With The High Republic era set 200 years before the Skywalker Saga, there aren't too many familiar faces that could show up. But one of those few who has shown up is a beloved fan-favorite: Yoda. And this makes sense, as he's nearly 900 years old by the time of his death in Return of [...]
The second comic series from The High Republic era recently launched, as The High Republic Adventures, written by Daniel José Older, launched at the beginning of the month. The Adventures Star Wars comics are typically geared toward a younger audience and have typically been one-shots in the past, but this issue set up a story [...]
So much of Star Wars is about trilogies, and that is certainly true of E.K. Johnston's novels about Padmé Amidala. It was announced yesterday that Johnston is returning to write the beloved character in the book Queen's Hope, which will release on November 2, 2021. This will complete her Padmé trilogy, coming after Queen's Shadow [...]
In the wake of Lucasfilm firing Gina Carano from The Mandalorian, I wrote about the two options that lie before them with Cara Dune: either recast her, or write her out of the show. It turns out that there's still a lack of clarity over that, even among Hollywood "insiders." Recently The Hollywood Reporter ran [...]
A month before The Last Jedi hit theaters, Lucasfilm announced that director Rian Johnson would be creating a brand new Star Wars trilogy. The announcement came after Johnson reportedly declined an offer to direct Episode IX, and instead the studio gave him a brand new trilogy of films. In a statement at the time, Lucasfilm [...]
Boba Fett has made a massive resurgence recently, being brought into the second season of The Mandalorian, and then starring in the upcoming series The Book of Boba Fett. All of this is set several years after Return of the Jedi, but it was announced today that we'll be getting a major story about the [...]
It has become very clear in all of the High Republic material so far that the Nihil pose a serious threat to the Republic. The marauders were involved in the Great Disaster and a number of subsequent and related encounters. The Republic doesn't know a whole lot about them, but they know enough to recognize [...]
In the latest novel from the High Republic era, set 200 years before The Phantom Menace, the heroes arrive at a previously abandoned space station in the wake of the Great Disaster. As such, Into the Dark by Claudia Gray sees the majority of the book take place on this space station, with four Jedi [...]
A massive new Star Wars publishing initiative began at the start of 2021, as we were taken to the brand new era of The High Republic, set 200 years before the Skywalker Saga. The storytelling includes books and comics so far, but they have been massive hits. Like, seriously, they've been huge. Light of the [...]
Yesterday, the news broke that Lucasfilm had fired Gina Carano after yet another controversial social media post, saying that there are no plans for her to appear in The Mandalorian or any show moving forward. The most important thing was not what happens in the Star Wars universe but what happened in our universe, and [...]
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