The future of Star Wars the films are always in a uncertain level of movementbut one of the most mysterious projects among the a lot The mysterious projects that Lucasfilm is currently preparing may well have taken a big step forward.
The Hollywood Reporter reports – and io9 confirmed it – that Deadpool and Wolverine the mystery of director Shawn Levy Star Wars the film is currently in negotiations with Ryan Gosling for a major lead role. Little is known about Levy’s project, which was revealed for the first time in 2022-one of the few recently announced Star Wars theatrical projects that have managed to get through the last few years of scrapping and reworking largely unscathed so far.
The film – which Levy last reported on in 2023, saying plans for the script had been thwarted by then-ongoing strikes in Hollywood – was given no specific framework within the framework of the film. Star Wars chronologically, but the Hollywood Reporter further added that the film is indeed a standalone entity and unrelated to the larger narrative of the main “Skywalker Saga” film series, which would fit in with what we’ve heard about plans for Lucasfilm’s most recent films. , revolving around a “new saga” of three films currently in project from producer and writer Simon Kinberg.
THR further adds that if Gosling signed on to appear in the film, Lucasfilm’s planned roster following the release of the first Star Wars theatrical project since 2019, next year’s The Mandalorian and Grogucould change once again. Levy had already planned to do other projects before turning his attention to the galaxy far, far away, including an upcoming boy band film at Paramount that would reunite him with his Deadpool and Wolverine colleagues Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. However, if negotiations with Gosling go well, the Star Wars project will become Levy’s next film – and the next Star Wars film in Lucasfilm’s extensive slate to actually go into production, with production potentially beginning this fall.
We’ll bring you more about Levy’s Star Wars film and other future developments from Lucasfilm, as we learn them.
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