Ryan Gosling is in talks to join Star Wars, but why has Lucasfilm departed from George Lucas' approach to casting the Jedi and the Sith?

Little is known about Levy's project, but it could send the Blade Runner and Barbie star to, well, the stars. The future of Star Wars movies is always in an uncertain level of motion, but one of the most mysterious projects among the many mysterious projects Lucasfilm has cooking at the moment might have just taken a major step forward.

And this, you feel, is why Ryan Gosling will be the perfect man to take the lead in a Levy film. He has that Ford ability to combine humour and heavy charisma, as seen when the pair matched up in Blade Runner 2049. You have a sense of him operating with a self-aware twinkle in his eye, knowing he’s a pretty boy whilst also undercutting it.