Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) do incredible visual effects work on Star Wars and other franchises, and that was certainly the case in The Rise of Skywalker. Recently, ILM released a video detailing some of their work on the film, and it's a fascinating look at the process. We get a chance to see a [...]
For the last several years, the main Star Wars comic line has been filling in the time between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. This January, however, it rebooted by beginning to explore the period in-between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. In the first issue, written by Charles Soule [...]
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 [...]
The four-issue comic Star Wars Allegiance that came out this fall as part of the Journey to The Rise of Skywalker was a bit disappointing, as it didn't give us quite as much insight into the post-The Last Jedi world as it was presumed to and remained fairly bland. But there was something pretty cool [...]
Now that the sequel trilogy has concluded, we're finally getting a lot more clarity as to the timeline of what was happening in-between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, particularly as it pertains to the events and characters of the sequel trilogy. Thankfully, Pablo Hidalgo's Visual Dictionary for The Rise of Skywalker places [...]
****This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker**** In The Rise of Skywalker, director J.J. Abrams decided to give further backstory to Rey's family. This led to the major reveal that Rey is actually a Palpatine, the granddaughter of the feared Emperor. When Rey and Luke Skywalker talk on Ahch-To, it [...]
****This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker**** The Rise of Skywalker gave us one last chance to see Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa, and it was beautiful. But there was one thing in particular that was a pretty major reveal: Leia actually trained as a Jedi briefly under Luke [...]
****This article contains major spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker**** The Rise of Skywalker recently released, and the late Carrie Fisher reprised her role as General Leia Organa one last time, thanks to previously unused footage and the wonders of ILM. J.J. Abrams has previously called Leia "the heart of this story", and in [...]
There are a ton of TV spots for The Rise of Skywalker that have been released, and I've been trying to keep up with them all. Thankfully, Star Wars has been officially releasing a lot of them, which makes it easy, but they haven't officially released all of them online. But Zcure1 on Twitter has [...]
Amazon recently released a special look at The Rise of Skywalker, and the video takes a look back at the saga from a behind-the-scenes perspective. There are interviews with J.J. Abrams, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac, and these include interviews both old and new. The video is intended to [...]
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