While the scenes of Carrie Fisher’s performance as General Leia in The Rise of Skywalker were constructed using unused footage from The Force Awakens, writer Chris Terrio has revealed that the flashback sequence with Luke and Leia was crafted using footage from Return of the Jedi. “We also had access to the dailies from the Original Trilogy, and […]
Titan releases Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Official Collector’s Edition
Titan Comics takes us behind the scenes of Disney and Lucasfilm’s latest Star Wars blockbuster this week with the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Official Collector’s Edition, a 96-page hardcover special, which is available now priced $19.99/£15.99. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Official Collector’s Edition features a wealth of […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker passes $900 million at the global box office
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker continues its march towards the billion dollar mark at the global box office, with Disney and Lucasfilm’s blockbuster pushing its worldwide haul to $918.8 million after three weekends on screens. Rise of Skywalker managed to make it three in a row at the top of the North American box […]
2019 in Review: Revisiting cinema’s biggest releases, news and talking points
Tom Jolliffe looks back at 2019 in film… Whilst we all come to terms with deleting and retyping 19 as 20 on documents, letters, invoices etc, lets make time to look back at 2019 and further confuse matters. As a year of cinema, 2019 has been interesting and with a usual mix of pop culture […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker screenwriter confirms that The Emperor’s “body died in Return of the Jedi”
While Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker offered nothing in the way of an explanation as to how Emperor Palpatine managed to survive the events of Return of the Jedi, screenwriter Chris Terrio has now revealed to Awards Daily that the Sith Lord was indeed killed by Darth Vader aboard the Second Death Star – at […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker editor discusses the lack of romance between Poe and Finn
Upon the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, fans were speculating whether a romance would form between Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) and Finn (John Boyega) – although this ‘Stormpilot’ ship ultimately never played out on-screen. In a recent interview with HuffPost, editor Maryann Brandon discussed the scenes between Poe and Finn, to which she […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker writer reveals if Tatooine is Rey’s new home
Chris Terrio, the co-writer of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, has revealed if Tatooine is Rey’s new home planet. At the end of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, we see Rey heading to the former home of Luke Skywalker – Tatooine. Here, she buries the lightsabers that belonged to Luke and her other […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s Kelly Marie Tran on filming new Leia scenes
Kelly Marie Tran, an actress in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, has discussed the process around filming those new Leia scenes featuring the late Carrie Fisher. Now that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is out in cinemas, we have been able to see how J.J. Abrams was able to include Carrie Fisher’s character […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker writer hints that Leia and Force Ghost Luke discussed Rey’s ancestry after The Last Jedi
Chris Terrio, the writer of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, has hinted that Leia and force ghost Luke discussed Rey’s ancestry after The Last Jedi. One of the biggest reveals in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was that Rey is the granddaughter of Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine. We also see that Leia and Luke […]
There’s just one blockbuster to get excited for in 2020: The year of Tenet
Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to Tenet, and why it stands head and shoulders over every other tentpole release in 2020… With the Disney machine making record money this year even before they’d fired out Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to a public who seemed to go with a half-hearted, sleepwalking obligation over a fiery […]