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Ryan Gosling is in talks to star in the new Star Wars movie developed by Deadpool & Wolverine's Shawn Levy
The Barbie and Fall Guy star is about to take his Kenergy to a new galaxy with a potential Star Wars role
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According to the Hollywood Reporter, Ryan Gosling is looking to add to his portfolio of franchises by entering talks to star in Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy’s in-development Star Wars feature.
Details on the project have been impressively difficult to uncover, although the feature has been reportedly in development for the past three years with Levy and co-writer Jonathan Tropper — the two wrote Netflix’s The Adam Project together — collaborating on the screenplay. In addition to co-writing and directing, Levy will produce the feature alongside Kathleen Kennedy and Lucasfilm.
The project is believed to be a standalone feature unconnected with the wider Skywalker Saga, or even the currently in-development trilogy of new features announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023. For those playing along at home, this is also entirely separate from the Simon Kinberg-created movie trilogy that was revealed to be in the works back in November last year.
THR suggests that, should Gosling sign onto the project, Levy’s feature might leapfrog other projects on Lucasfilm’s to-do list, and become the next Star Wars project to go into production with shooting beginning arguably as early as fall 2025. (The Mandalorian and Grogu, which is on tap for a May 2026 release, finished principal photography back in December 2024.)
This won’t be the first time that Gosling steps into a fan-favorite franchise; back in 2017, he was the protagonist in Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 alongside Star Wars icon Harrison Ford, and let’s not forget that he got his start way back when in The Mickey Mouse Club, the most fan-favorite franchise of them all.
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