Ryan Gosling in Talks for Upcoming “Star Wars” Role

We don’t *always* cover casting rumors, but, this is one we’re semi interested in? According to the usual suspects, it sounds like Ryan Gosling may be in some form of discussions to join a “Star Wars” project. Specifically, a film from Shawn Levy, who helmed Marvel Studios’ “Deadpool & Wolverine.”

What’s interesting here is that Gosling wrapped on a pretty big sci-fi film recently. Based on Andy Weir‘s (“The Martian”) third novel, “Project Hail Mary” completed filming in November of 2024. Gosling is playing main character Ryland Grace, a school-teacher-turned-astronaut who wakes up from a coma afflicted with amnesia. We don’t want to get into too many details about the plot, but, we’re REALLY excited about it.

But having Gosling head to the galaxy far, far away directly after “Project Hail Mary” (which is due out in March of 2026) is like if Matt Damon joined a “Star Trek” project after Ridley Scott‘s “The Martian.” Not that this is a bad thing, just…weird.

Obviously Gosling was part of the recording-breaking box office smash “Barbie,” and has a string of other notable projects like Denis Villenueve‘s “Blade Runner: 2049” and Shane Black‘s “The Nice Guys.” (Seriously, if you haven’t seen “The Nice Guys,” do yourself a favor and watch it. Maybe we’ll still get a sequel someday.)

But back to “Star Wars.” This project from Levy is theoretically the same film he’s been in development on since 2022.  His “This Is Where I Leave You” and “The Adam Project” collaborator Jonathan Tropper reportedly penned the most recent script. That’s…literally all we know about the film so far.

We will let you know what we hear about this and other news.