{"id":439799,"date":"2026-01-27T02:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/439799\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:48:18","slug":"starfighter-to-skip-star-wars-cameos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/439799\/","title":{"rendered":"“Starfighter” To Skip “Star Wars” Cameos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Lucasfilm<\/p>\n

The other month, filmmaker Shawn Levy said his main goal with the upcoming Ryan Gosling-led \u201cStar Wars: Starfighter\u201d film is to do something \u2018fresh\u2019 with the franchise.<\/p>\n

The project has been dubbed an \u2018all-new standalone adventure\u2019 which takes us further into the future than the franchise has gone before \u2013 around five years after the defeat of Palpatine and the First Order in \u201cStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker\u201d.\t<\/p>\n

The story is rumoured to see Gosling\u2019s character protecting Flynn Grey\u2019s young character as he sets out on a mission to transport the kid somewhere safe. This has led to speculation that the \u2018safe\u2019 will be a new Jedi Academy run by Rey (Daisy Ridley), who would theoretically cameo.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s writer Jonathan Tropper has now debunked that rumour, telling Screen Rant<\/a> one of the key elements of the film is that the characters here are entirely new to the world and fan service is pretty much off the table:<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, lightsabers are a part of that universe and that part of that galaxy. I\u2019m so careful not to reveal anything, but essentially, I think it\u2019s known that we have no legacy characters. You\u2019re not going to see any of the characters you\u2019ve seen in the other movies. So there are certain things that are still hallmarks of Star Wars that it\u2019s good to have in there. But more than that, I can\u2019t say.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cStar Wars: The Last Jedi\u201d director Rian Johnson matched Levy\u2019s sentiment about \u2018freshness\u2019 at Sundance on the weekend, telling Variety<\/a>: \u201cAs a Star Wars fan, the most exciting thing for me is always seeing when they bring in fresh voices and fresh filmmakers to come in and tell new stories in that world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, and Amy Adams co-star in the film, which is currently on track to hit cinemas on May 28th 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucasfilm The other month, filmmaker Shawn Levy said his main goal with the upcoming Ryan Gosling-led \u201cStar Wars:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":["post-439799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}