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Claudia Gray’s Star Wars: Bloodline to focus on Leia Organa

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USA Today has revealed the cover and first details about the upcoming Star Wars: Bloodline, the new novel from Star Wars: Lost Stars author Claudia Gray. Bloodline will take place prior to the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and focusses on Leia Organa, “who is professionally at a good place, as a senator and […]

Marvel to answer burning question from Star Wars: The Force Awakens with Star Wars Special: C-3PO #1

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This March, Marvel is set to answer the burning question from Star Wars: The Force Awakens… no, not the identity of Rey’s parents, but rather how did C-3PO get his red arm! Here’s a teaser image for the one-shot Star Wars Special: C-3PO #1… SEE ALSO: Follow all of our Star Wars coverage here Star […]

Star Wars: Episode VIII script out to the cast

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Last week, it was announced that Star Wars: Episode VIII has been pushed back to December 15th 2017, with rumours suggesting the delay was to allow for rewrites to the script to increase the focus on Star Wars: The Force Awakens favourites Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron and Kylo Ren. Well, those rumours were either wide […]

Ewan McGregor discusses his Star Wars: The Force Awakens cameo

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As well as bringing back many of our favourite characters from the Original Trilogy, Star Wars: The Force Awakens also featured one notable Prequel Trilogy cameo, with Ewan McGregor returning to record a line of dialogue as Obi-Wan Kenobi during Rey’s (Daisy Ridley) vision sequence on Takodana. Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel, McGregor spoke about his […]

Video Game Review – Star Wars Pinball: The Force Awakens

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Scott Watson reviews Star Wars Pinball: The Force Awakens… You’ve all seen that new Star Wars movie right? It feels like everyone on the planet has or almost everyone has. I certainly have, twice so far. So, with great vigor and much enthusiasm, I attacked Zen Studios release of two new virtual pinball tables in […]

Rumour: Star Wars: Episode VIII pushed back to re-write the script and focus on Rey, Finn, Kylo Ren and Poe Dameron

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Warning – spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens below… It was shockingly announced last night that Disney and Lucasfilm had made the decision to push back Star Wars: Episode VIII to December 15th, 2017 – which means we’re looking like we’re getting a new Star Wars movie every Christmas rather than being spread throughout […]

Kylo Ren is an Undercover Boss on Starkiller Base in Saturday Night Live sketch

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Over the weekend, Adam Driver hosted the latest episode of Saturday Night Live, during which he featured in a sketch where he revisited his Star Wars: The Force Awakens character Kylo Ren, as the Master of the Knights of Ren took part in Undercover Boss, posing as Matt the Radar Technician to find out how […]

Ride Along 2 races to top of US box office

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Buddy cop comedy Ride Along 2 has ended Star Wars‘ month-long dominance of the US box office. The sequel to the 2014 hit, with Kevin Hart and Ice Cube, raced to the top of the charts in its opening weekend. It knocked The Force Awakens into third place with a strong debut of $34 million. […]

Darth Vader will appear in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but it won’t be Hayden Christensen in the suit

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For the past year or so, there’s been rumour and speculation that Darth Vader is set to appear in the upcoming Star Wars anthology movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, with Hayden Christensen reportedly in training to reprise his role from the Prequel Trilogy. Given that the film takes place prior to A New […]