{"id":712731,"date":"2026-07-26T23:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712731\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T23:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:49:10","slug":"star-wars-starfighter-team-reunites-for-marvel-new-luke-and-leia-novel-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712731\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Team Reunites for Marvel, New Luke and Leia Novel, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Sunday, and welcome to a new edition of \u201cThis Week, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away<\/a>\u201c. We are barely 10 days away from the release of a new anime\u00a0Star Wars series, in the\u00a0Visions spin-off\u00a0The Ninth Jedi. But today, it\u2019s a SDCC-themed edition of this column, as I\u2019ll be recapping everything that happened at the convention, from direct\u00a0Star Wars announcements to other news that may have\u00a0Star Wars implications.<\/p>\n

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Before we get to that, let me plug Thursday\u2019s fun conversation on\u00a0SWNN Live!<\/a>, where I joined Tom and Tyler to discuss the lasting implications of\u00a0The Rise of Skywalker\u2018s release over the franchise. As usual, we also gave some non-Star Wars recommendations; wanna guess what Tyler recommended? Elsewhere, Josh published a new Character Spotlight on Cara Dune<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Last but not least, as usual, you can sign up for our Discord server using this link here<\/a>. Let us get started.<\/p>\n

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Gaming news: We got a few tidbits from\u00a0Zero Company throughout the week. Bit Reactor recently hosted a Q&A on Discord, and published the highlights online \u2014 we recapped them here<\/a>. The game was also featured at an SDCC panel, where the collector\u2019s edition was announced, and the first theme from the score was released<\/a>. Zero Company comes out a month from now.
\nMore details on the museum: We learned a few days ago that there will be a traveling Star Wars-themed museum that will open its doors in Philadelphia next year. At SDCC, we learned<\/a> that this will be the first city of several in North America the exhibition will visit over five years. They will be in Philly between February and September.
\nPublishing updates:\u00a0The SDCC panels also brought a lot of news for comics and upcoming novels \u2014 most importantly, a new novel<\/a> titled Star Wars: Twin Crossroads by Beth Ravis, which follows Luke and Leia after\u00a0Return of the Jedi and will feature Leia\u2019s training. In time for the 50th anniversary, we\u2019ll also get<\/a> audiobooks of the original trilogy novelizations, along with a new nonfiction book from Anthony Breznican and Pablo Hidalgo titled\u00a0Star Wars: A Celebration. There were also plenty of comics announcements, including a Phineas and Ferb crossover, which you can check out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This Week, In Star Wars-Adjacent News<\/p>\n

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By now, you may have already seen that Ryan Gosling will officially be Ghost Rider in an upcoming Marvel Studios movie. The interesting part for this column, though, is who he\u2019s teaming up with. As announced at the Marvel panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Gosling will star in a 2028 movie directed by Shawn Levy and written by Jonathan Tropper \u2014 precisely the trio behind Star Wars: Starfighter, which comes out next year.<\/p>\n

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The logical conclusion here is that Disney is pretty happy with how\u00a0Starfighter turned out, so much so that they got the band back together. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige also said during the Hall H panel that he\u2019s seen the new movie and loved it. So there is a lot of reason for optimism for\u00a0Star Wars fans. But to me, my main read comes from the other side: it feels to me like Gosling was so happy with Shawn Levy on the set of the movie that when he got the call to make a Ghost Rider movie, he had just the man for the job.<\/p>\n

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Pretty much everyone involved in or who has seen\u00a0Starfighter is singing its praises \u2014 and though I\u2019m not putting too much weight on that just yet, it\u2019s at least nice to hear. With just a few more weeks to go until D23, where footage from the film may be shown publicly for the first time, things are looking quite well for the project now. I would expect the first trailer to play before\u00a0Avengers. Doomsday and\u00a0Dune: Part Three in December.<\/p>\n

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I did have another thought, though: I guess there will not be a\u00a0Starfighter sequel anytime soon, right?<\/p>\n

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What did you think of the latest edition of \u201cThis Week, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away\u201d? Let me know your thoughts on\u00a0 the latest on Zero Company, upcoming comics, or a Ryan Gosling-led\u00a0Ghost Rider movie down below!<\/p>\n

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Have a great week!<\/p>\n

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Miguel Fern\u00e1ndez is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings,\u00a0but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Sunday, and welcome to a new edition of \u201cThis Week, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away\u201c. We…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,2591,38499,38500,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-712731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-star-wars","tag-starfighter","tag-this-week-far-far-away","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}