Speaking to Playlist, Star Wars: Starfighter writer Jonathan Tropper described the upcoming film as fresh and new, “There are no barriers to entry. You don’t have to have seen other ‘Star Wars’ movies to step into this one”.
Tropper remained understandably guarded about the plot, but described the movie as an attempt to recover the open-ended adventure of seeing the original “Star Wars” before decades of mythology accumulated around it.
“The goal from the beginning, when Shawn and I first started talking about it, was to create the feeling in theaters that we had as kids seeing ‘Star Wars’ back in 1977,” he said. “That sense of a swashbuckling adventure into new worlds. For us, that was really important. There are no barriers to entry. You don’t have to have seen other ‘Star Wars’ movies to step into this one.”
Rather than asking audiences to arrive with a working knowledge of several timelines, animated series, and the current political structure of the New Republic, Tropper and Levy wanted to build something around “wish fulfillment and adventure.”
“I think Shawn has done an incredible job,” Tropper added. “I think Gosling’s incredible. It’s going to be a really long wait until this comes out because I’m dying for people to see it.”
Read the interview in full here. Star Wars: Starfighter lands on May 28th, 2027.
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