This May’s The Mandalorian and Grogu will bring Disney+’s biggest TV series to theaters, but Lucasfilm will move beyond the Skywalker Saga next year with filmmaker Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter.<\/p>\n
Set\u00a05 years after the events of\u00a0The Rise of Skywalker, we’re heading into uncharted territory. It was recently revealed<\/a> that Starfighter is going to feature lightsaber battles, suggesting there will still\u00a0be enough Jedi (and Sith?) action for longtime Star Wars fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n Screen Rant<\/a>\u00a0(via SFFGazette.com<\/a>) recently spoke with Starfighter writer Jonathan Tropper, who confirmed that he and Levy set out to “tell a completely new story” with the movie. He added that they “weren’t bound by any structures of the past movies,” and reiterated that this adventure won’t feature appearances from any “legacy characters.”<\/p>\n “Obviously, lightsabers are a part of that universe and that part of that Galaxy,” Tropper shared. “I’m so careful not to reveal anything, but essentially, I think it’s known that we have no legacy characters. You’re not going to see any of the characters you’ve seen in the other movies.”<\/p>\n “So there are certain things that are still hallmarks of Star Wars that it’s good to have in there. But more than that, I can’t say.”<\/p>\n Unless it’s planned as a major surprise, this presumably means we won’t see Daisy Ridley’s Rey Skywalker. During a recent interview with USA Today<\/a>, the actress was asked if we can expect news on the character’s planned solo outing this year\u00a0and replied, “I don’t know about 2026. In the future sometime, yeah.”<\/p>\n