Why Oscar-Winner Mikey Madison Turned Down Ryan Gosling’s Star Wars Movie

In April 2025, / Reported film This director Shawn Levy, the Hollywood companion behind “Big Fat Liar”, “The Pink Panther”, “Real Steel” and “Deadpool & Wolverine”, will supervise a brand new film “Star Wars” entitled “Star Wars: Starfighter”. Little is known about the project at this stage, apart from it will showcase Ryan Gosling as an unknown character until it will take place after the events of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”. The big major part of the “Star Wars” projects carried out by Disney since its acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012 was flashbacks, prequelles or interquels, so “Starfighter” will be the first film “Star Wars” since 2019 to advance the chronology.

Mikey Madison, the winning star of an Oscar from “Anora” by Sean Baker, was also approached to play a role in “Starfighter”. Obviously, she was exploited to play the nasty central of the film. Madison was a rising star when she appeared in “Anora”, having already played in the 2022 version of “Scream” and in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” by Quentin Tarantino. His first major role was to play Max in the 52 episodes of the 2016 series “Better Things”. Madison, however, has always been careful and far from her roles, so she refused the role in “Starfighter”. His decision was mentioned in A recent report in the Hollywood ReporterAnd it seems that she does not agree with the salary that Disney offered her.

Nothing else is known on “Starfighter” at that time, and the trailer that Disney showed during the Star Wars Celebration Press event in 2025 (Covered on the company’s website) was just a animated title screen with a proposed release date: May 28, 2027. He will follow the release of “The Mandalorian & Grogu”, opened on May 22, 2026. Several other “Star Wars” films are at the development stage, but none of them yet has a release date.

It should be recognized that “Star Wars” no longer has the call he made about ten years ago. When “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” was released in 2015, he overturned the box office records, announcing that “Star Wars” was back, baby. It was the first original theatrical film of the franchise since “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” in 2008, and the public was ready for that. Disney announced that they intended to publish a major “Star Wars” film every year. The odd years would include “official” chapters in the current “Star Wars” saga, while the uniform years featured prequal, interquels and other autonomous projects. This was added to “Star Wars” shows on Disney + and in a new “Star Wars” area in Disneyland.

The overexposure of “Star Wars” only took approximately five years. The market was flooded and the fans were in a frenzy in the midst of suisaturation. It also did not help that several of the more high profile projects of the franchise are simply horrible (“solo”, “The Rise of Skywalker”) or at least controversial (“The Last Jedi”). Although many may assume that a promising actress like Mikey Madison could appreciate the reputation and the exhibition that membership in a film “Star Wars” could lend her, it is just as sure to suppose that it will be completely ignored or, worse, has the target of a sexist online hatred campaign (Ask Kelly Marie Tran on this subject).

Thus, while the Hollywood Reporter said that Madison refused “Starfighter” because of the money, it is likely that she, an informed business woman, weighed the salary against the sorrow and the headache who would most certainly have been accompanied with “Star Wars”. If Disney was not going to pay her enough to resist a wave of online abuse, then she was wise to move away. We will see if Levy and Gosling have a stomach for this.