‘Physician Who’ Legend Matt Smith Is B...

These long-forgotten rumors that Matt Smith would pop up in Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker now really feel extra like a premonition. The Physician Who and Home of the Dragon star is getting into the galaxy far, distant with a task within the Ryan Gosling-starring Star Wars: Starfighter, due in 2027 from director Shawn Levy.

Deadline obtained the news. In keeping with the commerce, there are not any character particulars but, however “sources say he’ll play one of many villain roles.” It additionally relates that director Levy met with “a variety of actors for this key function,” and Smith was chosen as “the subsequent nice villain within the Star Wars universe.”

Star Wars followers will recall that Mia Goth, who joined the cast in June, can be rumored to be taking part in a villain. Not a lot is understood in regards to the plot of the Jonathan Tropper-scripted movie, past that it’s a standalone that takes place 5 years after the occasions of The Rise of Skywalker, and it options new characters on a new adventure.

Starfighter begins filming this fall, which suggests extra casting information might be imminent, forward of a launch date of Could 28, 2027.

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