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  • Massive ‘STAR WARS: STARFIGHTER’ Leak Unmasks Characters, a New Jedi Planet, and a Tom Cruise Mud Duel

    Massive ‘STAR WARS: STARFIGHTER’ Leak Unmasks Characters, a New Jedi Planet, and a Tom Cruise Mud Duel

    The galaxy far, far away just suffered one its biggest structural information breach in years. With director Shawn Levy’s highly anticipated blockbuster Star Wars: Starfighter locked to blast onto IMAX screens next May, a massive wave of seemingly authenticated plot and casting leaks has spilled onto the web.

    Published by industry insider MakingStarWars, the extensive breakdown formally unmasks the core character archetypes, a pristine new Jedi hideout, and some incredibly wild, star-studded lightsaber skirmishes.

    Here is the breakdown of the major secrets that just slipped past Lucasfilm’s Gammorean guards.

    1. The Core Cast and Han Solo Dynamic

    The leak details the film’s lead duo, revealing a heavy emphasis on emotional chemistry:

    • The Protagonists: Flynn Gray anchors the film as a young character named Cade (using an American accent). He is heavily paired with Ryan Gosling, whose character’s name sounds like “Rone” or “Ronin”. Early narrative drafts establish that Gosling’s character was originally the absolute best friend of Cade’s father.
    • The Dynamic: Described as a rogue, Han Solo-style smuggler archetype, Gosling’s mission is to safely transport young Cade across the galaxy. Cade prominently wears a highly specific, plot-important necklace, while Oscar-winner Amy Adams is locked in to play the child’s mother. Insiders note that Levy’s proven track record directing young actors on Stranger Things paid off massively here, with Gosling and Gray reportedly displaying “tremendous” on-screen chemistry.

    2. The Planet Adaria: A Muddy Jedi Sanctuary

    The central destination for Gosling’s transport mission is a brand-new terrestrial planet named Adaria.

    • The Aesthetic: Adaria is described as a lush, deeply green location inspired by East Asian architecture, heavily crowded with tiki-style huts and a stark, muddy terrain. On set, massive mechanical struts—heavily implied to be colossal starship landing gear—were constructed.
    • The Legacy: The planet functions as a secret, sacred Jedi refuge and academy. Set witnesses report seeing a crowd of background Jedi designed to resemble Padawans, heavily mirroring the youthful Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker aesthetics from the end of The Phantom Menace.

    3. Mud Duels and a 650-Year-Old Cantina Owner

    The leak dropped some incredibly intriguing details regarding the film’s massive physical action sequences:

    • The Lightsaber Clashes: Remember those wild rumors about Tom Cruise making a surprise cameo on set? The leak confirms that Cruise physically filmed a high-octane lightsaber duel taking place directly in the deep mud of Adaria. Furthermore, a parallel, plot-heavy duel on the planet features Mia Goth locking sabers against Aaron Pierre, with Pierre’s character deeply tied to the Adaria sanctuary.
    • Eva Mendes’ Secret Role: In a brilliant bit of real-world crossover casting, Ryan Gosling’s wife, Eva Mendes, makes her franchise debut as a heavily glammed-out, alien cantina owner named Belle. The character is a non-human entity who is roughly 650 years old, sporting a wildly distinct aesthetic composed of gold skin-tight pants, a corset, and a sweeping golden cape.

    The film is moving at light speed. Following highly exclusive footage packages shown behind closed doors to theater owners at CineEurope, actor Matt Smith recently verified that Levy has already compiled a fully watchable, rough cut of the entire movie.

    Star Wars: Starfighter officially lands in theaters and IMAX in May 2027.

  • Major ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Plot Leak Discloses Roles for Ryan Gosling, Mia Goth, and More

    Major ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Plot Leak Discloses Roles for Ryan Gosling, Mia Goth, and More

    While the galaxy is currently chewing on Jon Favreau’s safe and nostalgic The Mandalorian and Grogu, director Shawn Levy (Deadpool & Wolverine) is heading toward an entirely untamed frontier. A massive new plot leak has revealed the first concrete details regarding the secretive characters played by Ryan Gosling, Mia Goth, and Amy Adams in Star Wars: Starfighter.

    Set five years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker, the May 28, 2027 standalone film is positioning itself as a high-stakes, big-hearted family space adventure—but with a heavy dose of criminal underworld grit.

    The leak, from @fiveswalker, confirms that Ryan Gosling is playing the central protagonist, an isolated, cynical pilot trying to make a living in a rebuilding galaxy.

    His mother (Amy Adams) is force-sensitive, and so is he. At the beginning of the film, she is killed, but in her dying moments, gives her son her lightsaber and tells him to go find his uncle, who he’s never met. The kid’s pretty smart, and manages to get off-world, finding his uncle in a cantina, a washed-up pilot and war hero haunted by ghosts of his past.

    -FivesWalker
    • The Mission: Gosling’s character is thrust into a sudden protective role when he is forced to look after his nephew, played by newcomer Flynn Gray.
    • The Mother’s Plea: Amy Adams plays Gray’s mother (Gosling’s sister). The inciting incident of the film features her sending her son away with his uncle to protect him from a mysterious connection to the Force that has drawn the wrong kind of attention.

    Shawn Levy previously teased that our heroes would be pursued across the galaxy by a dangerous duo of antagonists. We now know exactly what that pairing looks like.

    • The Enforcer: Mia Goth—who described filming the project as one of the best experiences of her career—is playing the lead female villain. Far from a Sith Lord, her character is described as a ruthless, highly calculating mercenary or bounty hunter specializing in capturing Force-sensitive individuals for an elite underground syndicate.
    • The Brains: Matt Smith is locked in as Goth’s partner. The leak describes Smith as a warlord who is “infamous across the galaxy.”

    Mia Goth will be playing a force-senstive, lightsaber using character. She will be working for a warlord/arms dealer (Matt Smith) who is infamous across the galaxy. And yes, she is on the hunt for Ryan Gosling’s nephew. There have been various rumors saying she is a Sith cultist. Those are false. I would describe her more [as] a mercenary (think of Baylan and Shin). While she has ties to Matt Smith’s character, she has her own agenda and plans. Plans that might involve training a certain someone.

    -FivesWalker

    The leak does nothing to cast doubt on the rumors that Star Wars: Starfighter is meant to serve as a bridge to a new trilogy and will feature a cameo by Daisy Ridley‘s Rey.

  • Rumor: Ryan Gosling’s ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ to Launch New Trilogy

    Rumor: Ryan Gosling’s ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ to Launch New Trilogy

    Production is underway on director Shawn Levy‘s Star Wars: Starfighter and while little has officially been revealed about the film outside of the main cast, there are plenty of reason for fans of the galaxy far, far away to get excited about the project, which is due in theaters in 2027.

    Ryan Gosling was confirmed as the film’s star during Star Wars Celebration Japan, making good on months of rumors that the A-lister was set to join the franchise. Matt Smith, who joined the cast in August as “the next great villain in the Star Wars universe,”and Mia Goth, who was cast in June, are set to antagonize Gosling‘s character, who is rumored to be protecting his Force-sensitive nephew, played by Flynn Gray.

    Billed as”an all-new standalone adventure,” Star Wars: Starfighter has been described as “an entirely original story set in a period of time never before explored in Star Wars.” Despite that description, there’s a growing belief online that Gosling‘s character will be tasked by Amy Adam‘s character with safely delivering his nephew to someone who can train him to use the Force and now a pair of new rumors have renewed hope that he’ll be delivered to a very familiar face.

    According to My Time To Shine Hello, despite Lucasfilm’s designating Star Wars: Starfighter as a stand alone project, the film will include a “big cameo” and is meant to launch a new trilogy.

    Given the rumors about the project, it’s easy to imagine that Gosling‘s mission in the film is to safely deliver his nephew to Rey Skywalker’s New Jedi Academy, which would allow Daisy Ridley to cameo, setting up a New Jedi Order trilogy.

    After being announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023, Lucasfilm’s Daisy Ridley-led New Jedi Order era film seemed to quickly gather momentum, at one point being the favorite to launch the studio’s plans to bring its galaxy far, far away back to theaters. Set to “tell the story of rebuilding the New Jedi Order and the powers that rise to tear it down,” the Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy-directed project was reportedly far enough along that Lucasfilm considered a 2025 release. Things changed quickly, however, as creative teams came and went and by November 2024, the film’s release was delayed indefinitely despite reports that the studio believes Ridley is its “most valuable cinematic asset.” By mid-2025, the film was reportedly pushed even further down the queue, with Starfighter and James Mangold‘s Jedi Prime film being proritized.

    Connecting the available dots, it begins to seem very reasonable that Starfighter might serve as a Rogue One-esque prequel to Ridley‘s trilogy, setting the stage for the New Jedi Order era. Of course, as Star Wars fans continue to grow increasingly frustrated with the franchise’s inability to bring ideas to fruition, nothing on that front will truly matter until production begins on Ridley’s project.