Star Wars: Starfighter Follows ‘Marginalized Outsiders' From the ‘Wrong Side of the Galaxy’

Director Shawn Levy has revealed that Star Wars: Starfighter follows characters “from the incorrect broadside of the galaxy” successful a communicative that drew inspiration from Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film, The Outsiders.

Coppola’s The Outsiders adapted S.E. Hinton’s classical young big caller astir clashing teens successful 1960s Oklahoma. Hinton’s communicative depicts the progressively convulsive and tragic antagonism betwixt the moving people “Greasers” and the upper-middle-class "Socs".

Speaking with Fandango implicit the play astatine D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, Levy said helium and prima Ryan Gosling sparked to that thought that the protagonists of Starfighter could, similar the Greasers, travel from “the incorrect broadside of the tracks.”

“They’re not the privileged ones. They’re from the incorrect broadside of the tracks,” Levy said. “Our characters successful Starfighter are from the incorrect broadside of the galaxy. And it’s astir these benignant of marginalized outsiders who find each different and person a changeable astatine discovering heroism done their connections.”

Starfighter follows Gosling’s aviator Kade Auberon who teams up with a kid (newcomer Flynn Gray) connected an escapade that, though lone acceptable astir 5 years aft the events of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, volition not diagnostic immoderate "legacy characters" nor immoderate “remixes” of John Williams’ iconic themes successful its score.

Levy told Fandango “there was conscionable thing benignant of blue-collar, moving class, grounded and textured and existent to The Outsiders that we tried to bring to Star Wars and to Starfighter. Yes, it’s acceptable successful space. It’s precocious tech. There’s tons of ocular effects, but it’s precise overmuch grounded successful characters and grounded successful the worldly of these characters doing the champion they tin successful a chaotic postulation that hasn’t yet been explored.”

The Outsiders featured a murderer’s enactment of then-upcoming talent, including Tom Cruise, who visited the acceptable of Starfighter wherever helium helped Levy and Gosling movie a lightsaber duel.

In summation to Levy and Gray, Starfighter’s formed besides includes Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, and Amy Adams.

Star Wars: Starfighter opens successful theaters connected May 28, 2027.