.

And oddly, Gosling’s name has been linked with ‘Star Wars’ in the past, when rumors spread online in 2013 that he and Adam Driver).

Who else has been rumored for ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’?

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From the sounds of recent reports, Disney and Lucasfilm nearly had something else to announce about the movie.

Reporter Mikey Madison was in talks for a role in the movie a day or so ago.

But the same day, Resident Evil’ reboot.

What else is in development for big screen ‘Star Wars’?

(L to R) 'The Mandalorian & Grogu's Pedro Pascal, director Jon Favreau and Grogu at Star Wars Celebration 2025. Photo: Lucasfilm.

The Mandalorian & Grogu’ is first among ‘Star Wars’ equals right now, having shot last year and now speeding through post-production.

The Mandalorian & Grogu

Not Yet Rated May 22nd, 2026

The Mandalorian and Grogu are embarking on a new adventure — to movie theaters. Plot TBA. Read the Plot

Favreau and Filoni introduced a new clip from the movie and a sizzle reel at the Celebration event.

The main scene was action packed, with Snowtroopers inside an AT-AT preparing to engage in battle. Pedro Pascal’s Mandalorian cuts open into the hull of the AT-AT, then, in one continuous take, blasts, stabs, pyros, and fights his way through the Snowtroopers, making his way through the hull and then hallway, ending at the door of the cockpit, which quickly closes.

The sizzle reel, meanwhile, offered a glimpse at Jeremy Allen White-voiced Rotta the Hutt, the son of the crime lord Jabba the Hutt, raising his hands in triumph in some sort of fighting arena, and then cut to Grogu in the stands and eating what es for the Star Wars version of popcorn.

(L to R) 'The Mandalorian & Grogu's Pedro Pascal and Sigourney Weaver at Star Wars Celebration 2025. Photo: Lucasfilm.

‘Mandalorian’ co-creator and fellow steward Filoni is still putting the pieces together for his own film, while one that continues the story of Rey (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy but appears to keep hitting stumbling blocks and has been removed from the schedule for now.

And then there’s James Mangold’s film, which explores the origins of the Jedi and early force s and is awaiting a release date.

We’d guess that while Filoni (who promoted earlier this year to Chief Creative Officer at Lucasfilm) is still going full speed ahead on his movie, he’s also been busy figuring out a second season of ‘Ahsoka.’

Here’s what he said about that:

“I’m so well into that as well… I’ve been writing it, and I’m still the single writer on it, and so I’ve been enjoying doing that, but it's a challenge, of course, and working some of these arcs through has been a challenge and making sure it's all going to come out in a way that I think is exciting for fans. I know that they’re interested in where some of the things I developed in Season One. I’m pretty happy with it… Love working with Rosario [Dawson], so I can’t wait to get back to that.”

Beyond those, there are several movies (and potential trilogies) which don’t seem to be moving forward and may have been scrapped altogether, including new potential movies from ‘Rogue Squadron’ story of rebel pilots that appears to have had trouble leaving the development hanger.

When will ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ be in theaters?

(L to R) 'Star Wars: Starfighter's director Shawn Levy, Ryan Gosling, Dave Filoni and Kathleen Kennedy at Star Wars Celebration 2025. Photo: Lucasfilm.

With ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’ boasting a confirmed release date of May 22nd, 2026, we now have a second ‘Star Wars’ movie on the calendar.

‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ is now due to arrive on May 28th, 2027. Looks like Lucasfilm is finally ready to ramp back up to one movie a year from the galaxy far, far away.