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Comic Book Review – Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Shattered Empire #1

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Ricky Church reviews Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Shattered Empire #1… For the first time in the new Star Wars canon, journey with us into the time after the end of Return of the Jedi! Writer Greg Rucka (PUNISHER, WOLVERINE, Gotham Central) and artist Marco Checchetto (AVENGERS WORLD, PUNISHER) take us past […]

Rumour: Star Wars: Episode VIII to introduce new “strong, young female character”

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Between Daisy Ridley’s Rey and Gwendoline Christie’s Captain Phasma from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Felicity Jones’ as-yet-unreveald Rebel from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Disney has made a pretty good start when it comes to introducing more female characters to the galaxy far, far away. And, if a new rumour is to […]

Colin Trevorrow to shoot Star Wars: Episode IX on film… and in space?

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Although production is yet to get underway on Star Wars: Episode VIII – although the script is now out to the cast – Jurassic World helmer Colin Trevorrow is hard at work on development of the final chapter of Disney’s Sequel Trilogy. Speaking at a press conference at Sundance, the director revealed that he prefers […]

Sith Out of Luck: The Failure of ‘Force Friday’

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Anghus Houvouras on Force Friday… The minute I heard the words “Force Friday”, I knew we were in trouble. When I say ‘we’, I mean ‘society’. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is arriving in theaters this holiday season, and unlike the first film you will not have to wait months to get your hands on […]

Sony announces Darth Vader PlayStation 4 bundle, features four remastered classic Star Wars games

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Sony has announced that it is launching a special Star Wars PlayStation 4 bundle this November, which includes a Darth Vader-themed console and Dualshock 4 and either Star Wars: Battlefront Deluxe Edition or Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition. Furthermore, both bundles will come with a digital voucher to download four remasters titles in Super Star Wars, […]

ABC to air Star Wars Land preview hosted by Harrison Ford

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Last year during the D23 Expo it was announced that Disney is set to introduce Star Wars Land attractions at Disneyland Walt Disney World resorts, and now it has been announced that Harrison Ford will host a special preview of the attractions next month on ABC. SEE ALSO: The Attractions That Would Make Star Wars Land […]

Rumour: Felicity Jones’ character name revealed in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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Warning: possible spoilers below… Now that Star Wars: The Force Awakens is out of the way and dominating the global box office, it’s time for rumours and speculation about Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to begin. And it didn’t take long into 2016 for that to happen. According to Making Star Wars, Felicity Jones’ […]

Taron Egerton addresses young Han Solo rumours

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A few days ago, it was reported that Disney and Lucasfilm have whittled down the 2500-strong contenders for the role of the young Han Solo in the 2018 Star Wars Anthology movie to just three candidates: Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!), Jack Reynor (Transformers: Age of Extinction) and Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service). Appearing on The […]

Rumour: Felicity Jones’ Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One character the daughter of an iconic villain?

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As director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) begins production on the first Star Wars spinoff, a new rumour has emerged concerning the character set to be played by Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything) in Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One. The official announcement stated that Jones will be playing a Rebel soldier, and now notorious “scooper” El […]