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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker book offers new look at a Knight of Ren

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Having briefly appeared in flashback form in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the Knights of Ren are set to make their return to the big screen this December in Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. We caught a glimpse of this mysterious group of villains with Vanity Fair’s first look images, and […]

Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures and Black Series Hasbro action figures unveiled at Comic-Con

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Hasbro has unveiled a selection of its latest Star Wars offerings at San Diego Comic-Con which includes Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures figures for Darth Vader, Han Solo, Chewbacca and C-3PO, a Black Series HyperReal Luke Skywalker and recently revealed Sith Trooper, and a Black Series Boba Fett premium electronic helmet; check out the promotional images […]

More spooky Star Wars tales coming this October with Return to Vader’s Castle

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Following on from last year’s successful weekly miniseries Star Wars Adventures: Tales from Vader’s Castle, IDW Publishing has announced that it will be serving up more spooky stories from the galaxy far, far away this October with Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader’s Castle, a five-issue miniseries from writer Cavan Scott (Star Wars Adventures).“I am […]

Daisy Ridley addresses “vicious” social media reactions to Star War: The Last Jedi

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Daisy Ridley, the star of the upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, has commented on the at time “vicious” responses to The Last Jedi on social media.Unfortunately, it seems to be a consistent theme these days that overzealous fans react in an aggressive manner online when a film or TV show doesn’t meet their […]

The Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker begins with Star Wars Adventures #27

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IDW Publishing has announced that it will be filling in some of the blanks between Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with a three-part story arc from writer John Barber and artist Derek Charm, which is set to get underway in October’s Star Wars Adventures #27.With the New Republic […]

Daisy Ridley teases “epic” lightsaber duel between Rey and Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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Daisy Ridley, who stars as Rey in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, has teased an “epic” lightsaber duel for the movie.There are certain things that fans demand from Star Wars and one of those things is an exciting lightsaber duel. With The Rise of Skywalker, fans should be satisfied as Daisy Ridley has promised […]

Rick Famuyiwa reportedly in talks to direct the Cassian Andor Star Wars series

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Having secured a showrunner back in December in Stephen Schiff (The Americans), it seems that Lucasfilm may now have found one of its directors for the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story prequel series focussing on Diego Luna’s Rebel spy Cassian Andor.According to a report from Discussing Film, Lucasfilm is in talks with Dope […]

Jon Favreau already working on season 2 of Star Wars series The Mandalorian

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Back in April, a rumour surfaced online suggesting that Disney+ had already renewed Lucasfilm’s upcoming live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian for a second season, and creator and executive producer Jon Favreau has seemingly confirmed that fact during a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.“We’re done with the first season and I’m actually writing part […]

Gina Carano explains how The Mandalorian and Jon Favreau have given her more confidence as an actress

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Gina Carano, former MMA fighter and one of the stars of The Mandalorian, has explained how an emotional interaction with Jon Favreau has given her new confidence.A number of people have made the transition from combat sports to Hollywood and Gina Carano is certainly someone who is doing it successfully. Next for her is the […]