Star Wars has been through some difficult times as a franchise in recent years and it's in need of a huge hit to get the (space)ship back on the right track.
That big win may come in the form of Star Wars: Starfighter, a Ryan Gosling-led Lucasfilm feature that has just gone into production for the first time. The film is a standalone entry, not connected to the wider characters or storylines of the recent Skywalker Saga, with a release date already locked in on 28 May, 2027.
Many members of the cast have now been confirmed, with Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Simon Bird and Amy Adams all set to join Gosling in the spacefaring epic. It's not just the cast announcements that have fans excited though, as the crew also includes some notable names.
The most recently confirmed among that roster is cinematographer Claudio Miranda, whose work on F1 and Top Gun: Maverick drew particular praise from the movie-going public. In particular, his skill set as it relates to showing speed in films should come in very handy here, as ships in Star Wars leave even F1 cars and fighter jets in the dust.
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"Appropriate, considering the last Top Gun was mostly the Death Star Trench run," one comment read on Reddit.
"Well if you can’t get Joseph Kosinski to direct your movie, getting his cinematographer to shoot your movie is a good consolation prize," another added.
"I'm not asking for Andor in film form. All I want is a film with great action sequences and set pieces with likeable characters. The cast and announcements like this give me hope," a third stated, referencing comfortably the best of the recent Star Wars projects.
Whatever does happen with Starfighter between now and release day, it's certainly in a great spot right now and we can live in hope that the final product will be everything we want it to be.