Details emerge about the upcoming Star Wars film by director Shawn Levy, known for 'Deadpool' and 'Stranger Things,' featuring Ryan Gosling in negotiations to join the cast.
The filmmaker behind Deadpool, Wolverine and the Night at the Museum movies, and one of the producers and directors of Stranger Things, has been developing an installment of the space saga with Lucasfilm since 2022. Many other prominent directors, ranging from Rian Johnson to Patty Jenkins and Taika Waititi, have been doing the same, though none of those projects have moved forward into production.
Lucasfilm has kept Star Wars in a feature-film holding pattern ever since 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, choosing to focus instead on Disney+ streaming shows like The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Andor, Ahsoka, and the recent Skeleton Crew and The Acolyte. Fans have been impatient for a return to movies, however, and next year’s The Mandalorian & Grogu (which recently wrapped principal photography) will bridge the streaming and cinematic universes. Levy and Gosling’s Star Wars film is poised to be the immediate follow-up to that streaming film—if a deal first revealed by Borys Kit of The Hollywood Reporter comes to fruition. Two sources confirm to Vanity Fair that the scene-stealer from Barbie is in talks to join Levy; together, they could rule the galaxy. Lucasfilm declined any official comment about what may or may not be in the works. In April 2023, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy announced at the Star Wars Celebration fan gathering that the company had plans to make three other films. One was a historical epic about the origins of the Force, from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny filmmaker, James Mangold, which would take place in the distant past of the Star Wars universe. Mangold’s movie may still happen, but he shifted focus after his Indiana Jones outing to make his planned Bob Dylan film, A Complete Unknown, with Timothée Chalamet. (Again, the availability of talent tends to dictate which projects move forward and which wait.) Another movie in the works was a return to Daisy Ridley’s Rey character, who went from a desperate scavenger in 2015’s The Force Awakens to a Force-powerful savior of the galaxy in The Rise of Skywalker. Lost producer Damon Lindelof had been developing a story about a much older Rey and the young Jedi she helped trained (with Helen Mirren reportedly topping the wish list of actors to play Rey), but that notion was abandoned in favor of following up with Ridley’s version of the hero, closer in time to when audiences would have last seen her. Oscar-winning short-film director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy was signed on to direct. The third project was The Mandalorian & Grogu, with Lucasfilm’s chief creative officer, Dave Filoni, at the helm. The writer-producer-director started out in the Star Wars universe working directly with Lucas on The Clone Wars animated series back in the mid-2000s, and over the decades has helped guide and shape its expanding story universe. His film, with Pedro Pascal returning as the masked bounty hunter alongside his little green ward, is now in postproduction and set for release on May 22, 2026. If Levy’s film signs Gosling and maintains its momentum, it could be in theaters by 2027. The screenplay has been drafted by author Jonathan Tropper, who previously worked with Levy on the grieving family comedy This Is Where I Leave You, based on Tropper’s own novel. “I’m happy that’s one secret I don’t have to keep keeping,” Levy told On Demand Entertainment at a sneak peek event to promote Deadpool & Wolverine. “We have an idea that’s really exciting to us, and exciting to Kathy Kennedy and Dave Filoni. One never knows if development reaches the starting gate, but my hope is that it will.” He and Tropper later collaborated on the time travel coming-of-age tale The Adam Project, with Ryan Reynolds, who had also starred in Levy’s 2021 comedy, Free Guy, about a video game’s background character who becomes self-aware. Levy and Reynolds would again team up on Deadpool & Wolverine with Hugh Jackman, another Levy collaborator from the 2011 boxing robot film Real Steel. In a 2023 interview with Josh Horowitz for Happy Sad Confused, Levy said: “I was one of those kids in the ’70s and ’80s. For some reason it’s Jedi that I remember seeing the most times in a theater. At least a dozen times. It definitely shaped me it.” Levy worked with cinematographer Dan Mindel (the director of photography on The Force Awakens) on a 2015 commercial for Duracell about a brother and sister powering up their lightsabers on Christmas morning with the batteries. Later in the spot, the little sister—dressed in a Rey costume—harnesses the Force to free herself from some stormtroopers. Although only a minute long, the ad became the subject of fan obsession because it hinted at Rey’s Jedi-like abilities more than a month before her big-screen appearance. Levy has been keen for a return to the galaxy far, far away ever since, although he has resisted revealing anything about his Star Wars story—not even who the main characters might b
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