Oscar-nominated actor Ryan Gosling will star in a new Star Wars film that will reach movie theatres in May 2027, Walt Disney's Lucasfilm has announced.
Star Wars: Starfighter will take place five years after the events of 2019's The Rise of Skywalker, a Lucasfilm statement said on Thursday.
The movie is "an entirely new adventure featuring all-new characters set in a period of time that has not been explored on screen yet," the statement said.
Shawn Levy will direct and production will start in the autumn. Levy directed Marvel's 2024 Deadpool & Wolverine film and episodes of Netflix's TV series Stranger Things.
Gosling has been nominated for three Oscars, most recently for his role as Ken in 2023's Barbie.
Star Wars, the science-fiction franchise created by George Lucas in 1977 and set in a galaxy far, far away, has brought in more than $US5.1 billion ($A8 billion) at global box offices.
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