The Rise of Skywalker released early on digital home media, and with it came lots of bonus content! Most prominently was a feature-length documentary, The Skywalker Legacy, focusing on the making of the film, with a recognition of the saga that came before it. I am utterly fascinated by the making of Star Wars films [...]
Whenever a new Star Wars film is released, a Visual Dictionary by Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm story group is published. And I rarely say anything is a "must read," but these Visual Dictionaries fit the bill: they are always among my most anticipated Star Wars publications, and they provide a wealth of fun tidbits [...]
The Rise of Skywalker is out on digital NOW! Though originally scheduled to be released on March 17, in a surprise move the digital release date was moved up a couple of days, as the Coronavirus has forced people inside and closed many gatherings. Similarly, Disney moved up the release date for Frozen II on [...]
Rae Carson's novelization for The Rise of Skywalker officially releases on March 17, but parts of it have hit the internet early. Included in that was the big but not crazy reveal that Palpatine's spirit occupied a clone body in the film. That meant that there were two clones in the film (in Palpatine and [...]
The upcoming novelization for The Rise of Skywalker, written by Rae Carson, reveals that Palpatine's spirit lived on in a clone body. This gives a large part of the answer for how he returned, and the novelization makes it seem almost as if this clone body, which serves as the host for his spirit, can't [...]
One of the big questions that many people had after watching The Rise of Skywalker was this: how did Palpatine return? What we knew from the film is that Palpatine actually did die ("I have died before," he tells Kylo), and that Resistance historian Beaumont Kin mentions dark science and cloning as possibilities And so, [...]
The Rise of Skywalker paid tribute to Leia Organa in a really cool way, forever immortalizing her as a Force ghost, as she is now one with the Force - along with her brother, Luke Skywalker, and her son, Ben Solo. But we've actually seen Leia use the Force in all but one of her [...]
The Star Wars sequel trilogy concluded recently with The Rise of Skywalker, and I'm hoping that means that Lucasfilm will slowly but surely begin to fill in the gaps of the trilogy by more storytelling. None of this is a criticism of the way they've handled things, because of course there are going to be [...]
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 [...]
The Rise of Skywalker is coming home next month! It was announced by Star Wars on Wednesday that the final film in the Skywalker saga will release on March 17 digitally, and on March 31 in 4K Ultra HD, Blu-Ray, and DVD. Also releasing that day is The Skywalker Saga, a collection of the entire [...]
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