The Force Awakens was intended to thrust the audience right into the sequel trilogy, attempting to explain just enough backstory to inform audiences about what had transpired over the past three decades since the Battle of Endor but not delving deep into the political structure of the New Republic. I assume this was intentional, since [...]
Recently a new trailer for Star Wars: Resistance dropped, and it plays up the threat of the First Order and the quest of the Resistance. If you haven't seen the trailer yet, you can check it out below: https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1045342301965307904 While I thought the first trailer for Resistance was fine, this second trailer is much better [...]
Lucasfilm officially announced tonight that The Mandalorian has begun production! The first ever Star Wars live-action TV show, The Mandalorian is being headed up by Jon Favreau - who revealed the name and basic plot last night on Instagram! In addition to that plot synopsis, Lucasfilm announced the directors and executive producers tonight. As was [...]
Exciting news dropped yesterday, as Jon Favreau posted on his Instagram page the apparent title and plot synopsis of his live-action Star Wars TV show! Titled "The Mandalorian," Favreau writes that, "After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. The Mandalorian is set after the fall of [...]
In August, a user on Twitter found evidence on the Star Wars website that Star Wars: Resistance will be set six months before The Force Awakens. And while Lucasfilm creative executive Matt Martin didn't exactly confirm that, he did confirm the timeline of the show relative to other material. https://twitter.com/missingwords/status/1046825649371897857 The translation of that is [...]
Making Star Wars's Jason Ward has had plenty of reports about Jon Favreau's live-action Star Wars TV show recently, including that Dave Filoni will apparently direct two episodes of the first season (including the pilot!). But MSW also has a report on who may play the lead in the show. According to Ward, Pedro Pascal [...]
There are some exciting reports today from Making Star Wars's Jason Ward regarding the live-action Star Wars TV show that is coming to Disney's streaming service and is being helmed by Jon Favreau. Perhaps most notably: Ward mentions that he has heard rumors that Dave Filoni will direct two episodes of season one, which will [...]
Great news today coming via a report from The Hollywood Reporter: Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has signed a three-year extension to keep her running the company through at least 2021! Kennedy has done an unquestionably great job as the hand-picked successor to George Lucas, taking over the company amidst Disney's acquisition of the company for [...]
Star Wars: Resistance premieres in ten days, and recently the plot synopsis for each of the first five episodes were released! These brief blurbs about the first five episodes help us to get a better idea as to what to expect from the show, at least early on, and two things are clear: there figures [...]
Exciting news was announced over the past week regarding the popular Star Wars mobile game Galaxy of Heroes, as the original trilogy, Rebel Chewbacca is coming to the game as a legendary event! The tl;dr version of this is that it's really, really awesome that Rebel Chewbacca is (finally) coming to the game (I had [...]
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