Starfighter Begins Filming, Casts Amy Adams, Aaron Pierre & Extra

Many new stars have joined the forged of Star Wars: Starfighter as manufacturing on the film kicks off. The upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter is a standalone installment within the iconic science fiction franchise that’s being directed by Deadpool & Wolverine‘s Shawn Levy and set to happen 5 years after the occasions of 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker.

The film, which is about to be the following Star Wars installment in theaters after 2026’s The Mandalorian and Grogu, will star Ryan Gosling. It was additionally beforehand revealed that Matt Smith (Physician Who, Home of the Dragon) and Mia Goth (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) will likely be enjoying two antagonists within the film.

Per the official Star Wars web site, Starfighter started filming at this time within the UK. The total forged of the film has now been revealed. Six-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams has joined the ensemble of Starfighter alongside Aaron Pierre, Flynn Grey, Simon Fowl, Jamael Westman, and Daniel Ings.

Under, see a publish asserting the graduation of manufacturing from the official Star Wars X account. The black-and-white picture featured within the publish options Ryan Gosling and Flynn Grey sitting collectively on a small floating craft.

Shawn Levy additionally issued a press release concerning the manufacturing, which may be learn beneath:

I really feel a profound sense of pleasure and honor as we start manufacturing on Star Wars: Starfighter. From the day Kathy Kennedy known as me up, inviting me to develop an unique journey on this unimaginable Star Wars galaxy, this expertise has been a dream come true, creatively and personally. Star Wars formed my sense of what story can do, how characters and cinematic moments can stay with us endlessly. To hitch this storytelling galaxy with such good collaborators onscreen and off, is the fun of a lifetime.

What This Means For Star Wars: Starfighter

Up to now, the plot of the upcoming Star Wars film has remained tightly underneath wraps. Nevertheless, the picture shared within the announcement publish appears to suggest that Ryan Gosling’s character is in a roundabout way a protector or mentor determine to the character performed by Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 star Flynn Grey.

This could evoke an adult-child relationship that’s widespread all through the Star Wars franchise and has been on the core of installments resembling The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Skeleton Crew, and The Phantom Menace.

Our Take On The Star Wars: Starfighter Solid

Whereas it has not but been introduced what characters any of the forged of the Ryan Gosling film will likely be enjoying, the incoming actors who’re becoming a member of Starfighter could provide some perception into the general tone of the film.

As an example, whereas a few of the forged have expertise in main science fiction and fantasy tasks, together with Amy Adams (Arrival, Enchanted) and Aaron Pierre (The Underground Railroad, Mufasa: The Lion King, Krypton), nearly all of them have extra expertise within the comedy realm, together with Simon Fowl (The Inbetweeners) and Daniel Ings (Lovesick).

This might point out that Star Wars: Starfighter will mix sci-fi and comedy within the method that Shawn Levy has develop into recognized for after helming latest tasks resembling Deadpool & Wolverine, The Adam Undertaking, and Free Man.