When I was writing about the dumb controversy that has surfaced recently regarding the reality that Ahsoka Tano had more formal training than Luke Skywalker, my mind began to be pulled in other directions as well. In the Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian episode looking at the season two finale, Dave Filoni made a comment about [...]
The recent episode of Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian looked at how the showrunners behind the successful Star Wars live-action series brought Luke Skywalker into the season two finale. Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni spend a considerable amount of time talking about how they made this happen, as does director Peyton Reed and the incredible folks [...]
Long before the release of season two of The Mandalorian, quite a bit of casting news leaked. Timothy Olyphant was playing Cobb Vanth. Katee Sackhoff would be reprising her role of Bo-Katan Kryze. Boba Fett was back, played again by Temuera Morrison. And a fan-favorite would be making her live-action debut, as Ahsoka Tano would [...]
The latest episode of the behind-the-scenes series Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian dropped on Disney+ today, with the special episode titled, "Making of Season 2 Finale." And true to form, it focused exclusively on the finale - namely, the final few moments of it. That's when, to the thrilling surprise of Star Wars fans, Luke Skywalker [...]
Next week, a special episode of the Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian series is coming, looking at how the epic finale of season two was brought to life. Namely, at how Mark Hamill returned to the role of Luke Skywalker in a stunning cameo, as Luke arrived to save the day and rescue Grogu. The behind [...]
The seventh season of The Clone Wars was a triumphant return and finale of the beloved series, serving as the crowning achievement of Lucasfilm animation and the popular show. But it's also becoming more and more apparent that it's the direct predecessor to the latest animated Star Wars show, The Bad Batch. I remember all [...]
Dave Filoni was quietly promoted to Executive Creative Director at Lucasfilm last summer, a company rep confirmed to Variety. The Lucasfilm website was just updated this week with the new job title for Filoni, and he is now listed among the senior leadership for the entire company, on the level with studio vice presidents. And [...]
The Mandalorian has attracted incredible directing talent during its first two seasons, and it has proven to be an introduction to directing Star Wars for most of them. Outside of Dave Filoni, all of the directors have been newcomers to telling Star Wars stories at Lucasfilm when joining the show. But is it also possible [...]
By now it’s probably old news: a certain relatively small but vocal section of Star Wars fans no longer wants one of the most successful producers in movie history running the franchise. That was the case with George Lucas. It’s now the case with Kathleen Kennedy, who has been running the company since Lucas handed [...]
This year has certainly been a crazy one for everyone, that's for sure! And it also marked a notable change for Star Wars: it was the first year not to have a theatrically released film since 2014! But we still got a ton of content from a galaxy far, far away, including a couple of [...]
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