Shawn Levy's new Star Wars movie, Star Wars: Starfighter, exploded on the scene at this weekend's Star Wars Celebration convention in Chiba, Japan. Levy and the movie's star, Ryan Gosling, addressed the ecstatic crowd and discussed their own fandom for the venerable space opera series. Collider's Maggie Lovitt was on the scene.

Levy, who busted the box office bank with last year's Deadpool & Wolverine, talked about how much Star Wars meant to him as a fan, and how important it was to create a new story in the sandbox:

We're one of them. We're one of them. You know, there's obviously a relationship between these stories and the audience, but we've spent our lives in the audience, and we know how meaningful it is. As Ryan said, it's a big galaxy. It's a big galaxy, and it feels like there's an opportunity to do a movie that's not a prequel,...