Star Wars: Starfighter

[GreyLord]

They've just announced the cast list for this film! In addition to Ryan Gosling, it will feature Flynn Gray, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, and Amy Adams.

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They are all younger than me, BUT...comparatively to actors today...

Why all the old people. Are old people the starfighter pilots now...what about the young generation of pilots like Luke and Biggs were when they started flying X-wings?

 

[pukunui]

They are all younger than me, BUT...comparatively to actors today...

Why all the old people. Are old people the starfighter pilots now...what about the young generation of pilots like Luke and Biggs were when they started flying X-wings?

Uh, the picture shows Ryan Gosling with a kid. Maybe he’s going to be teaching the kid how to be a Starfighter pilot?

 

[Deset Gled]

They are all younger than me, BUT...comparatively to actors today...

Why all the old people. Are old people the starfighter pilots now...what about the young generation of pilots like Luke and Biggs were when they started flying X-wings?

I'm no spring chicken either, but I have noticed that a lot of "action" movie stars seem surprisingly old to me lately.

Borderlands was the first one that really caught me off guard. Cate Blanchett - 56. Jamie Lee Curtis - 66. Gena Gershon - 63. In the game, their characters were mid 20s to mid 30s. That sent me off on a little tangent.

Mission Impossible - Tom Cruise - 63

John Wick - Keanu Reeves - 61

Nobody 2 - Bob Odenkirk - 62

Highest 2 Lowest - Denzel Washington - 70

F1 - Brad Pitt - 61

The Arcadian - Nick Cage - 61

Some movies I give a pass, because age makes sense. The last Indiana Jones leaned into the age bit. For Naked Gun, Liam Neeson is only a bit older than Leslie Nielsen was in the originals. But in general, it seems like there's a lot more older stars in heavy action roles these days. Meanwhile, I turned my head left the wrong way last week, and had to be careful looking left the entire rest of the day so I didn't hurt it. And I slept on my leg weird last night and had a light limp for a couple hours.

You ever watch one of the heroes above get punched in the gut and think "I bet they just peed a little."?

 

[Kaodi]

Stallone was 64 when The Expendables came out, and I think Jackie Chan was 58 when "he took a step back" from doing quite as much. I think part of it is that the actors who make these films are just the best at conveying a particular feeling.

 

[MarkB]

Uh, the picture shows Ryan Gosling with a kid. Maybe he’s going to be teaching the kid how to be a Starfighter pilot?

Top Wing: Maverick.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Uh, the picture shows Ryan Gosling with a kid. Maybe he’s going to be teaching the kid how to be a Starfighter pilot?

There have been some plot leaks around that suggest that the Bad Guys(TM) want to kidnap the kid because Plot, and Gosling is his protector/father figure.

Personally, I think that sounds weak, and I don't feel optomistic about this movie.

 

[Deset Gled]

There have been some plot leaks around that suggest that the Bad Guys(TM) want to kidnap the kid because Plot, and Gosling is his protector/father figure.

Personally, I think that sounds weak, and I don't feel optomistic about this movie.

As a general plot that sounds fine. But the problem I have is that it sounds too Mandalorian.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

As a general plot that sounds fine. But the problem I have is that it sounds too Mandalorian.

Combined with the word “Starfighter” it sounds disturbingly like Episode 1.

I think Disney are far to cautious when it comes to Star Wars, and are afraid to do anything but recycle the same old plots.

The exception was Andor, and that clearly showed that the way to do Star Wars going forward is to branch out into other genres.

 

[pukunui]

Another photo from the set has surfaced:

 

[Micah Sweet]

The state of the galaxy post episode IX hasn’t been touched yet, but it seemingly left both the First Order and the New Republic headless. And there is also the loose coalition of independent systems established in the Mandalorian TV show.

Which takes places decades prior to this story, do many things could have changed.