Scream Queen Mia Goth Cast in 'Star Wars' Sequel
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You may know her best as a scream queen from movies like "X" and "Pearl", but now Mia Goth is graduating to a galaxy far, far away. Variety reports that the "MaXXXine" star has signed on to join Ryan Gosling in the upcoming "Star Wars: Starfighter".
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No details yet have been released about Goth's role in the film, though presumably it's the same part that Oscar winner Mikey Madison reportedly turned down in April.
Reports emerged about the "Anora" star saying no to "Starfighter" just before the kick-off of Star Wars Celebration.
Mia Goth attends the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 02, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California.
Mia Goth attends the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 02, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California.
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Very little overall is known about "Star Wars: Starfighter". Shawn Levy of "Deadpool & Wolverine" fame is directing from a script by Jonathan Tropper, who previously worked with Levy on "The Adam Project" and "This Is Where I Leave You".
"Starfighter" is set roughly five years after the events of "Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker" and is a standalone film disconnected from the larger Skywalker Saga.
"Star Wars: Starfighter" is scheduled to hit theaters May 28, 2027. Originally, this would've placed its bowing pretty close to another big Disney film, "Avengers: Secret Wars", but the latter event film has since been delayed to December 17, 2027.
"Starfighter" is part of Disney's attempt to once more capitalize on "Star Wars" at the box office. The franchise hasn't released a feature since 2019 and numerous projects have been reported to have stalled along the way.
Next for Star Wars in theaters is "The Mandalorian & Grogu", which is set for release May 22, 2026. The film will continue the adventures of the heroes introduced in Disney+'s "The Mandalorian".
Among other projects is Daisy Ridley's return as Rey in a film set 15 years after "The Rise of Skywalker", and James Mangold's ambitious "Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi".
Goth won't be sitting on her hands waiting for "Star Wars" to come around, of course. Fans can next see her this November in Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein". Goth plays Elizabeth in the Netflix original, the fiancée of Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac).
Goth is also starring in Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" in an as-of-yet undisclosed role. She is rumored to be playing the powerful witch Circe, but this has not been confirmed.
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