In a bit of non-Star Wars news, yet still very much related to Lucasfilm, it was recently reported by Deadline that Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to develop a trilogy of films based on Tomi Adeyemi's bestselling novel Children of Blood and Bone. What's significant is that, last we had heard, Lucasfilm had the [...]
As 2021 came to a close, the popular mobile game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes released a series of Legends characters to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Lucasfilm. Several of these characters were from classic Star Wars video games, and it turns out they're not done with that either. Iden Versio has arrived to the [...]
George Lucas and Kathy Kennedy are set to receive a very prestigious award recognizing their numerous contributions to the film industry, as the Producers Guild of America will present them with the 2022 Milestone Award at the 33rd Producers Guild Awards on March 19. The award is described as the PGA's "highest honor" and it [...]
Tatooine was the very first planet Star Wars fans were ever introduced to, appearing in A New Hope and showing up in tons of Star Wars storytelling since then, including films, shows, books, comics, games, and more. It is without question one of the most significant planets to Star Wars fans, which is ironic given [...]
It's Wednesday, which means we got a new episode of The Book of Boba Fett today! The third chapter of the seven-part series, "The Streets of Mos Espa," continues to give us a look at Boba Fett as he tries to establish rulership of the territory on Tatooine amidst rising threats. The episode was a [...]
Phase two of the High Republic storytelling era launches in October, and it's actually set 150 years prior to the events of phase one! And in telling these next chapters (or past chapters, in a way) of the story, the team is actually adding four new authors to the project. I mentioned this the other [...]
"What happens when the light of the Jedi goes dark?" That question permeated much of the lead-up to the release of the highly-anticipated end of the first phase of the High Republic storytelling initiative, Claudia Gray's The Fallen Star. The era kicked off a year ago with Charles Soule's Light of the Jedi, a triumphant [...]
The Book of Boba Fett stars Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett and Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand, both of whom are reprising their roles from previous Star Wars projects. Morrison was originally cast in Attack of the Clones as Jango Fett, the father of Boba. Jango serves as the template for the Republic's clone troopers, [...]
We're nearing the end of the first phase of The High Republic, a massive publishing initiative spanning books and comics (and also a few games). The brand-new era launched in January 2021 and is reaching the end of its first phase a little over a year later. There are three phases in total in the [...]
The first two episodes of The Book of Boba Fett have featured several exciting cameos for Star Wars fans, from Max Rebo to Black Krrsantan. And these are cameos done really well, since casual audiences don't need to know anything about them to follow the story, while the fans that follow those things are rewarded. [...]
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