Star Wars fans were spoiled rotten on Thursday with an avalanche of exciting news. New posters, new toys, a new documentary, live events, you name it, all to celebrate the franchise’s 50th anniversary in 2027. But there’s something else Star Wars happening in 2027 too, and a little footage from it would’ve put the entire day over the top: Star Wars: Starfighter.
Opening on May 28, 2027, Starfighter will be the first Star Wars movie to take place after the events of The Rise of Skywalker. Ryan Gosling stars as Kade Auberon, Shawn Levy directs, and it’s coming out in 70mm IMAX. Lucasfilm has even screened footage from the film already, exclusively to fans at D23 in August. Read about that here.
So wouldn’t it have been amazing and fitting to release that today as well? Well, clearly, if it had, it would have overshadowed everything else, and Lucasfilm wouldn’t want that. A Star Wars trailer release is an event unto itself and, as such, it will almost certainly arrive with its own pomp and circumstance in its own time.
When might that time be? Well, if you look at other movie trailer releases, Disney just released one for its March 5, 2027, film, Pixar’s Gatto. MGM also released a trailer for its March 5 release, The Thomas Crown Affair.…
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