{"id":396778,"date":"2026-01-09T07:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396778\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:12:07","slug":"shawn-levy-let-tom-cruise-operate-a-star-wars-starfighter-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396778\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Levy Let Tom Cruise Operate A &#8216;Star Wars: Starfighter&#8217; Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFrom naval fighter jets to galactic starfighters, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tom-cruise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tom Cruise<\/a> is mastering another Hollywood trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/star-wars-starfighter\">Star Wars: Starfighter<\/a> director <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/shawn-levy\">Shawn Levy<\/a> recently raved about having the 3x Golden Globe-winning actor work a camera on the set of his upcoming installment, which is set to premiere in theaters on May 28, 2027 in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cLast week <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/steven-spielberg\">Steven Spielberg<\/a> was here. And now Tom Cruise is wielding a camera, ruining his very nice shoes,\u201d he told <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/08\/movies\/shawn-levy-star-wars-stranger-things.html\">The New York Times<\/a> after suggesting Cruise walk into ankle-length pond water to operate a camera during a scene with a lightsaber duel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cNow when you see the movie, you\u2019ll know that part of it was shot by Tom,\u201d added Levy. \u201cI mean, how cool is that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Times visited the upcoming Star Wars movie\u2019s UK set on the same day in November that Cruise dropped by in a helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/swars-e1767927664337.png\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"614\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRyan Gosling and Flynn Gray on the set of \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/star-wars-starfighter\/\" id=\"auto-tag_star-wars-starfighter\" data-tag=\"star-wars-starfighter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars: Starfighter<\/a>\u2018<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tShawn Levy via Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA standalone film outside the Skywalker saga, Starfighter is set five years after Star Wars: Episode IX \u2014 The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Penned by Jonathan Tropper, the movie stars Ryan Gosling, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, Flynn Gray and Amy Adams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From naval fighter jets to galactic starfighters, Tom Cruise is mastering another Hollywood trade. 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