Shawn Levy’s upcoming “Star Wars: Starfighter” has landed a major name behind the camera. The whole project’s street cred has been slightly elevated in the process.
Sources tell TheInSneider that Claudio Miranda, the Oscar-winning cinematographer of “Life of Pi,” has signed on as director of photography. This is positive news for a project that has drawn my skepticism since its inception.
Miranda, who also earned an Oscar nomination for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” has been one of Hollywood’s go-to DPs for large-scale, visually ambitious projects. His career has definitely been on the up.
His recent credits include “Top Gun: Maverick” and “F1,” both for director Joseph Kosinski, which suggests Levy is chasing a similar level of slick, high-octane visual spectacle for ‘Starfighter,’ which is set to open in theaters on May 28, 2027.
While James L. Brooks teased last year that "we'll soon be seeing" Jack Nicholson, 89, act again, and that he was "reading scripts," that idea has now been shut down by his close friend Michael Douglas, 82.