First Trailer for Star Wars: Starfighter Shown at D23 — Here's What We Saw

Lucasfilm has shown disconnected the debut trailer for Star Wars: Starfighter astatine the Disney instrumentality event, D23.

The little archetypal look astatine the upcoming movie shows Ryan Gosling’s aviator character, present confirmed to beryllium called Kade Auberon, observe a kid playing with his decommissioned starfighter wrong a garage. There's a crushed it was decommissioned, Kade says. We past spot Kade alert crossed a fig of otherworldly landscapes, and successful classical Star Wars fashion, droids sprout astatine the vessel arsenic Kade’s droid helps him escape.

On signifier astatine D23, manager Shawn Levy handed Gosling a caller overgarment to wear. On the backmost is the awesome of his character, Kade Auberon, which you tin spot below.

Star Wars: Starfighter histrion Ryan Gosling wearing a overgarment with Kade Auberon's logo connected the back. Image credit: IGN.

Starfighter is simply a standalone Star Wars movie that is neither a prequel nor a sequel, manager Shawn Levy has insisted. "It’s a caller adventure," helium said of the post-Rise of Skywalker movie astatine Star Wars Celebration 2025. "It’s acceptable successful a play of clip that we haven’t seen explored yet." As portion of that, it volition not diagnostic immoderate "legacy characters," truthful don't expect to spot Rey Skywalker popular up.

Ryan Gosling stars alongside Amy Adams, Aaron Pierre, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, and Flynn Gray. Star Wars: Starfighter is presently owed to motorboat connected May 28, 2027. Catch up connected everything announced astatine D23 2026 close here.

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