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The original plot of Star Wars: The Force Awakens featured the search for Darth Vader and the second Death Star

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Warning: there are some minor spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens in this post… There was quite a lot of speculation after the announcement of a new Star Wars trilogy about what the plot of Episode VII would be. As it turns out, a lot of them were wrong. But original screenwriter Michael Ardnt […]

Domhnall Gleeson playing General Hux in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Simon Pegg confirmed to appear as an alien

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The Star Wars: The Force Awakens panel is taking place at this very moment in Hall H of the San Diego Comic-Con International, during which it has been confirmed that Simon Pegg will appear in the film as an alien creature, while Domhnall Gleeson’s character has been introduced as General Hux, who is in charge […]

Gugu Mbatha-Raw joins the cast of Star Wars: Episode VIII

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Last week it was rumoured that Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Doctor Who) had joined the shortlist of female actors in contention for the lead in Star Wars: Episode VIII, and now it looks like she’s won the part. According to Collider (who are backing up Latino Review’s original claim), Mbatha-Raw has been cast in Rian Johnson’s Star […]

Official synopsis for Marvel’s Star Wars: Journey to The Force Awakens – Shattered Empire

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Marvel Comics has released an official synopsis for its upcoming limited series Star Wars: Journey to The Force Awakens – Shattered Empire, which is set to bridge the gap between Return of the Jedi and December’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Emperor Palpatine’s twenty-year reign of terror came to an abrupt and fiery end in […]

Five Film Franchises on the Fence

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Anghus Houvouras with five film franchises on the fence… In part one, we examined the worst film franchises passing through Hollywood like kidney stones wrapped in barbed wire. As we continue to look at examine the current state of film franchises that Hollywood has to offer, it felt like there were some that were neither […]

Colin Trevorrow wants to build “a body of work” before being considered for a Star Wars movie

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When Colin Trevorrow’s debut feature film Safety Not Guaranteed starring Mark Duplass and Aubrey Plaza hit in 2012 the rest of Hollywood stood up and took notice that Trevorrow would be one to look out for in the next few years. Almost immediately he was being linked with directing Star Wars: Episode VII – which […]

Marvel’s Star Wars #6 introduces a huge change to the Star Wars canon

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Warning. Spoilers follow… Back in April 2014, Disney announced that it was introducing a new canon for Star Wars, which would consist of the original six movies, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and all subsequent Lucasfilm releases going forward. Not just movies and animated series, but books, comics, video games and so on. With that […]

Star Wars convention ‘For the Love of the Force’ heading to Manchester this December

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Just two weeks before the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, UK fans will be able to celebrate the epic space saga with ‘For the Love of the Force’, a Star Wars convention held at Bowlers Exhibition Centre between December 4th and December 6th. In addition to guests such as Darth Vader himself, Dave […]

Andy Serkis playing Supreme Leader Snoke of the First Order in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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For months, one of the mystery roles in Star Wars: The Force Awakens has revolved around Andy Serkis. Who exactly he would be playing and would he once again don a motion capture suit has been a question on everyone’s mind. After the first trailer was released last December it was revealed the dialogue spoken […]