Starfighter Sets Mia Goth In Lead Villain Role

Since making her major substantial screen breakthrough in Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria back in 2018, Mia Goth has marked herself out as one of the most otherworldly talents in Hollywood today, putting in singular performances in everything from High Life to Emma to Infinity Pool to Ti West’s X trilogy. Now, per THR‘s reporting, it looks like Goth is set to go from the otherworldly to the quite-literally-out-of-this-worldly with her first blockbuster booking. The movie? Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter. The role? Lead villain.

Yes, despite recent whisperings that Mikey Madison had been offered the villainous lead opposite star Ryan Gosling in Levy’s up-to-date Star War, it is Goth — next to be seen in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein this November — who has found herself with a ticket to that galaxy far, far away. And while plot details for Levy’s movie, scripted by The Adam Project‘s Jonathan Tropper, are currently being kept hush-hush, THR‘s sources do offer up some eyebrow-raising indication as to the broad strokes of the story. Reportedly, Gosling plays a character who’s trying to protect his adolescent nephew from some space ne’er-do-wells in the movie, while Goth is heading up said ne’er-do-wells’ group as they seek him out. Beyond that though, all we really know otherwise is that Starfighter is set five years after The Rise Of Skywalker, and is being billed as its own standalone adventure, unmoored from the Skywalker Saga.

Shooting on Star Wars: Starfighter is due to get underway in England before the year is through, with the movie currently set to lightspeed skip into cinemas on 28 May, 2027. Before then, Star Wars fans can look forward to the franchise’s substantial screen comeback arriving in the form of Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian & Grogu on 22 May, 2026. A Star Wars movie less than a year out and another shooting in just a few months’ time? This is the way!