Tom Cruise Filmed A Lightsaber Duel For 'Star Wars: Starfighter'
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Actors have gone behind the camera many times over the decades of film history, sometimes for projects they are also starring or playing a role in, but also for projects where their behind-the-scenes role is the only one they have. Bryce Dallas Howard’s work across the Disney+ Star Wars shows is a good example of this, as an actor largely switching to a role behind the camera despite their initial thespian training.
So while it should come as no surprise that an actor recently got behind the camera during filming for Shawn Levy’s Star Wars debut in Starfighter, it still does, because that actor was Tom Cruise.
Exactly how this was arranged, and why, is not clear. But Tom Cruise apparently flew out to the Starfighter shooting location near London in November (likely of 2025) in a helicopter, intending to watch the filming process, and soon eagerly jumped into the mix to film at least part of a lightsaber duel after an offer from Levy to let him get behind the camera.
The presence of lightsabers in Starfighter has ignited discussion among the Star Wars fanbase, with some concerned over the film’s content (whether it will sufficiently focus on starfighter to starfighter combat) as well as speculation about who is in the duel, as we only know that the duel was shot in a muddy pond. Some have theorized it is Amy Adams’ character fighting Mia Goth’s, others think maybe one of the fighters is a character planned to appear in Rey’s New Jedi Order film, and there are plenty more. There is also the question of the duel’s context, which may very well be a flashback or a vision, as opposed to a blood and flesh duel taking place at the same time as Starfighter’s plot.
We’ll have to wait over a year to find out just who was fighting who, though a teaser trailer releasing well before Starfighter approaches theatres might answer the question, or provoke even more questions.
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Source(s): New York Times
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