In Solo: A Star Wars Story, we met Han Solo, before there was a “Solo”. When we first meet him in the film, he’s just “Han,” a young boy living on the streets of Corellia, but after a failed escape attempt resulted in Qi’ra being taken, Han joins the Empire. When asked for his family [...]
Today on Twitter, the hashtag #MakeSolo2Happen is trending, thanks in large part to the efforts of those at Star Wars News Net for rallying the community together all on one day. It's a pretty impressive thing for the hashtag to be trending on this random May day, and it just further goes to show that [...]
Recently, Walt Disney Studios head Alan Horn did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about a number of films and projects for Disney. Among other things, Horn said that he recently returned from a trip to the U.K. to visit the set of Episode IX and spend time with J.J. Abrams and Kathy [...]
The official nominations for the Academy Awards were released today, and Solo: A Star Wars Story was nominated for the Oscar in Best Visual Effects. Solo will be competing with Avengers: Infinity War, Christopher Robin, First Man, and Ready Player One in this category. Industrial Lights & Magic actually worked on three of these five [...]
As life slows down for the heroes temporarily, romance develops between Han and Leia... and Luke and Tula!
As 2018 comes to a close, let's take a look back at the very best of Star Wars from this year.
If you're finding this holiday season a bit strange, you're not alone: this is the first Christmas without a new Star Wars film since 2014. Of course, that really should just highlight how incredibly fortunate we have been to get a Star Wars movie every year for the last few years, and we're truly living [...]
Solo: A Star Wars Story received no favors from Disney and Lucasfilm when it came to marketing the film prior to its release, and they're still receiving no favors from them after its release. In a stunning oversight, the score from Solo has been disqualified from Oscars consideration, according to Variety, because it was entered [...]
John Williams and John Powell have both been nominated for Grammys due to their Star Wars work!
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter published today, Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger had some interesting comments about Star Wars. In particular, Iger took the blame for Solo: A Star Wars Story's disapointment at the box office, and acknowledged that there will be a Star Wars "slowdown" coming. Here's the pertinent quote: [...]
Star Wars Thoughts 