Kathleen Kennedy signs three-year extension as Lucasfilm president!

Kathleen Kennedy signs three-year extension as Lucasfilm president!

Great news today coming via a report from The Hollywood Reporter: Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has signed a three-year extension to keep her running the company through at least 2021! Kennedy has done an unquestionably great job as the hand-picked successor to George Lucas, taking over the company amidst Disney's acquisition of the company for [...]

Plot summaries for the first five episodes of Star Wars: Resistance released!

Plot summaries for the first five episodes of Star Wars: Resistance released!

Star Wars: Resistance premieres in ten days, and recently the plot synopsis for each of the first five episodes were released! These brief blurbs about the first five episodes help us to get a better idea as to what to expect from the show, at least early on, and two things are clear: there figures [...]

Chewbacca legendary event is coming to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes!

Chewbacca legendary event is coming to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes!

Exciting news was announced over the past week regarding the popular Star Wars mobile game Galaxy of Heroes, as the original trilogy, Rebel Chewbacca is coming to the game as a legendary event! The tl;dr version of this is that it's really, really awesome that Rebel Chewbacca is (finally) coming to the game (I had [...]

Legendary Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz dies at age 78

Legendary Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz dies at age 78

Sad news was announced by Lucasfilm this morning, as the family of Gary Kurtz announced that the legendary producer died on Sunday after a battle with cancer.  He was 78. It is hard to tell the story of Star Wars without Gary Kurtz. He first collaborated with George Lucas on the surprise hit American Graffiti [...]

We now know what happened to General Draven after Rogue One

We now know what happened to General Draven after Rogue One

One of the truly great things about the Star Wars comics is that we get plenty of interesting reveals, thrilling tie-ins, and answers to questions. That was certainly the case once again recently, as Star Wars #54, released earlier this week, tied in one of the characters from Rogue One and revealed his fate. We're [...]

The Last Jedi comic adaptation does a beautiful job of tying Luke Skywalker’s journey together

The Last Jedi comic adaptation does a beautiful job of tying Luke Skywalker’s journey together

The final issue of the Star Wars: The Last Jedi Adaptation was released this month, and it wrapped up a terrific six issue comic adaptation of the film, written by Gary Whitta and illustrated by Michael Walsh. Many of the 'new' elements of the book focused on the character of Luke Skywalker, which was a good [...]

Bob Iger takes the blame for Solo’s box office disapointment; says a Star Wars “slowdown” is coming

Bob Iger takes the blame for Solo’s box office disapointment; says a Star Wars “slowdown” is coming

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter published today, Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger had some interesting comments about Star Wars. In particular, Iger took the blame for Solo: A Star Wars Story's disapointment at the box office, and acknowledged that there will be a Star Wars "slowdown" coming. Here's the pertinent quote: [...]

Ten interesting tidbits learned from the Solo: A Star Wars Story Visual Dictionary

Ten interesting tidbits learned from the Solo: A Star Wars Story Visual Dictionary

One of the most essential publications that goes along with each Star Wars movie is the visual dictionary, written by Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm story group. In these visual dictionaries there are a ton of interesting tidbits and factoids that are shared that add to our understanding of the movie and of the universe [...]

25 characters I’d like to see added to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes

25 characters I’d like to see added to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes

Since I've recently started writing a bit about the popular mobile game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, I thought I'd put together a quick list of 25 characters who I'd really love to see come to the game. These characters range from those for whom there's no legitimate explanation for why they're not already in [...]