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Studio Ghibli teases mystery collaboration with Lucasfilm

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Well, here’s some potentially exciting news, as Studio Ghibli – the famed anime company co-founded by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Toshio Suziki – has taken to social media to tease a mystery collaboration with Lucasfilm, the home of the Star Wars saga. https://twitter.com/JP_GHIBLI/status/1590720957676949504 As yet, there’s no further indication as to what this collaboration […]

Dark Horse announces new Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures titles

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Having made its return to the galaxy far, far away with the all-ages Star Wars comic book publishing license, Dark Horse Comics is set to delve into the High Republic era with three new titles: the eight-issue Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures from writer Daniel Jose Older and artist Toni Bruno, the four-issue Star […]

Star Wars: Andor Episode 10 Review – ‘One Way Out’

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Chris Connor reviews the tenth episode of Star Wars: Andor… Andor has built a huge degree of tension and stakes through its episodic storytelling, allowing the various threads to intertwine and feel a key part of the series. Here in the tenth episode ‘One Way Out’, the thread of the past two episodes of the […]

Stranger Things’ Shawn Levy in talks to direct a Star Wars movie

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Following the recent small-screen success of Obi-Wan and Andor it appears Lucasfilm are expanding the four corners of their Star Wars galaxy back onto the big-screen once again with the news that Stranger Things and Deadpool 3 director Shawn Levy is in talks to direct his own Star Wars movie.  Deadline reports that Levy is in […]

When It’s Time to Let Go of Star Wars

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Tom Jolliffe on that fateful day when you realise Star Wars is no longer being made for you. Let go, you must… Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi has been and gone. Rather than roaring like a hungry Wampa, it meekly wheeled itself out like an R2 unit which can no longer beep and boop like it […]

Dafne Keen reportedly joins Star Wars: The Acolyte

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If the cast for Star Wars: The Acolyte wasn’t impressive enough already, it is being reported that Logan and His Dark Materials star Dafne Keen has joined the crew for Disney+’s upcoming live-action Star Wars series.  Production is currently underway in the United Kingdom on The Acolyte, which reportedly takes place approximately 100 years before […]

New Star Wars movie will be a standalone taking place after The Rise of Skywalker

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The other day news reached us from the farthest corners of the galaxy that Damon Lindelof was working on a brand new Star Wars film that would be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Ms. Marvel). Now, like the mists clearing over Planet Naboo, we have more details on who will be writing the film alongside Lindelof, […]

Ms Marvel’s Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to direct Damon Lindelof’s Star Wars movie

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So much of the recent Death Star style blue-print plans for the galaxy far far away have been focused on the small screen output, with the futures of Rian Johnson’s proposed trilogy, Taika Waititi’s solo-outing, a Kevin Feige-produced film and Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron all up in the air. Now you can add another Star […]

Did Lucasfilm block Marvel from announcing Harrison Ford’s MCU casting in Thunderbolts?

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If a new report is to be believed, it seems we would have seen Harrison Ford announced as entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe during Disney’s D23 Expo, only for one of Marvel’s fellow family members under the Disney umbrella to put a stop to it for now. During this last week, rumors began to swirl […]