‘Physician Who’ Legend Matt Smith Is Becoming a member of the Villains of ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’

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 coming into the galaxy far, far-off with a task within the Ryan Gosling-starring Star Wars: Starfighter, due in 2027 from director Shawn Levy.

Deadline acquired the inside track. In response to 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 “numerous actors for this key position,” and Smith was chosen as “the following nice villain within the Star Wars universe.”

Star Wars followers will recall that Mia Goth, who joined the cast in June, can also be rumored to be enjoying a villain. Not a lot is understood concerning 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 implies extra casting information might be imminent, forward of a launch date of Might 28, 2027.

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