At Del Rey's Star Wars publishing panel today at San Diego Comic Con, the company announced several upcoming releases that are quite exciting. Most prominent among them are new novels about Padme, as well as about Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi. The Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan novel, titled Master and Apprentice, will be written by Claudia [...]
Next month, Del Rey will release the highly-anticipated Star Wars novel Thrawn: Alliances, written by veteran Star Wars author Timothy Zahn. The book, a sequel to Zahn's Thrawn released in 2017, further follows the exploits of Zahn's greatest creation and one of the greatest characters in the Star Wars universe, Grand Admiral Thrawn. This time, [...]
If you've been following Star Wars news over the last week, you'll know that there has been quite the commotion over the future of the standalone movies. With Solo: A Star Wars Story not performing nearly as well at the box office as expected, many capitalized on that to express concern for the future of [...]
In the recent Star Wars novel "Last Shot" by Daniel Jose Older, Han Solo and Lando Calrissian team up on a mission vital to the galaxy's well-being decades in the making. What more do you need to know? The novel was released as a tie-in to Solo: A Star Wars Story, and it does indeed [...]
Last night, the Hollywood Reporter's Borys Kit had some exciting news: a Boba Fett movie appears to be coming! According to the report, James Mangold will write and direct a Boba Fett standalone film. It sounds like Simon Kinberg - who has long been rumored to be in talks to do a Boba Fett movie [...]
At the Solo premiere last weekend, we got a significant tidbit of information from Jon Favreau: his live-action Star Wars TV show will be set seven years after the Battle of Yavin. This is according to Nerdist's Dan Casey, who spoke with Favreau on the red carpet. Favreau voices the alien Rio Durant, a member [...]
Lucasfilm today announced that Jon Favreau will executive produce and write a live-action Star Wars television series. Favreau has directed popular films such as Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Disney's live-action The Jungle Book, and Elf, as well as serving as executive producer of Iron Man 3, The Avengers, and Avengers: Age of Ultron. He [...]
The future of the Star Wars universe continues to look bright. Solo, the second anthology film, will release in a few months, while Episode IX will release in 2019. Beyond that, Rian Johnson is creating a new trilogy of films separate from the Skywalker saga. Today, Lucasfilm announced that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will [...]
When Disney took over Lucasfilm in 2014, the vast Star Wars Expanded Universe was rendered non-canonical, grouped into the "Legends" category. The idea was to allow the next generation of Star Wars storytellers to have a blank slate to create with, as well as promoting continuity across all storytelling mediums. But those involved in these [...]
Yesterday, it was announced that Rian Johnson is returning to the Star Wars universe to create a brand new trilogy! And if that's not exciting enough, there was a report from Variety that Lucasfilm will also develop a live-action Star Wars TV show that will air on Disney's streaming service that will launch in 2019! Many people [...]
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