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Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to make new series of Star Wars films

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It has certainly been a busy time for Star Wars fans with the recent release of The Last Jedi, the upcoming spin-off Solo: A Star Wars Story and the conclusion of the television series Star Wars Rebels later this month. There’s much more to look forward to, though, as Lucasfilm and Disney have announced a new series of Star Wars films will be coming […]

New Solo: A Star Wars Story character names have been revealed

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Some key new characters in Solo: A Star Wars Story have had their names revealed.The marketing campaign for Solo has at last got under way. First we had a TV spot on Super Bowl Sunday, and then the following day a teaser with even more footage of the new anthology film.Combining those with some character […]

Solo: A Star Wars Story character posters featuring Han, Chewie, Lando and Qi’Ra

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Following the first trailer [watch it here], Disney and Lucasfilm have released four new character posters for Solo: A Star Wars Story featuring Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich), Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), and Qi’Ra (Emilia Clarke); check them out here…SEE ALSO: First images from Solo: A Star Wars StoryBoard the Millennium Falcon and […]

Watch the official Solo: A Star Wars Story teaser trailer

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After the Super Bowl aired a brief TV spot for the next Star Wars spin-off Solo: A Star Wars Story, Good Morning America has now revealed the first full official teaser trailer for the film! Directed by Ron Howard, the film stars Alden Ehrenreich as everyone’s favourite smuggler as it traces his origin to become one […]

Is the future of film original screenplays or franchise continuations?

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George Chrysostomou on original screenplays vs. franchises…After watching Edgar Wright’s critically and commercially successful Baby Driver, it struck me that this was the first movie I had watched in a while that was not only imaginative and unique, but was not based on any source material such as a novel or comic series, not a sequel […]

Solo: A Star Wars Story Super Bowl teaser finally gives us a glimpse at the spin-off

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Finally, after production turmoil that would take up a Star Wars opening credits-sized scrawl of text, we get a glimpse at Solo: A Star Wars Story via this Super Bowl TV spot. Even more promising is the tease that we’ll get the full trailer tomorrow!There’s not much to go on, but we do get glimpses […]

Rian Johnson explains his reasoning behind Rey’s parents reveal in Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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Assuming Kylo Ren was telling the truth, we finally got an answer to one of Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ biggest mysteries this past December in Star Wars: The Last Jedi with the reveal about Rey’s parents. Rather than having the character be the offspring of Luke Skywalker, or Obi-Wan Kenobi, or Emperor Palpatine, or any […]

EA provides an update on future Star Wars video game plans

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During Electronic Arts’ latest investor earnings call, EA executives Blake Jorgensen and Andrew Wilson have been chatting about the publisher’s Star Wars video game license, giving us an indication as to its future plans.“[We’ve] not announced our products for fiscal year 2020 yet,” said Jorgensen, before revealing that Respawn’s as-yet-unrevealed action title will “most likely […]

Lucasfilm says more Star Wars Legends characters joining official canon soon

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Back in 2014, following its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company, Lucasfilm announced that it was erasing the Star Wars Expanded Universe, rebranding the line as ‘Legends’ and cutting it from the official Star Wars canon, which consisted at that point of the original six movies and the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series.While […]