Tom Cruise Helped Shoot a Lightsaber Duel for ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’

Positive, there’s a Star Wars film popping out in 5 months’ time that we barely know anything about, however subsequent yr, there may be one other Star Wars film popping out that we barely know something about, too: Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter. We all know the forged, together with Ryan Gosling’s lead hero. We all know there’s speeders. We all know there’s a giant water sequence, and a few classically Star Wars-ian tight pants. We presume to know that there’s going to be spaceships in it (shocker). However now we all know one further element that makes Starfighter all of a sudden extra attention-grabbing.

As a part of a quick profile of Levy revealed by the New York Times immediately, the paper revealed a delightfully odd reality from the set of the brand new movie: Tom Cruise paid a go to and helped shoot a scene.

“Final week Steven Spielberg was right here. And now Tom Cruise is wielding a digital camera, ruining his very good footwear,” Levy mentioned, saying that Cruise was initially there simply to look at, however after Levy jokingly provided the prospect for Cruise to get caught in, he did. “Now whenever you see the film, you’ll know that a part of it was shot by Tom. I imply, how cool is that?”

That’s a enjoyable factoid as-is, letting Tom Cruise be a part of an elite tier of people that’ve really managed to assist shoot a Star Wars film since The Rise of Skywalker was launched in 2019—greater than a number of the administrators Lucasfilm has publicly employed to truly direct Star Wars motion pictures within the final 7 years, even. However what’s attention-grabbing is the scene the Occasions says Cruise helped shoot. The paper describes what Levy and Crusie had been filming as “a lightsaber duel within the water.”

On the one hand, a lightsaber in a Star Wars film—a possible place for it to be, and a few might groan {that a} movie that appeared prefer it is perhaps faraway from Star Wars‘ typical focuses now won’t be so eliminated. However on the opposite, provided that one of many few issues we do know in regards to the movie is that Starfighter is ready 5 years after the occasions of Rise, the existence of a lightsaber duel (and extra particularly, sufficient folks with them to have such a duel within the movie) raises some very attention-grabbing questions in regards to the film and its focus.

In fact, a type of questions is who the hell is combating within the duel. Might it’s Gosling’s character? Maybe Flynn Grey’s mysterious younger little one? Another person? Might it’s a flashback to the previous, slightly than one thing within the current? And who’re they up in opposition to—Mia Goth or Matt Smith’s mysterious villains?

Tom Cruise is aware of, presumably, however the remainder of us mortals should wait till nearer to Starfighter‘s Might 28, 2027 launch date to be taught extra.

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