Who is Matt Smith playing in Star Wars? Here’s one big clue

If you wish to set off a Star Wars fan, all you have to do is say three phrases: “Somehow, Palpatine returned.” Whereas loads of individuals had been excited to the resurrection of Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) in Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, we are able to just about all agree that the best way Lucasfilm determined to carry him again was lazy and nonsensical to the purpose of being insulting. Nonetheless, as one latest piece of Star Wars information reminds us, ol’ Palp’s return to the franchise was virtually radically completely different.

Deadline just lately reported that Matt Smith will be part of the forged of Star Wars: Starfighter, an upcoming film from director Shawn Levy and set to star Ryan Gosling. Smith will apparently play the movie’s villain. We all know subsequent to nothing about Starfighter with a number of small exceptions: It takes place roughly 5 years after The Rise of Skywalker, Mia Goth (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) can also be within the film, and it was written by Jonathan Tropper (Banshee, Warrior, Your Pals and Neighbors).

What’s attention-grabbing about all this, nonetheless, is that Matt Smith was technically already imagined to be in Star Wars. Back in 2018, Variety reported that Smith had been forged in Rise of Skywalker. Subsequent rumors advised he’d be enjoying a younger clone of Emperor Palpatine, and in a single interview, Smith went as far as to say his function within the movie was imagined to be “transformative,” however would not touch upon any Palpatine hypothesis on the time.

After all, as everyone knows, Smith wasn’t in Rise of the Skywalker in any respect. As a substitute, authentic Palpatine actor Ian MacDiarmid returned, doing his greatest to ham up an in any other case dry and boring film. It is unclear what occurred to Matt Smith’s reported function in that movie, and we could by no means know for certain, however one factor is sort of sure: He will not be enjoying Palpatine in Star Wars: Starfighter.