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J.J. Abrams offers up some details on Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Kylo Ren

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Earlier today Entertainment Weekly offered up some new images from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, including a couple of shots of Adam Driver’s lightsaber-weilding villain Kylo Ren. Now, speaking to the site, director J.J. Abrams has offered up a few intriguing details about the latest bad guy to menace the galaxy far, far away. “The […]

Rumour: Jiang Wen joins the cast of Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One

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Following the news that Donnie Yen has been cast in Star Wars: Episode VIII, we’ve got a new rumour for the Gareth Edwards directed spin-off Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One. According to Yahoo! Singapore, Chinese actor and director Jiang Wen has joined the cast. Wen is perhaps best known for his Let the Bullets Fly, […]

Disney’s Bob Iger plays down Star Wars: The Force Awakens box office predictions

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With various box office analysts suggesting that December’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens could cross the $2 billion mark at the worldwide box office, Disney’s CEO Bob Iger has tried to play down expectations for the first chapter of the studio’s Sequel Trilogy during a conference call with investors. “On the Star Wars front, we […]

The Week in Star Wars – Sherlock star joins Rogue One, Netflix rumours and a first look at Ken Leung in The Force Awakens

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This edition of The Week of Star Wars sees a Sherlock star joining the cast of Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One, some rumours surrounding a Netflix spin-off series and a first look at Ken Leung in Star Wars: The Force Awakens… Kicking things off this week, we got the news that Sherlock star Jonathan Aris […]

J.J. Abrams has toned down the Original Trilogy references in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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When J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan took over writing duties from Michael Arndt on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it was said that one of the reasons for the rewrite was that Abrams wanted to shift some of the focus back to the characters of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia, as opposed to […]

Gwendoline Christie’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens character revealed as Captain Phasma

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Following on from this morning’s new images of Adam Driver (Kylo Ren), Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron), Daisy Ridley (Rey), John Boyega (Finn) and Lupita Nyong’o (Maz Kanata), Vanity Fair has continued its Star Wars Day celebrations by releasing an official first-look image from Star Wars: The Force Awakens of Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie […]

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker novel confirms that Palpatine was a clone

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While Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker offered very little by way of an explanation for the return of Emperor Palpatine, thanks to the official novelization we have official in-canon confirmation that it wasn’t Old Palpy’s decaying corpse we saw in the movie, but rather a clone body inhabited by the spirit of the Sith […]

Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens with Star Wars: Aftermath

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Last week Lucasfilm teased its new publishing initiative Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens – which is set to bridge the gap between Return of the Jedi and Episode VII – by releasing a promo image for the Marvel Comics series Shattered Empire, and now the official Star Wars site has debuted the cover […]