Star Wars fans will recall that Mia Goth, who joined the cast in June, is also rumored to be playing a villain. Not much is known about the plot of the Jonathan Tropper-scripted film, beyond that it’s a standalone that takes place five years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker, and it features new characters on a new adventure.

Actor Matt Smith, best known as the heroic Doctor on BBC's Doctor Who, is about to join another venerable sci-fi franchise as Deadline reports he'll take the role of the unnamed villain in Deadpool & Wolverine director Sean Levy's upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter film,

Matt Smith, known for Doctor Who and House of the Dragon, joins Ryan Gosling and Mia Goth as the villain in Shawn Levy's Star Wars: Starfighter movie.