There has been a very strange mystery that's lurked in the background of some Star Wars discussion the last few years surrounding the identity of Rothgar Deng - and whether he's actually Dengar. And it seems like we just keep getting more and more hints that they're actually the same person. Let me unpack the [...]
In The Book of Boba Fett Chapter 6, "From the Desert Comes a Stranger," we saw a number of droids busy at work building the beginnings of Luke Skywalker's Jedi Temple. Both Ahsoka and Luke mention that Grogu would be the first student at this new school, this Jedi Academy (which turns out not to [...]
The long-awaited next chapter of the Indiana Jones franchise has wrapped filming! The yet-untitled Indiana Jones 5 began filming in June 2021, with such a lengthy production schedule presumably at least in part due to the injury suffered by star Harrison Ford on set. But on Sunday, producer Frank Marshall tweeted an announcement that the [...]
According to Film Music Reporter, Nicholas Brittel is providing the score for the upcoming Andor series on Disney+! Britell has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Original Score: for Moonlight (2017), If Beale Street Could Talk (2019), and Don't Look Up (2021). Over the last six years for that award, Britell [...]
Ian McDiarmid returned as Emperor Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker, where the character was revealed as the one pulling the strings behind the sequel trilogy, yet Palpatine met with a pretty definitive ending when he was defeated by Rey. That doesn't mean that Palpatine is done in Star Wars, however. Those stories just might [...]
On February 18, Rich Veitch posted on Facebook that his brother, Tom Veitch, had passed away from COVID-19 at the age of 80. A comic book writer for much of his career, Veitch played an instrumental role in the resurgence of Star Wars storytelling in the 1990s, helping to launch the Expanded Universe that is [...]
On Instagram recently, Anthony Daniels posted a picture of himself dressed in a motion capture suit, making it clear with the hashtags that it's for his role of C-3PO. https://www.instagram.com/p/CZKU-LIL0gm/ There is no mention there about which project it's for, only confirming that it is as 3PO - alongside a joke about finally having a [...]
One of the many new Star Wars shows coming to Disney+ this year is Andor, which will be premiering something late summer or early fall, though no official release date has yet been announced. But it sounds like the second season of the show will begin filming around the time the first season is set [...]
Star Wars Rebels contains some of the finest Star Wars storytelling we've ever seen. The animated series ran for four years and, despite being written off by some as a childish show for kids, reached some highs that rival the best of the best in the galaxy far, far away. With Dave Filoni as showrunner, [...]
So far, the different live-action Star Wars series for Disney+ have proven to be an opportunity for a variety of different directors to jump into the galaxy far, far away. The first season of The Mandalorian featured five different directors, while the second season featured seven different ones (including four newcomers from season one). The [...]
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