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New images from Solo: A Star Wars Story featuring Han, Chewie, Lando, Qi’Ra and more

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Following Monday’s trailer [watch it here], Entertainment Weekly has revealed a batch of new images from Ron Howard’s Star Wars anthology movie, Solo: A Star Wars Story which gives us a new look at Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich), Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), Qi’Ra (Emilia Clarke), and Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson); check them […]

Chewbacca’s death may have helped Lucasfilm decide to clear the Expanded Universe from Star Wars canon

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Lucasfilm may have been helped along in their decision to delete the Expanded Universe from Star Wars canon by the death of Chewbacca. When Disney purchased Lucasfilm, along with Star Wars, it was revealed that they had cleared up the series’ canon considerably, announcing that the Expanded Universe would now become the non-canon entity known […]

SPOILERS: Rian Johnson on a certain Star Wars: The Last Jedi character using Force powers

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Warning: Spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi follow… One of the complaints that fans have levelled at Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi is General Leia’s use of Force powers in order to save herself during one of the movie’s many space battles. Chatting with EW, Rian Johnson himself took the time to […]

Rian Johnson discusses Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s big surprise cameo

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Warning: Spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi follow… Unless you’d been paying very close attention to all of the rumours during the film’s production – or you happened to be watching the UK chat show This Morning last week – chances are you got quite the surprise in the cinema during Star Wars: The […]

SPOILERS: Rian Johnson and Mark Hamill discuss Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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Warning. Major spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi follow… After making the briefest of appearances in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Mark Hamill returned to the galaxy far, far away this past weekend as fans finally got to catch up with Luke Skywalker post-Return of the Jedi in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. […]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s Rian Johnson “apologizes” for the Porgs

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Much like the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi and Jar Jar Binks in A Phantom Menace, Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s Porgs have been dividing fans ever since we got our first glimpse of the Ahch-To inhabitants in the film’s promotional material. And now with just hours to go until the hotly-anticipated film begins […]

Mark Hamill created his own heartbreaking backstory for Luke Skywalker between Return of the Jedi and The Last Jedi

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It seems that going into Star Wars: The Last Jedi, actor Mark Hamill had as much knowledge about Luke Skywalker’s life between Return of the Jedi and the new Sequel Trilogy as the audience – i.e. very little. And so, in preparation for his performance in Episode VIII, Hamill concocted his own tragic and heartbreaking […]

We almost saw a blind Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, reveals Rian Johnson

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Bringing back an iconic character like Luke Skywalker for Star Wars: The Last Jedi must have been an incredibly daunting task for director Rian Johnson. Where do you take a character that has such a staggering legion of fans? Any hard-coated choice for the character could potentially alienate a huge group of fans. With that […]