When Qui-Gon Jinn finally showed up in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, it wasn't a surprise - but it was glorious. Jinn appeared in the show's final scene as a Force ghost, completing a season-long arc of Obi-Wan trying (and failing) to communicate with his long-dead master. Jinn discovered a way to return from the netherworld [...]
Last month, Disney/Lucasfilm Press published an anthology collection of Star Wars stories, about various characters and written by various authors, called Star Wars: Stories of Jedi and Sith. It's a very similar format as the book that was released a couple of years ago, Star Wars The Clone Wars: Stories of Light and Dark, which [...]
Taika Waititi is a busy man, and he's currently promoting the release of his latest film, Thor: Love and Thunder, which releases in the United States on July 8. He's also directing the next Star Wars theatrical film, but we don't know much about that yet. What Waititi did disclose recently, though, is that it [...]
What happened in-between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi? Charles Soule is hard at work currently filling in that time period. He's writing the main Star Wars comic line, which focuses on the time period, but he's also in the midst of a trilogy of stories that is telling an influential story [...]
The five-part Crimson Reign comic mini-series by Charles Soule has wrapped up! The story is the middle chapter in a trilogy about Qi'ra and Crimson Dawn set in-between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. It comes after the five-part War of the Bounty Hunters series, and it sets up the final chapter, [...]
The Knights of Ren are back, and they're preparing to infiltrate Darth Vader's Castle on Mustafar! That's the premise of Crimson Reign #4, written by Charles Soule, which is the fourth of five issues in the mini-series detailing Qi'ra's plan to strike against the Sith as she leads Crimson Dawn in the period in-between The [...]
With the Obi-Wan Kenobi series having wrapped up, Star Wars recently released a short behind the scenes featurette about the series, giving us a chance to hear briefly from Deborah Chow, Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, and Moses Ingram. https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1542222374929461248 The main focus of the minute and a half long clip is on the return of [...]
Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher was recently released, and it's a masterful book that tells a pivotal story set in-between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. It tells of Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian searching for Exegol, but delves into so much more. This article will get into major spoilers for [...]
Every once in a while, along comes a Star Wars book that is more than a well-written novel, more than an enjoyable tale, but something that adds so much context and depth to the franchise that it could well be considered a must-read for any Star Wars fan. Shadow of the Sith is one such [...]
Earlier this week, The Direct ran an article in which writer Stuart Beattie discussed the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. Beattie revealed that he was originally hired to write the script for the project when it was still a movie, and that he actually had three films in mind - the first of which is what became [...]
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