We’re still 313 days away from the release of Star Wars: Starfighter, so it’s perhaps a bit early to be expecting spoilers and hints at the storyline of the film (though – as always – there are plenty of rumours being peddled around the spoiler sites right now), and speaking with The Playlist Starfighter writer Jonathan Tropper briefly discussed the project, and his excitement for the world to see it.
One of Tropper’s other projects takes place in a galaxy far, far away. He wrote “Star Wars: Starfighter,” the upcoming Shawn Levy-directed film starring Ryan Gosling, and has now seen enough of the finished work to make the wait until its release considerably more painful for himself.
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.”
