Overview
- Lucasfilm formally announced the film title Star Wars: Starfighter and a wide theatrical release date of May 28, 2027 following a presentation at D23.
- A closed-door teaser shown to attendees on Friday featured action-packed clips and has not been released online, creating a staged rollout for future marketing.
- Ryan Gosling will star as pilot Kade Auberon, introduced onstage with a skull-and-crossbones jacket emblem, and the principal cast includes Flynn Gray, Amy Adams, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, and Daniel Ings.
- The teaser introduced a decommissioned G17 starfighter described as the fastest ever built and showed sequences of ships, speeder bikes, ocean typhoons, droids, and a robot co-pilot filmed with cinematographer Claudio Miranda.
- Production reportedly wrapped at the end of 2025 and Lucasfilm is positioning this standalone, later-period story—set roughly five years after The Rise of Skywalker—as a franchise expansion intended to refresh Star Wars on the big screen.