Lucasfilm may have cut a major British actor from Star Wars: Starfighter after he was removed from its official cast listing. The next Star Wars movie is going in the opposite direction to The Mandalorian & Grogu, tossing aside connections to the galaxy far, far away in favor of a new, standalone story, helmed by Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy. Production took place in the U.K. from August 2025 to May 2026, with Barbie icon Ryan Gosling leading the charge.One year after Lucasfilm posted Star Wars: Starfighter's official cast list in August 2025 to mark the start of production, the studio removed any mention of The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird from the article. Using the Wayback Machine (a tool for viewing archived web pages over time), it appears Bird's name was only removed from Starfighter's cast announcement at some point between August 21 and September 2. That is several months after production wrapped in the U.K. in May, and just weeks after Starfighter unveiled its first official trailer at Disney's D23 Expo on August 14. Read full article on The Direct.