Filmmaker Shawn Levy has revealed that his upcoming and currently shooting “Star Wars: Starfighter” feature has undergone a major change during production.
Set roughly five years after the events of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” Ryan Gosling leads the film as a character who must protect a young boy (Flynn Gray).
It has been rumored the boy has Force powers and will potentially end up at a Jedi temple to ultimately train with Rey (Daisy Ridley) but that’s only been speculation.
Speaking on the On Film… With Kevin McCarthy podcast recently, the “A Night at the Museum” and “Deadpool vs. Wolverine” director says the original plan for the film’s third act has been tossed out because a better idea came along:
“We had a whole different idea for something in the third act, and then things didn’t align, and I was forced to come up with a new idea. And I’m literally right now shooting that section of the movie. And every day, I’m grateful that the way I was supposed to do it didn’t work out, because the new idea that it forced me to explore is so much better than the original idea would have been.”
Levy says working on a “Star Wars” movie is a completely different experience to working on some of the other blockbusters he’s been involved in:
“It’s harder and a more unique pressure than any other movie you can make because you go into it understanding how deeply emotional the connection with audiences is. You could argue that’s true of Marvel, that’s true of other franchises, but nothing is as religious an allegiance as Star Wars. And so, the need, the pressure, self-inflicted mostly, to get it right – that’s intense.”
Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, and Amy Adams also star in the film which Levy directs from a screenplay by Jonathan Tropper.
“Star Wars: Starfighter” opens in cinemas on May 28th 2027.
