Shawn Levy’s untitled Star Wars film, which is in the works at Lucasfilm, got a well-needed update from its writer, Jonathan Tropper.

The project was first announced in 2022, with sparse updates until the end of this February, when Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy confirmed that this film would take place five years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker. Tropper, while promoting his project Your Friends & Neighbors, met with Collider’s Christina Radish, who asked how working on the upcoming feature was faring. Tropper admitted that it “blows his mind every day to be working on a Star Wars movie,” going further to say that working on a franchise like this was something he dreamed about his “whole life.” As for the status of the feature, Tropper states that they are “still working on it. For various reasons, I can’t say anything about it. But we’re working on it.”

This will be Levy and Tropper’s third time collaborating, with Levy directing the feature adaptation of Tropper’s novel, This Is Where I Leave You, and Tropper returning to write the screenplay for said film. They reunited a second time in 2022 when Tropper wrote the screenplay for Levy’s The Adam Project. Levy has become one of the biggest directorial names in Hollywood right now, with big-budget successes like 2021’s Free Guy and 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine. He is also a secondary director and executive producer for Netflix’s Stranger Things.

As for the cast, Ryan Gosling is the only reported name that is attached to the ensemble, but if what Tropper said is true, we might have to only wait sooner rather than later for new updates.