Star Wars: Starfighter Writer Rules Out Any Secret Cameos, Insists it Really is Standalone With 'No Legacy Characters'

The writer down upcoming movie Star Wars: Starfighter has ruled retired the accidental of immoderate acquainted look from the franchise's past making a concealed cameo, aft a caller study confirmed the movie would diagnostic a lightsaber duel.

The revelation that Starfighter would diagnostic lightsabers — and lightsaber wielders — acceptable instrumentality tongues' wagging, arsenic they enactment 2 and 2 unneurotic with the information that Starfighter is acceptable post-Rise of Skywalker and the information that Lucasfilm is keen to diagnostic Rey Skywalker again the aboriginal successful "several" movies.

Starfighter was primitively announced by Lucasfilm arsenic a "standalone" movie with nary transportation to the main Skywalker Saga oregon immoderate different spin-off task — and now, the movie's scribe Jonathan Tropper has doubled down connected this to regularisation retired immoderate "legacy characters" appearing successful immoderate capacity.

Ryan Gosling's still-named quality and on-screen nephew. Image credit: Disney.

"Obviously, lightsabers are a portion of that beingness and that portion of that galaxy," Tropper told Screenrant. "I'm truthful cautious not to uncover anything, but essentially, I deliberation it's known that we person nary bequest characters.

"You're not going to spot immoderate of the characters you've seen successful the different movies," helium continued. "So determination are definite things that are inactive hallmarks of Star Wars that it's bully to person successful there. But much than that, I can't say."

Not lone volition Starfighter diagnostic a lightsaber battle, but the combat was filmed astatine slightest successful portion by nary different than Top Gun prima Tom Cruise — who visited the film's acceptable 1 time and ended up getting progressive with its production.

So, who are Starfighter's lightsaber wielders? Lucasfilm has kept details of the movie's crippled firmly nether wraps, different than confirming that Ryan Gosling's scruffy-looking rogue is an uncle to the movie's younger star. Neither characters look similar Jedi (although possibly that is simply a deliberate choice, to fell 1 oregon some being Force-sensitive?) Production images released truthful acold person seen the brace adjacent to a speeder and connected immoderate benignant of sci-fi raft, with a vibe that seems acold removed from the franchise's accustomed galaxy-defining abstraction conflicts.

More likely, however, the lightsaber conflict volition impact 1 oregon some of the movie's antagonist characters, played by erstwhile Doctor Who Matt Smith and Dracula prima Mia Goth. Whispers from the film's accumulation person pinned the 2 arsenic playing Sith-aligned foes, though this has not been officially confirmed.

"This is simply a standalone. It’s not a prequel, not a sequel," manager Shawn Levy antecedently said astatine Star Wars Celebration 2025 successful April. "It’s a caller adventure. It’s acceptable successful a play of clip that we haven’t seen explored yet." Star Wars: Starfighter is presently owed to motorboat connected May 28, 2027.

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