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Lucasfilm reportedly considered adapting fan favourite Star Wars Legends story for Boba Fett film

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While there’s been a lot of rumours circulating about the future of Lucasfilm’s Star Wars Anthology movies following the disappointing box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story, all signs seem to suggest that the studio still intends on moving forward with its Obi-Wan Kenobi and Boba Fett projects.With regards to the latter, we […]

First character art from Dave Filoni’s Star Wars Resistance revealed

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Back in April, Disney and Lucasfilm officially announced the upcoming anime-inspired series Star Wars Resistance from Dave Filoni, creator of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, and now we have our first glimpse at some character artwork.Showcased at the Rendez-vous Des Partenaires 2018 event in France, the character art includes our new lead, […]

The Most Disappointing: Blaming Star Wars Fans for Disney’s Failures

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Anghus Houvouras on Disney’s Star Wars…The Star Wars franchise is FUBAR. A mess that continues to get messier. Like a wedding dress stained with red wine that someone tries to clean using a mop that’s been soaking in a bucket of hot dog water.I’ve written, at length, about how the Star Wars franchise has found […]

Keri Russell in talks for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode IX

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We may have our next piece of official news regarding Star Wars: Episode IX as Variety reports Keri Russell (The Americans) has begun early talks to join the film.Fresh off the ending of The Americans, Russell will potentially join the galaxy far, far away and re-team with Episode IX director J.J. Abrams. The pair have worked together in the […]

Boba Fett director James Mangold warns that Star wars fan backlash will result in films directed by “hacks”

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Director of Lucasfilm’s planned Boba Fett movie, James Mangold, has warned fans that backlash might result in films being directed by “hacks”.There’s been plenty of noise surrounding the fan anger and backlash directed towards Star Wars movies of late and this week James Gunn even encouraged toxic Star Wars fans to seek therapy.James Mangold, who […]

James Gunn suggests that angry Star Wars fans seek therapy

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James Gunn has suggested that therapy might be a good solution for the toxic portion of the Star Wars fan-base.We are hearing more and more about the way in which some members of the Star Wars fandom have been treating individuals associated with the films, especially in the aftermath of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.We […]

Jar Jar Binks actor was suicidal after Star Wars backlash

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Ahmed Best, the actor who portrayed Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequels, has revealed that he became suicidal after backlash towards his character.News regarding fan and media backlash pertaining to Star Wars has been quite prevalent of late and its certainly creating a discussion about when criticism goes too far.One actor that certainly […]

Can We Stop Saying The Last Jedi is ‘too different’ from Star Wars canon?

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the continuing impact of The Last Jedi and the false notion that it’s too different from Star Wars canon… So here we are. 7 months on and I still see, on a daily basis, and with my phone, social media profiles all recommending I click on articles about how divisive The […]

Boycotting films is not only pointless, but hurtful to the franchise

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Ricky Church on boycotting movies…Since the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi in December, Star Wars fandom has been divided to say the least. Some ‘fans’ who hated The Last Jedi have been extremely vocal in their utter hatred of the film, going so far as to demand Lucasfilm and Disney retcon it from […]