Deadpool and Wolverine’s Shawn Levy’s Star Wars movie might be about to add one of the world’s last, true movie stars.
Yes, it seems that Barbie and Blade Runner 2049 star Ryan Gosling is a big Star Wars fan and is expressing interest in heading to that galaxy far, far away and, not only that, but Gosling’s interest in Levy’s Star Wars project means that the project is getting expedited by Levy and Disney and, if the deal is done, the movie could go in front of cameras this year!
Levy has been developing the movie for a while now and it seems that Gosling’s negotiations started fairly late on but his star power – especially after playing Ken in Barbie – means they want to get the deal done and the project rolling.
If the movie does go into production this year, it means that it will likely be the next big-screen Star Wars movie to be released after Jon Favreau’s Mandalorian and Grogu movie due in 2026.
There are no details known about Levy’s movie yet but it’s believed to be a standalone Star Wars movie, disconnected from the Skywalker saga and any other movies, the timeline and where it takes place in the Star Wars galaxy is also unknown.
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Gosling, if he joins, is one of a select few already established stars to join the Star Wars universe with Liam Neeson in 1999’s Episode I: The Phantom Menace being the only other big Hollywood name to take the jump to hyperspace.
I’m a big, big fan of Gosling and having him play a Han solo-esque character would be very welcome… Dash Rendar perhaps? Or Talon Karrde, perhaps?
Anyways, I’ll be watching this with great interest.
Thoughts? I know you have them…
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Source: THR
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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