Pixar unveiled the first concept art and story details for “Coco 2” at Disney’s D23 fan event Friday night, confirming a November 2029 release date and revealing that the film’s young hero, Miguel, will return as a teenager nearly 12 years after the original movie’s 2017 debut.

The new artwork shown at the event depicted an older Miguel walking alongside his dog, Dante, sporting a new haircut but still carrying his signature guitar. Actor Benjamin Bratt took the stage to confirm he will reprise his role as Ernesto de la Cruz, the celebrated musician whose fraudulent legacy Miguel exposed at the end of the first film. Bratt offered a playful summary of his character’s motivations in the sequel. “Miguel is a little menace who ruined a career and destroyed a legacy,” Bratt said, describing Ernesto’s return as driven by revenge, with the plot sending Miguel back to the Land of the Dead where he must team up with the very man whose reputation he shattered years earlier.

The sequel reunites much of the creative team behind the original film. Lee Unkrich, who directed the first “Coco,” is returning to direct alongside Adrian Molina, who co-wrote and co-directed the 2017 film. Mark Nielsen, a Pixar veteran whose producing credits include “Toy Story 4” and “Inside Out 2,” is attached to produce the new movie. The songwriting team behind the original film’s music, including Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, is expected to contribute new songs for the sequel as well.

The original “Coco,” released over Thanksgiving weekend in 2017, followed a 12-year-old boy named Miguel who dreams of becoming a musician despite a generations-old family ban on music. On the Mexican holiday of Día de los Muertos, Miguel is accidentally transported to the Land of the Dead, where he uncovers long-buried secrets about his family history and ultimately exposes Ernesto de la Cruz as having stolen his musical legacy, and his life, from a forgotten songwriter. The film became both a critical and commercial success, grossing more than $800 million worldwide and winning two Academy Awards, for best animated feature and for best original song, “Remember Me.”

“Coco 2” was first announced in March 2025, when then-Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger revealed during the company’s annual shareholder meeting that a sequel was in early development, with a target release window of 2029. At the time, Iger offered only limited detail about the project, saying the film would be “full of humor, heart and adventure,” while cautioning that the movie remained in its initial planning stages.

More than a year later, Friday’s D23 presentation offered fans their first real look at how the story will unfold. According to reporting from the event, Miguel’s return trip to the Land of the Dead will find him navigating both his musical ambitions and his family relationships years after the events of the first film, while Ernesto’s reappearance suggests the sequel will directly address unresolved questions about the villain’s fate following his public downfall. Hector, Miguel’s great-great-grandfather and closest ally from the first film, is also expected to return for the sequel, according to reporting on the announcement.

“Coco 2” is scheduled to open in theaters November 21, 2029, positioning its release to coincide with the Día de los Muertos holiday, which falls on November 1 and 2 each year, mirroring the thematic timing of the original film’s Thanksgiving-season release. The sequel will mark Pixar’s 35th animated feature film and will make “Coco” the seventh Pixar franchise to receive a sequel, following in the footsteps of “Toy Story,” “Cars,” “Monsters, Inc.,” “Finding Nemo,” “The Incredibles” and “Inside Out.”

Friday’s D23 presentation also included new details on several other upcoming Pixar projects. The studio unveiled fresh concept art for “Incredibles 3,” confirming a June 16, 2028 release date and revealing that the film will shift its focus toward the Parr family’s three children, Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack, rather than centering primarily on patriarch Bob Parr as the earlier films did. Pixar also previewed a new original film called “Ghost Market,” slated for 2028, centered on a teenage content creator from Chicago who stumbles upon a hidden marketplace connecting the worlds of the living and the dead, and gave fans an updated look at “Gatto,” an original film about an unlikely animal duo set to arrive in theaters next March.

Beyond the new film itself, Disney is also expanding the “Coco” franchise into other parts of its business. The company confirmed it is currently constructing a new “Coco”-themed ride at Disney California Adventure park in Anaheim, with an opening targeted for sometime next year, and announced that “Coco” will be featured as part of the upcoming video game “Kingdom Hearts IV,” expected to launch in 2027.

With “Coco 2” still more than three years from release, Pixar has not yet announced additional cast members beyond Bratt, nor has the studio released a trailer or further plot details. For now, fans of the original film have a confirmed release date and a first glimpse of a teenage Miguel to anticipate as the sequel continues moving through production.

LONDON — Football fandom is undergoing a fundamental shift, with growing numbers of supporters attaching themselves to individual star players rather than the clubs those players represent, according to new research and interviews with sports industry analysts examining the trend.

The clearest recent example came with Lionel Messi’s 2023 move to Inter Miami, a transfer that instantly reshaped the club’s global visibility. Sports brand strategist James Kirkham said the shift in fan behavior surrounding that move has become increasingly common far beyond South Florida. People across the United Kingdom and Europe can now regularly be seen wearing that flamingo pink of Inter Miami, Kirkham said, despite having no personal connection to the city or team, a pattern he attributed directly to Messi’s individual pull rather than any traditional club loyalty.

That dynamic extends well beyond Messi and his longtime rival Cristiano Ronaldo, whose move to Saudi Arabia’s Al-Nassr has produced a similar wave of fans following the player into an unfamiliar league. Kirkham said the trend traces back further, to the growing influence of football video games on younger fans, pointing to an earlier surge of support for Zlatan Ibrahimovic driven by similar dynamics. He described younger supporters as generally less rigid or tribal in their club loyalties than previous generations, while possessing a far more detailed knowledge of individual players developed through games such as EA Sports FC and Football Manager, alongside YouTube and trading cards.

New research backs up the scale of that shift. A study titled “The Rise of the Second Club Fan,” published by the sports marketing firms Engage and MTM ahead of this summer’s World Cup, found that 80% of football supporters worldwide now follow a second team in addition to the one they grew up supporting. Matthew Kyle, the report’s head of insights and its author, said the trend does not typically reflect fans abandoning their primary club, but rather layering on additional teams or players to follow alongside their original allegiance. According to the report, the single most powerful gateway into following a second club is an individual player, meaning fan support can effectively migrate whenever that player transfers to a new team. The report put it directly: “These fans track individuals, not institutions.”

The report’s authors trace the modern version of this dynamic back to 2018, when French forward Antoine Griezmann staged an elaborate, LeBron James-inspired television special to announce he was staying at Atletico Madrid rather than joining Barcelona. Griezmann’s self-produced reveal drew criticism at the time, but Kyle said the same approach would likely land very differently today if attempted by a player with the current cultural reach of Erling Haaland or Kylian Mbappe. In the years since, top players including Haaland, Ronaldo, Jude Bellingham and England forward Ella Toone have built out their own YouTube channels and content platforms, increasingly controlling their own public narratives independent of the clubs they play for.

This summer’s World Cup, held across North America, offered a clear demonstration of how quickly a player’s individual following can expand. Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha became a breakout star of the tournament following standout performances against Spain, watching his Instagram following grow from roughly 50,000 to nearly 30 million. Spain and Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal and Bellingham both saw major follower spikes during the tournament as well, while even the already widely followed Ronaldo posted further gains. The biggest individual winner, according to Kyle, was Norway’s Haaland. “Haaland was a massive winner from the World Cup,” Kyle said, noting the forward gained more than 51 million followers across his social media accounts in the roughly six weeks following July 1, compared with just 11 million gained across the entire first half of the year.

The question facing clubs, analysts said, is what happens once a star player who has driven that kind of individual following eventually departs. Turkish club Trabzonspor is currently experiencing a surge in international attention following the arrival of Egyptian star Mohamed Salah after his lengthy run at Liverpool, while Tottenham Hotspur is now working through the transition following South Korean icon Son Heung-min’s move to LAFC last summer. Kyle noted that while Tottenham did not see an immediate collapse in its South Korean social media following after Son’s departure, LAFC did register a smaller spike in new followers tied specifically to his arrival there. He said clubs facing this dynamic need to focus on delivering content fans still want to engage with, including behind-the-scenes material that can draw interest even from supporters with no traditional connection to the club itself.

The broader shift has even extended to ownership, with high-profile examples such as Wrexham, co-owned by actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, drawing new audiences who may have limited prior interest in football itself but are instead following the owners’ own celebrity and storytelling. Kirkham said the growing web of ways fans can now engage with football, through players’ individual platforms, celebrity ownership stories, and traditional club coverage, has ultimately expanded rather than diluted the sport’s overall reach, giving fans more entry points than ever before to find a personal connection to the game.

An estimated one in three American adults has prediabetes, a condition in which blood sugar levels run higher than normal but have not yet reached the threshold for type 2 diabetes, according to figures cited by health researchers. While the diagnosis can be alarming, doctors and dietitians say the condition is often reversible through sustained changes to diet and activity, and several specific foods have emerged as consistent recommendations across major medical institutions for helping manage and even improve blood sugar levels.

Health experts broadly agree that no single “prediabetes diet” exists in an official, one-size-fits-all sense. The American Diabetes Association has said there is no official “ADA diet,” but rather a set of eating patterns, including Mediterranean-style, DASH and vegetarian approaches, that share common features shown to help manage or prevent progression to diabetes. Johns Hopkins Medicine similarly emphasizes a balanced, sustainable approach over restrictive fad diets, noting that eliminating entire food groups is generally not necessary or advisable.

Non-starchy vegetables rank among the most consistently recommended foods for people with prediabetes. Leafy greens, broccoli, bell peppers, carrots and asparagus are low in carbohydrates relative to their volume, meaning they have a comparatively small effect on blood sugar while delivering substantial fiber, vitamins and minerals. Johns Hopkins Medicine recommends filling roughly half of each plate with these vegetables as part of a broader meal-planning approach adapted from U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines.

Beans and other legumes have drawn specific attention from dietitians for their blood sugar benefits. Lauren Harris-Pincus, a registered dietitian and author focused on prediabetes nutrition, has pointed to research showing that consuming about five cups of beans per week over the long term is associated with consistently lower blood sugar levels, along with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, a significant concern for people with prediabetes. She has attributed much of that benefit to beans’ high fiber content, which can increase feelings of fullness and support broader weight management efforts.

Whole grains, including brown rice, quinoa, oatmeal and whole-wheat bread and pasta, are recommended in place of refined grains such as white bread, white rice and white pasta. According to Harvard Health, whole grains qualify as complex carbohydrates, meaning their fiber content causes them to be broken down more slowly by the body, resulting in a smaller and more gradual effect on blood glucose compared with refined, simple carbohydrates. Harvard Health nutrition expert Katherine Oliveira has explained that a diet heavy in refined carbohydrates can force the pancreas to work in overdrive to produce insulin, a strain that can eventually contribute to the pancreas functioning less effectively over time and increase the risk of progressing to diabetes.

Lean proteins, including poultry, fish, eggs, and plant-based options such as tofu and legumes, round out the recommended plate composition alongside vegetables and whole grains. The American Diabetes Association’s adapted plate-method guidance suggests filling about a quarter of the plate with healthy carbohydrates and the remainder with a combination of non-starchy vegetables and lean protein sources.

Nuts and seeds have also drawn support from research into Mediterranean-style eating patterns. A large clinical trial known as PREDIMED, which compared a Mediterranean diet against a low-fat eating pattern in patients with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, found that participants following a Mediterranean diet enriched with either olive oil or nuts saw improved blood sugar management after four years, along with a reduced need for glucose-lowering medications, according to a consensus report published by the American Diabetes Association. That same Mediterranean pattern, which emphasizes healthy fats like olive oil alongside whole grains and lean protein, has been separately endorsed by Johns Hopkins Medicine as a well-supported approach for people managing prediabetes.

Low-glycemic fruits, including berries, apples and citrus, are generally recommended over higher-sugar options, since they tend to cause a more gradual rise in blood sugar compared with fruit juices or dried fruits with concentrated natural sugars.

Beyond specific food choices, experts emphasize the importance of limiting foods that can cause rapid blood sugar spikes. Sugary beverages, refined grains, baked goods, candy and other foods high in added sugar are consistently flagged across major health organizations as foods to minimize. The World Health Organization recommends limiting added sugar intake to less than 10% of total daily calories, with additional health benefits associated with keeping that figure at 5% or below. Added sugars can also hide in less obviously sweet foods, including breakfast cereals, frozen meals, sauces and salad dressings, making label-reading an important habit for people managing prediabetes.

Doctors and dietitians generally frame these dietary changes as most effective when paired with regular physical activity and, where appropriate, weight management, rather than relying on diet changes in isolation. The overarching message from major health institutions is one of sustainability over restriction: an eating pattern that a person can realistically maintain long-term is likely to produce better outcomes than a short-term, highly restrictive diet that proves difficult to sustain.

This article discusses general nutrition information related to prediabetes and is not a substitute for personalized medical advice. Anyone diagnosed with prediabetes, or concerned about their blood sugar levels, should speak with a doctor or registered dietitian to develop an eating plan tailored to their individual health needs.

Land Rover unveiled a road-legal version of its Dakar Rally-winning race vehicle this week, revealing the Defender Dakar during Monterey Car Week festivities in California, a limited-run SUV that carries over much of the engineering from the company’s competition-class rally car directly onto public roads.

The Defender Dakar is built as a production evolution of the Defender D7X-R, the race vehicle Land Rover fielded in the Stock class of the 2026 Dakar Rally earlier this year. That rally effort proved highly successful, with Land Rover’s three-car team finishing first, second and fourth in class on the marque’s Dakar debut, sweeping every stage podium position across 10 of the rally’s 13 stages. Drivers Rokas Baciuška and Oriol Vidal claimed the Stock-class victory for the team.

Mark Cameron, managing director for Defender, said the road-going Defender Dakar was designed to channel that competition pedigree directly into a vehicle customers can drive on public streets. “It’s the ultimate expression of adventure and is a true reflection of how we embrace the impossible,” Cameron said, describing the new model as an embodiment of both the Defender rally team’s spirit and the brand’s broader history of off-road engineering.

Mechanically, the Defender Dakar retains the same body structure, transmission and driveline as its Dakar-winning counterpart. Both vehicles are built on a foundation derived from the range-topping Defender Octa, and both are powered by a 4.4-liter twin-turbocharged V8 engine sourced from BMW. Because the road-going version is not bound by motorsport regulations that limited the race car’s output, Land Rover was able to unlock significantly more power for the production model, with the Defender Dakar producing 626 horsepower and 553 pound-feet of torque, an increase over the roughly 394 horsepower the competition version was permitted to run under Dakar’s Stock-class rules. Power is sent to all four wheels through an eight-speed automatic transmission.

The Defender Dakar rides on 35-inch all-terrain tires mounted to forged 20-inch wheels, with a widened track, raised ride height and rally-tuned suspension featuring motorsport-style dampers, all changes intended to further enhance the vehicle’s off-road capability beyond even the already highly capable standard Defender Octa. Beyond the Octa’s existing drive modes, the Defender Dakar adds dedicated settings for dunes and gravel terrain, along with a “Flight Mode” carried over directly from the competition car, which Land Rover says is designed to help ensure smoother landings when the vehicle catches air over rough or uneven terrain.

Visually, the Defender Dakar incorporates a range of rally-inspired design elements, including roof-mounted light pods, a fixed metal roof, carbon-fiber trim across the hood and air intakes, exposed rivets along extended wheel arches, additional underbody protection, and a blanking plate covering the tailgate area where a spare wheel would normally be mounted, mirroring the rally car’s own design. Buyers will be able to specify the same sand-colored body paired with a turquoise roof used in the D7X-R’s competition livery, along with other color options.

Inside, the cabin adopts what Land Rover has described as a “tough luxury” aesthetic, featuring a 2+2 seating layout with dedicated racing bucket seats up front designed specifically for the Defender Dakar. Buyers will be able to option four-point racing harnesses and a rear storage area intended for stowing helmets, details drawn directly from the vehicle’s motorsport origins, even though the production version omits certain full-race features found in the D7X-R itself, such as a complete roll cage, perspex windows and built-in intercom systems.

Land Rover has not yet disclosed pricing or confirmed exactly how many units of the Defender Dakar it plans to build, though the model is being positioned as a limited-run offering. The company has said reservations for the vehicle will open in early 2027, with additional technical details expected to be released around the same time as the 2027 Dakar Rally. Given that the Defender Dakar sits above the already premium Defender Octa, which starts at £147,245 in the United Kingdom, industry analysts expect the new model’s pricing to land meaningfully higher once officially announced.

The Defender Dakar’s debut adds to a broader wave of high-performance, motorsport-inspired production vehicles unveiled during this year’s Monterey Car Week, with automakers increasingly using the event to showcase halo models that translate racing technology directly into limited-edition road cars aimed at enthusiast buyers and collectors.

With full specifications and pricing still to come, the Defender Dakar’s reveal at this stage functions primarily as a statement of intent from Land Rover, signaling the brand’s ambition to more directly connect its Dakar Rally success with a tangible, road-legal product for customers, even as many of the finer production details remain to be finalized ahead of the vehicle’s planned 2027 arrival.

At seven o’clock on Friday evening, every mobile phone in England and Wales went off at once. Not a ring. Not a polite buzz. The screech. That ten second government klaxon previously reserved for floods, incoming missiles and, we now discover, the disposable barbecue.

An entire nation shot two feet into the air. At the Royal Albert Hall, one imagines the Proms audience concluding that Russia had hacked every handset in the stalls to give the 1812 Overture an unusually literal opening. In a thousand pub gardens, overlooking lawns the colour and texture of a digestive biscuit, men quietly lowered bags of charcoal back into their boots with the practised calm of getaway drivers returning the loot.

It was a severe alert. Very high risk of wildfires nationally, it said. No firepits, no garden incinerators, no fireworks, and under no circumstances a barbecue.

Every family in Britain used to contain an uncle of a very particular sort. Call him Derek. Forty Rothmans a day, a good number of them in bed, and yet, to be entirely fair to him, the finest domestic smoke alarm network in the Home Counties.

Detectors in every room, tested each Sunday before lunch. An interlinked system, so that a crisp packet smouldering in the kitchen would summon a full choir upstairs. A heat sensor in the garage, though the garage contained nothing but paraffin and old copies of Exchange and Mart. No man in the land took fire detection more seriously.

What Derek would not do, under any circumstances, was stop smoking in bed. Prevention, he felt, was a job for the alarms.

I raise this great British archetype because on Friday the government officially became him.

Consider Friday’s running order. In the evening, Whitehall pressed the big red button on the most extensive emergency alert ever sent for a live incident, a warning triggered by a drought that has left nearly three quarters of England officially parched after the driest July in 190 years, and by fires that had already taken 19 homes in Stourbridge. That very same day, the Department for Transport opened a consultation asking whether the 2030 electric car sales targets remain, in its word, practical, with ministers briefing that the 80 per cent goal could soften towards 50.

Nor was that the only quiet loosening of the week. Ministers also let it be known that public contracts worth £5 million or more may soon be scored more heavily on jobs and training than on net zero and diversity measures. Each move is defensible on its own terms, no doubt. So, Derek would tell you, is one cigarette.

Same government. Same week. One hand on the fire alarm, the other patting its pockets for the lighter.

And the fire is not hypothetical. Reservoirs are at 69 per cent and falling, 27 million people are under hosepipe bans, and this summer’s heatwaves have already cost the economy £4.4 billion in lost output. I wrote earlier this summer about Britain’s browning fields, and they have only got browner since.

Business readers will recognise the arrangement, because every one of us has sat in that meeting. The risk register says severe. The mitigation budget says deferred. If a FTSE board flagged a threat as critical, texted every employee about it, then diluted the one policy addressing its cause in the same afternoon, the auditors would be through the door by Monday and the share price through the floor by lunch.

And here is the question someone should force a minister to answer. If the consequence is grave enough to interrupt the Proms, why are the causes a matter for leisurely consultation? A wildfire is not weather, it is arithmetic. Emissions warm the planet, the warming dries the land, and the dry land sits waiting for a spark. You cannot classify the bottom line of that equation as a national emergency while filing the lines above it under red tape.

Yet that is the official position. Sirens for the symptom, consultations for the causes. Transport remains Britain’s largest source of the emissions doing the drying, and the message it received this week was: as you were. An emergency that changes nothing except the volume of your phone is not a policy. It is a ringtone.

No business would survive run this way. When the warehouse is smouldering, you do not commission a review into whether the sprinkler budget remains practical.

Derek’s alarms, I should record, worked flawlessly. They sang like a cathedral choir right up to the night the mattress finally caught. He escaped in his slippers, the bedroom did not, and the man from the Prudential asked the only question that ever mattered. You knew the risk. You measured the risk. You wired the whole house to scream about the risk. So why were you still feeding it?

Next time my phone screeches on a Friday evening, I shan’t wonder whether there’s a fire. I’ll wonder who is still smoking in bed.

Richard Alvin

Richard Alvin is a serial entrepreneur, a former advisor to the UK Government about small business and an Honorary Teaching Fellow on Business at Lancaster University.

A winner of the London Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the year and Freeman of the City of London for his services to business and charity. Richard is also Group MD of Capital Business Media and SME business research company Trends Research, regarded as one of the UK’s leading experts in the SME sector and an active angel investor and advisor to new start companies.

Richard is also the host of Save Our Business the U.S. based business advice television show.

Richard is also the founder of the CBM Foundation, Capital Business Media’s charitable foundation, which gives 1% of the group’s time, product and profit to charity every year.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Lucasfilm and Disney gave fans their first extended look at “Star Wars: Starfighter” on Friday night, unveiling exclusive footage and confirming that star Ryan Gosling will play a pilot named Kade Auberon in the standalone film set in an uncharted corner of the “Star Wars” timeline.

Director Shawn Levy and Gosling appeared together on stage at the Honda Center during Disney’s D23 Entertainment Showcase to present the footage, which was shown exclusively to the audience in the room and was not released publicly online. Levy introduced Gosling’s character to the crowd, describing him as someone shaped by his origins on the margins of the galaxy. “Kade is a guy from the wrong side of the galaxy,” Levy said, tying the character’s story directly to his connection with an extraordinary vessel at the center of the film’s plot.

According to multiple outlets that attended the presentation, the footage opened with newcomer Flynn Gray’s as-yet-unnamed young character uncovering a weathered starfighter inside a rundown spaceship garage. Gosling’s Kade then enters the scene, chiding the boy for touching the ship despite having been warned not to. When the boy asks what the vessel is, Kade identifies it as a decommissioned G17, describing it as the fastest starfighter ever built, a detail that gives the film its title.

The footage went on to show a series of action sequences, including speeder bikes racing across swampy terrain, large Imperial-style starships, and a brief cameo of the same bridge Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa famously swung across in the original 1977 “Star Wars” film. The sequence closed with a cockpit-view shot of Gosling piloting the ship, a moment several outlets compared visually to similar shots from “Top Gun.”

“Star Wars: Starfighter” is set after the events of 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” taking place in a portion of the franchise’s timeline the filmmakers have said has never previously been explored on screen and deliberately steers clear of the Skywalker family storyline that has anchored the core “Star Wars” saga. Levy described the film’s tone to the D23 crowd as one built around a sense of adventure distinct from earlier entries in the franchise, saying it embodies the hope, family and adventure long associated with “Star Wars” while venturing into new territory for the series.

Gosling also addressed the crowd directly, reflecting on his own history with Disney dating back to his early career on “The All-New Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1990s. Before Gosling took the stage, Levy played a clip from that Disney Channel show poking fun at his young co-star. Once Gosling appeared, he credited the company with giving him his start in entertainment. “I owe a lot to Disney,” Gosling said, reflecting on how the opportunity, which brought him from his hometown decades earlier, had once again reshaped his career with the new role.

The film is written by Jonathan Tropper and also stars Amy Adams, Aaron Pierre, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman and Daniel Ings, alongside Gosling and Gray. “Star Wars: Starfighter” is scheduled to arrive in theaters and IMAX on May 28, 2027, a release date Levy noted carries special significance: it falls on the same Memorial Day weekend that the original “Star Wars” opened in theaters exactly 50 years earlier. Levy called the timing an unplanned but deeply meaningful coincidence.

The film represents a significant bet for Lucasfilm following a challenging summer at the box office. The studio’s most recent live-action release, “Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu,” finished as the lowest-grossing live-action “Star Wars” film to date, closing out its run at roughly $345 million worldwide against a production budget reported at around $165 million before marketing costs. With Levy coming off directing “Deadpool & Wolverine,” the highest-grossing R-rated film in box office history at $1.33 billion worldwide, and Gosling bringing broad star power following roles in films including “La La Land,” “Blade Runner 2049” and “Drive,” Lucasfilm is positioning “Starfighter” as a potential reset for the franchise’s theatrical fortunes.

Friday’s D23 presentation was part of a broader night of “Star Wars” news at the event, which also included the release date and costume reveals for the second season of “Ahsoka.” The Starfighter reveal capped months of anticipation, following Lucasfilm’s earlier confirmation of the project’s basic premise at prior fan events, including Star Wars Celebration.

With the footage limited to those in attendance and no confirmed date yet for a public trailer release, fans outside the Honda Center will need to rely on secondhand descriptions from journalists who attended the showcase until Lucasfilm and Disney decide to release footage more broadly ahead of the film’s Memorial Day 2027 debut.