Shawn Levy's Star Wars Movie Hopefully 'On the Way Sooner Than You Think,' According To Writer

Remember Shawn Levy’s upcoming Star Wars movie? Don’t worry, the Deadpool & Wolverine manager is inactive making the movie — and we’ve adjacent got a small update astir it to reassure us, nonstop from the project’s writer, Jonathan Tropper.

"I americium [excited] too," the scribe told Screen Rant astir the aboriginal film. "I anticipation it's connected the mode sooner than you think."

The movie is, astatine this point, mostly a implicit mystery. One of the lone things we truly cognize astir it truthful acold is that it is acceptable aft The Rise of Skywalker. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy antecedently explained the film’s spot successful the timeline. "That’s besides successful the future,” she said of Levy’s movie successful an interrogation with Deadline successful February. “It’s each post-[the first] nine. Shawn’s is simply a standalone Star Wars communicative that'll instrumentality spot post-nine, possibly 5 oregon six years out.” That would marque this movie the archetypal 1 to research the post-Rise of Skywalker era.

In the aforesaid chat, Kennedy besides confirmed that the movie would get aft 2026’s The Mandalorian and Grogu. "I'm producing the Mandalorian movie close now, and I'm besides producing Shawn Levy's movie, which is aft that,” she explained. Finally, the past large item we cognize astir Levy’s task is that Ryan Gosling is reportedly acceptable to prima successful the film.

Hopefully Tropper’s words are a bully omen that indicates things are yet connected way for Levy’s film. After all, it’s not going to travel until at least the past 4th of 2026, if not 2027 — truthful ultimately, we person a batch of waiting to do.

Disney hasn’t released a Star Wars movie since the universally panned Star Wars: Episode 9 - The Rise of Skywalker successful 2019, but it has cancelled respective films successful that time, specified arsenic 1 from Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige and different trilogy from Game of Thrones showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff. In November, a Star Wars movie that had antecedently staked retired a precocious 2026 merchandise day was pulled from Disney's calendar.

At 2023's Star Wars Celebration, Lucasfilm announced 3 caller Star Wars diagnostic films: a Dave Filoni-directed New Republic movie acceptable successful his Mando-verse, a Dawn of the Jedi movie led by James Mangold, and a New Jedi Order diagnostic directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy that's acceptable to person Daisy Ridley reprise her relation arsenic Rey aft the events of The Rise of Skywalker.

That Obaid-Chinoy task has gone done respective changes, with screenwriter Steven Knight precocious departing aft taking implicit for Damon Lindelof and Justin Britt-Gibson. Still, Rey arsenic a quality is inactive seemingly a large precedence for Disney moving forward, with a caller THR study saying that she's acceptable to look successful respective upcoming Star Wars films.

And, judge it oregon not, that's not adjacent all Disney has connected the Star Wars docket moving forward. It was revealed precocious past twelvemonth that X-Men shaper Simon Kinberg is acceptable to constitute a caller trilogy that isn't, contrary to archetypal reports, a continuation of the Skywalker Saga.

The adjacent Star Wars spot to deed your surface volition beryllium Season 2 of Andor, which is acceptable to premiere connected Disney+ connected April 22 with a jam-packed triple premiere episode.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.