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Title: New 'Star Wars' Movie Announced Set 5 Years After 'Rise of Skywalker'

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A new Star Wars movie - starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Shawn Levy -
will be released in 2027, the two announced Friday at the "Star Wars
Celebration" (a fan event in Japan). CNN reports: Set to begin production
this fall, the movie will be set approximately five years after "Star Wars:
Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker," released in 2019, but will sit outside
the Skywalker story as a standalone film. "The film... is an entirely new
adventure featuring all-new characters set in a period of time that has not
been explored on screen," said a statement from Lucasfilm, the owner of the
"Star Wars" franchise... "The script is just so good, the story, it has so
much adventure, so much heart and original character. It's an opportunity to
shine the light into a side of the universe that we may not have seen,"
Gosling said. Levy, the director of "Deadpool & Wolverine," told the
crowd the film would have all the "fun of 'Star Wars'" but it would be done
"in ways that are new and original...." The next movie in the franchise, "The
Mandalorian & Grogu," a spin-off of "The Mandalorian" series, directed by
Jon Favreau, will hit cinemas in May 2026. USA Today notes that more new Star
Wars movies have also been announced: Daisy Ridley is set to star in a film
that will see her character, Rey, building a new Jedi Order after the events
of "The Rise of Skywalker." [This is sometimes referred to as "Star Wars
Episode X: New Jedi Order."] "Logan" filmmaker James Mangold has also been
tapped to direct a movie about the dawn of the Jedi, and [Dave] Filoni is
directing one said to "close out the interconnected stories" told in the live-
action Disney+ shows like "The Mandalorian."

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