Aaron Pierre Joins Ryan Gosling, Amy Adams in 'Star Wars: Starfighter'

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA - FEBRUARY 17: Aaron Pierre arrives at the 7th Annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Honors 2025 held at the SLS Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Beverly Hills on February 17, 2025 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Aaron Pierre joins Ryan Gosling and Amy Adams in ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’, set five years after The Rise of Skywalker.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 31: Aaron Pierre poses before taking part in a SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversation for "Genius: MLK/X" at SAG-AFTRA Foundation Robin Williams Center on January 31, 2024 in New York City. Michael LoccisanoAaron Pierre has officially joined Star Wars: Starfighter, the new film in development at Lucasfilm. Pierre, who earned recognition for The Underground Railroad and M. Night Shyamalan’s Old, will appear in the franchise for the first time.

The project is directed by Shawn Levy from a script by Jonathan Tropper. Canadian actor Ryan GoslingRyan Gosling leads the ensemble, which also features Amy Adams, Matt Smith, British actress Mia Goth.Mia Goth, Flynn Gray, Simon Bird, London, UNITED KINGDOM - Celebrity Red Carpet arrivals at The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2019 at the Savoy Hotel in London.  BACKGRID UK 7 JULY 2019 Pictured: Jamael WestmanJamael Westman and Daniel Ings 'The Brutalist' film Special Screening, London, UK - 15 Jan 2025Daniel Ings. Production began this summer in the United Kingdom, with Lucasfilm releasing a first-look photo that showed Gosling and Gray beside a landspeeder-style vehicle.

Set five years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker, the film is positioned as the next story on the Star Wars timeline. Star Wars: Starfighter is scheduled to open in theaters on May 28, 2027.