Given the name-dropping of Grand Admiral Thrawn in ‘The Jedi’ episode of The Mandalorian season two, fans of the animated series Star Wars Rebels likely have a pretty good idea which direction the story is heading with Disney and Lucasfilm’s live-action Star Wars: Ahsoka spinoff. The expectations are that the series will see Rosario Dawson’s […]
IDW announces Star Wars Adventures: Weapon of a Jedi
As part of its May solicitations, IDW Publishing has announced an upcoming two-part comic book adaptation of Jason Fry’s critically acclaimed junior novel The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure. The Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Empire’s dreaded Death Star, but the Imperial starfleet continues hunting the rebels throughout the galaxy. Luke Skywalker […]
Star Wars Rebels: An Overlooked But Essential Part of the Franchise
Chris Connor on Star Wars Rebels… Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012 opened up a wealth of opportunities to expand the Star Wars universe. We have since seen five movies and the live action TV series The Mandalorian, the majority of which have pleased fans with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and The Mandalorian […]
Star Wars: Hunters to bring free-to-play arena combat to Nintendo Switch and mobile
Lucasfilm Games and FarmVille developer Zynga have announced that they are teaming up to bring competitive arena combat to Nintendo Switch and mobile devices with Star Wars: Hunters, a new free-to-download game which promises to “bring players together to engage in thrilling, team-based, multiplayer battles featuring a diverse array of distinctive new Star Wars characters.” […]
Film Through the Years Part 2 with Jim Bloom, Co-Producer on Star Wars: Return of the Jedi | The Writer Experience #133
Listen to the latest episode of The Writer Experience… Following on from last week’s episode, Court and Harry are joined once again by Jim Bloom, Associate Producer on Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back and Co-Producer on Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, for the concluding part of their […]
Gina Carano found out about her Star Wars firing from social media
Last week Disney announced that Gina Carano would no longer be appearing in The Mandalorian or any other Star Wars projects, the Mouse House taking action to fire the actress from her role as Cara Dune after social media posts from Carano which the studio described as “abhorrent and unacceptable”. The news wasn’t entirely unexpected, […]
Giveaway – Win a year’s subscription to Star Wars Insider to celebrate issue #200 – NOW CLOSED
To celebrate the release of the 200th issue of Star Wars Insider, we’ve teamed up with Titan to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a fantastic bundle which includes a year’s subscription to the magazine, a copy of issue #200, along with a selection of Star Wars books! To celebrate 200 issues of […]
Boba Fett to wage the War of the Bounty Hunters in new Star Wars event
Having made his grand return to the galaxy far, far away in the second season of The Mandalorian, Boba Fett is now set to take centre stage in Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters, a new comic book event from writer Charles Soule (Star Wars: The High Republic) running from May through to October. […]
Rian Johnson’s Star Wars trilogy is still happening
With The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, The Book of Boba Fett, Andor, Rangers of the New Republic, Lando, The Acolyte, Ewan McGregor in heavy beard-grooming prep for Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Patty Jenkins directed Rogue Squadron movie, and solo-projects from both Kevin Feige and Taika Waititi, you could be forgiven for forgetting that somewhere among this crawl there […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Imperial Assault Tank Commander Hot Toys figure revealed
Sideshow Collectibles has revealed Hot Toys’ 1:6 scale Movie Masterpiece Series Assault Tank Commander figure from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story which is available to pre-order now, priced at $230; check out the promotional images below… Sideshow and Hot Toys present Assault Tank Commander Sixth Scale Collectible Figure from Rogue One: A Star Wars […]