Though we haven’t been lacking in live-action Star Wars content thanks to the many Disney+ subscription-exclusive TV shows that have been released, we haven’t gotten a new Star Wars movie since The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. Fortunately that dry spell will finally come to an end when The Mandalorian & Grogu premieres on the 2026 movies schedule this summer. After that, the Ryan Gosling-led and Shawn Levy-directed Starfighter will follow in 2027. Your Friends & Neighbors’ Jonathan Tropper wrote the upcoming Star Wars movie’s script, and his latest comments about it have seemingly shut down a popular rumor that was circling the feature.
For context, it was rumored last October that Starfighter, which is set five years after The Rise of Skywalker, will heavily feature Jedi. It was a strange bit of news considering that from what little we know about Starfighter, it’s expected to focus on pilots and non-Force sensitive characters in this corner of a galaxy far, far away. Well, judging by what Tropper said to ScreenRant about how the Starfighter team wasn’t “bound by any structures of the past movies,” it doesn’t sound like we should give any credence to this rumor:
