Phase One of the High Republic is over. The massive Star Wars storytelling initiative that launched in January 2021 wrapped up its first of three planned phases recently, and the first phase included a staggering nine books, five comic series spanning 38 combined issues, two manga books, an audio drama, and a few short stories. [...]
Today, fans of Star Wars Rebels are celebrating Rebels Remembered Day on social media, giving people the chance to talk once more about the beloved show - one that has become absolutely integral to so many elements of the current and future stories from the galaxy far, far away. I've written on a previous Rebels [...]
A while ago, Pablo Hidalgo made some headlines for a (now deleted) tweet about one of the proposals for Coruscant in The Force Awakens - namely, that it would be destroyed. He said that basically some folks at Bad Robot (J.J. Abrams's production company) wanted Coruscant to be blown up by the First Order, but [...]
On March 2, 2022, Alan Ladd Jr. passed away at the age of 84. Ladd was a respected film producer who ran 20th Century Fox in the 1970s, greenlighting films like Star Wars and Alien. He would later go on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture as the producer of Braveheart in 1995. [...]
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 [...]
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