Director Shawn Levy has revealed that Star Wars: Starfighter follows characters “from the wrong side of the galaxy” in a story that drew inspiration from Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film, The Outsiders.
Coppola’s The Outsiders adapted S.E. Hinton’s classic young adult novel about clashing teens in 1960s Oklahoma. Hinton’s tale depicts the increasingly violent and tragic antagonism between the working class “Greasers” and the upper-middle-class “Socs”.
Speaking with Fandango over the weekend at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, Levy said he and star Ryan Gosling sparked to that idea that the protagonists of Starfighter could, like the Greasers, come from “the wrong side of the tracks.”
“They’re not the privileged ones. They’re from the wrong side of the tracks,” Levy said. “Our characters in Starfighter are from the wrong side of the galaxy. And it’s about these sort of marginalized outsiders who find each other and have a shot at discovering heroism through their connections.”
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