Starfighter’ Casts Mia Goth as Villain

Within the grand custom of Darth Vader, the Emperor, and Kylo Ren, meet the newest Star Wars villain: Mia Goth, the star of X, Pearl, and MaXXXine.

Goth will seem reverse Ryan Gosling within the not too long ago introduced Star Wars: Starfighter, a standalone movie that’s being directed by Deadpool & Wolverine’s Shawn Levy.

Based on The Hollywood Reporter, “particulars on the venture are scant, nevertheless it does contain Gosling taking part in a personality that should defend a younger cost in opposition to evil pursuers.” Goth performs one of many “evil pursuers.” They observe that she is going to play “the identical position that Mikey Madison had been circling earlier than her deal blew up like a Demise Star — over cash issues.”

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After a few years in cinematic limbo, the Star Wars franchise is lastly ramping up movie manufacturing once more. The latest Star Wars function, The Rise of Skywalker, opened in theaters means again in 2019. Since then, the collection has centered totally on TV exhibits for Disney+. Lucasfilm introduced some potential movie tasks throughout this era, however each single certainly one of them wound up trapped in growth hell.

The truth is, the one Star Wars movie that truly made it into manufacturing grew out of the TV aspect of the enterprise: The upcoming The Mandalorian & Grogu, which is able to proceed the story of the favored Disney+ Mandalorian present. That movie is predicted to open in theaters in Could of 2026.

Lucasfilm formally introduced Starfighter earlier this spring at Star Wars Celebration. On the time, Levy claimed the movie could be a “stand-alone” film and “not a prequel, not a sequel.” It’s supposedly set throughout a time interval that hadn’t beforehand been explored in a Star Wars film.

Star Wars: Starfighter is at the moment scheduled to open in theaters on Could 28, 2027.