Ryan Gosling In Talks For Shawn Levy’s ‘Star Wars’ Movie – Deadline
By Anthony D’Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office Editor
We hear that it’s true — the Barbie superstar is in talks to join Shawn Levy’s Star Wars movie.
Levy and Jonathan Tropper have been working on their Star Wars movie for two years. There is an untitled Star Wars movie on the release calendar for December 17, 2027. The next Star Wars movie is The Mandalorian and Grogu scheduled for May 22, 2026. Tropper co-wrote the Levy movies The Adam Project and This Is Where I Leave You.
Levy is a must-have, must-keep director for Disney: he delivered them the highest grossing R-rated movie of all-time with Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine which grossed $1.33 billion worldwide.
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While details are under wraps for the latest Lucasfilm movie, it is reportedly not connected to the Luke Skywalker core canon of Episodes I-IX, and will be a standalone movie. The new hope out there is that it goes into production this fall. Duly note, there is a Star Wars Celebration this year in Tokyo, so expect more details.
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The last Star Wars movie was in 2019 with The Rise of Skywalker, Episode IX. The pic grossed $515.2M and $1.077 billion worldwide. Disney originally had a plan to do standalone movies about each canon main character, how the origins story title Solo: A Star Wars Story flopped with $213.7M stateside and under $330M worldwide. This sent Lucasfilm largely to Disney+ to exploit deeper stories via series that mass Star Wars fans might otherwise clutch their pearls over on the big screen, i.e. the series Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Book of Boba Fett (the latter originally anticipated to be a feature with James Mangold directing). In sum, it’s been safe for Disney to explore and experiment with the deeper universe of Star Wars in streaming series.
A Gosling Star Wars movie would be big money: With Barbie he helped deliver Warner Bros. their highest grossing movie ever with $1.44 billion. He’s a 3x Oscar nominated actor for Barbie (Best Supporting Actor), La La Land (Lead Actor) and Half Nelson (Lead Actor).
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