Andor is the next major Star Wars story to release, premiering in less than a month on Disney+, and I think it's going to be great. The show has, in many ways, flown under the radar since it was first announced a few years ago, thanks in part to the massive hype surrounding Obi-Wan Kenobi [...]
The return of Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen for Obi-Wan Kenobi was a pure delight, and now fans will get a chance to see behind the scenes about how it all happened. Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return will premiere on Disney+ on Thursday, September 8, giving audiences a look at how the show was made. [...]
The Star Wars Jedi series is expanding. It began with the fantastic video game Jedi: Fallen Order in 2019, and an accompanying book, The Art of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, was released detailing the making of the game. Next year, the sequel to the game arrives with Jedi: Survivor, set five years after the [...]
In the most recent Lego Star Wars special, Summer Vacation, Finn plans a vacation for his friends aboard the Halcyon. It doesn't go like he planned, and he's sad about it because he envisioned this as a final getaway before each of them go their separate ways. Eventually, he discloses to Leia (speaking with him [...]
In the wake of the completion of the Star Wars sequel trilogy with the release of The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, the main actors of the trilogy all expressed a desire to move beyond the franchise. Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac all seemed burnt out from Star Wars and ready to do [...]
Charles Soule's Crimson Reign comic miniseries wrapped up recently, completing the second part of a trilogy of stories that began with the War of the Bounty Hunters last year. It will conclude with the Hidden Empire, another five-issue miniseries that begins in November. In War of the Bounty Hunters, Qi'ra emerged after years of lying [...]
The next major Star Wars project is coming next month, with Andor set to premiere on September 21. That's later than the original release date, but it will premiere with the first three episodes of the show. And in case there was any wondering, Star Wars has now disclosed the release date of all twelve [...]
The Princess and the Scoundrel, by Beth Revis, releases next week, but we've already been able to read quite a bit from it. The first excerpt from the book focused on Luke telling Leia about Vader's redemption. The second excerpt saw Luke and Leia talking about what the future might look like for them. A [...]
It's been six and a half years since the release of The Force Awakens, in which it was revealed that Han Solo and Leia Organa had a son, Ben. He went off to train with Luke Skywalker, but turned to the dark side - an event that tore the family apart. The Last Jedi expanded [...]
In a noted shift from the previous strategy for Star Wars shows on Disney+, Andor was filmed with practical sets rather than with the Volume. "Yep, we're old school," showrunner Tony Gilroy told Empire recently. "We didn't use StageCraft at all." The Volume is a groundbreaking filming technique developed by Jon Favreau and ILM for [...]
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