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Star Wars: Starfighter
When a cynical rogue is confronted by his mysterious past, he is hurled into a dangerous adventure across the galaxy that puts him on a crash course with destiny.
Why it matters
A standalone Star Wars film outside the Skywalker saga, and the franchise's return to cinemas after years of streaming-only expansion.
About Star Wars: Starfighter
Star Wars returns to theaters with Star Wars: Starfighter, a standalone film set roughly five years after The Rise of Skywalker and unconnected to the Skywalker family saga. Shawn Levy directs from a screenplay by Jonathan Tropper, and Ryan Gosling leads. Lucasfilm has released no plot details beyond that time frame, unusual discipline for a studio that normally trails its films years out. Levy's previous work runs to Free Guy, the Night at the Museum movies and Deadpool & Wolverine: comedy-leaning, actor-forward, and not especially mythological, which makes the tone here genuinely hard to predict.
It opens on May 28, 2027, and the slot matters as much as the story. This is the first Star Wars film in cinemas since 2019, after years in which the franchise expanded on Disney+ instead. Standalone entries have had mixed results, and this one has no existing characters to lean on. The flip side is that nothing about it is a sequel, which makes it the easiest point of entry the series has offered in a long while.
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