We Would’ve Loved a ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ Trailer Today

Star Wars fans were spoiled rotten on Thursday with an avalanche of exciting news. New posters, new toys, a new documentary, live events, you name it, all to celebrate the franchise’s 50th anniversary in 2027. But there’s something else Star Wars happening in 2027 too, and a little footage from it would’ve put the entire day over the top: Star Wars: Starfighter. Opening on May 28, 2027, Starfighter will be the first Star Wars movie to take place after the events of The Rise of Skywalker. Ryan Gosling stars as Kade Auberon, Shawn Levy directs, and it’s coming out in 70mm IMAX. Lucasfilm has even screened footage from the film already, exclusively to fans at D23 in August. Read about that here. So wouldn’t it have been amazing and fitting to release that today as well? Well, clearly, if it had, it would have overshadowed everything else, and Lucasfilm wouldn’t want that. A Star Wars trailer release is an event unto itself and, as such, it will almost certainly arrive with its own pomp and circumstance in its own time. When might that time be? Well, if you look at other movie trailer releases, Disney just released one for its March 5, 2027, film, Pixar’s Gatto. MGM also released a trailer for its March 5 release, The Thomas Crown Affair. Of the major wide releases coming out after March 5, only one has a trailer so far: Universal’s The Exorcist: Martyrs on March 12. There’s nothing yet from April 2027 (such as The Legend of Zelda or Spaceballs: The New One) and, of course, nothing from May 2027 or beyond. Yet. It doesn’t take a genius to look at the next few weeks and take a stab at when we will get that first trailer for Star Wars: Starfighter. Disney has a kind of big movie coming out on December 18 that seems to share a lot of the same audience. A film that’s expected to make a lot of money and would really get a lot of eyeballs on this highly anticipated future release. That movie, of course, is Avengers: Doomsday, and we’re all but certain Lucasfilm will drop a Starfighter teaser around then. But today would have been pretty incredible too. Want more io9 news? Check out the best movies and TV shows to stream this month and all the upcoming sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books that should be on your radar.