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Lucasfilm officially dubs Anakin’s lightsaber as Rey’s from Star Wars: The Last Jedi onward

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Although most of us Star Wars fans have been referring to the historic lightsaber as Anakin’s / Luke’s even when in Rey’s possession in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Lucasfilm is now officially giving full ownership of the weapon to the Sequel Trilogy’s heroine. The change begins with Star Wars: The Last Jedi, as the […]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi images, The Flash script update, Justice League Dark loses another director and more – Daily News Roundup

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THE LAST JEDI, THE FIRST IMAGESThe title of the movie might be Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but we’ve now got our first official look at the cast via Vanity Fair. Included in the images are our first look at Laura Dern’s Vice Admiral Holdo and Benicio Del Toro’s ‘shady character’, who is apparently unnamed in […]

Star Wars: Forces of Destiny ‘Ewok Escape’ arrives online, watch it here

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After two adventures with Rey and BB-8 from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Disney and Lucasfilm have turned their attention to the Original Trilogy for the latest episode of Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, as Leia and Wicket tangle with a pair of Imperial Stormtroopers on the Forest Moon of Endor. Take a look at […]

Watch Star Wars: Forces of Destiny – ‘BB-8 Bandits’

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Disney and Lucasfilm have released the second episode of the new animated series Star Wars: Forces of Destiny. Entitled ‘BB-8 Bandits’, the short sees Rey and BB-8 being pursued by scavangers looking to steal the droid; check it out below and watch the first episode ‘Sands of Jakku’ here…The first eight episodes of Star Wars: […]

Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley and Rian Johnson discuss Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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Much of Star Wars: The Last Jedi will reportedly focus on the relationship between Luke Skywalker and Rey, although as suggested in the trailer, it doesn’t seem like this is going to be quite the relationship that Rey expected when she travelled to Ahch-To to meet her hero at the end of Star Wars: The […]

Colin Trevorrow on the downside of directing Star Wars: Episode IX

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While getting the chance to direct a Star Wars movie seems like it would be the opportunity of the lifetime (assuming you don’t decide to go off script and make a comedy, of course), filmmaker Colin Trevorrow has revealed that there is one major drawback – you lose the experience of seeing a new Star […]

Critical Thinking: Don’t Believe the Hype

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Anghus Houvouras on hype and hyperbole…Hype is something every film writer constantly struggles with. The perpetual entertainment news cycle gives film fans so much to chew on. There’s a formulaic cycle of hype that happens with every new movie that strokes the cockles of film fans. Some movies come with preordained hype. A new Star […]

Watch the first episode of Star Wars: Forces of Destiny – ‘Sands of Jakku’

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Disney and Lucasfilm have released the first episode of Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, the new animated series focussing on the female heroes of the galaxy far, far away. In the episode, titled ‘Sands of Jakku’, Rey (voiced by Daisy Ridley) and BB-8 find themselves pursued by a hungry Night Watcher worm; check it out […]

Directorial Vision vs Crowd Pleasing

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Tom Jolliffe on directorial vision vs crowd pleasing… We’ve all done it in our lives. The crowd leans a certain way and we adhere to that. Maybe it was in school. Oasis vs Blur (yes, I’m old). The consensus is Oasis, so you put Oasis in your tape deck to please everyone. Secretly though you’re […]