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Jon Favreau says The Mandalorian season 2 will premiere in Fall 2020

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Following hot on the heels of Friday’s season one finale, creator and showrunner Jon Favreau has taken to social media to announce that the second season of the live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian is set to arrive on Disney+ in the fall of 2020. SEE ALSO: Disney’s Bob Iger on The Mandalorian’s ‘Baby Yoda’, […]

Disney’s Bob Iger on The Mandalorian’s ‘Baby Yoda’, says Jon Favreau isn’t a fan of the moniker

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While Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has done little to repair the fractured Star Wars fanbase, it hasn’t all been bad news for the franchise lately as Disney and Lucasfilm’s live-action Disney+ series The Mandalorian has been earning rave reviews from both fans and critics alike. The show’s biggest success however seems to be […]

J.J. Abrams on leaving questions unanswered in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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Despite being billed as the final chapter of the 42-year-long Skywalker Saga, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker certainly left a number of questions unanswered – not least how Emperor Palpatine managed to survive (or return from) his ‘death’ in Return of the Jedi. While many of these will be answered in supplementary material such […]

The Mandalorian actor absolutely trashes Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and the Sequel Trilogy

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has been splitting fans, but The Mandalorian actor Jake Cannavale – who recently played the bounty hunter Toro Calican in the Disney+ series – certainly isn’t holding anything back when it comes to his opinion on the movie, describing it on Instagram as “an absolute fucking failure” and “worse […]

J.J. Abrams on retconning Rey’s lineage in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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The lineage of Daisy Ridley’s Rey was one of the big mysteries set up by J.J. Abrams in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, only for Rian Johnson to throw fans a curve ball in Star Wars: The Last Jedi by revealing that the aspiring Jedi’s parents were “nobodies” – filthy junk traders who sold her […]

The Star Wars Holiday Special continues to be a baffling, fascinating cultural relic

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To compliment the release of the “final” entry into the Skywalker Saga, Shaun Munro revisits the most infamous piece of Star Wars media in existence, 1978’s legendarily woeful Star Wars Holiday Special… While Star Wars fans routinely squabble over whether The Phantom Menace or The Last Jedi is the movie which sent the franchise irreversibly hurtling off […]

J.J. Abrams says fans and critics of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker are both right

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Unleashed into theaters around the globe this weekend, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has been met with mixed reviews and reactions from critics and fans alike, and while it hasn’t quite reached The Last Jedi-levels of divisiveness, it certainly hasn’t brought the fractured fan base back together in the way that Disney and Lucasfilm […]

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker opens below expectations with $373.5 million at the global box office

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Walt Disney Pictures brought the curtain down on the Skywalker Saga (and the most lucrative year for a single movie studio ever) this weekend with the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, with the J.J. Abrams-directed film opening below expectations with a still-impressive $373.5 million worldwide. Episode IX had been tracking a North […]

Rian Johnson defends his treatment of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (again)

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Over two years on from the film’s release, Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has once again spoken out on social media to defend his creative choices for the character of Luke Skywalker in the middle chapter of Disney’s Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. Responding to a tweet accusing him of “completely destroying the […]