Star Wars News

[Frontier]

Empire magazine teasing some possible SW project with the Long ago in a galaxy far, far away font and the Obi-Wan catchphrase "Hello there":

https://twitter.com/empiremagazine/s...22563923857769

Kenobi season 2 seems the most obvious thing, but it could be something else, maybe a full movie like they seem to be doing with Mandalorian and Thrawn, or a first look at the Rey film that's supposed to start production fairly soon.

I'd really have to side-eye Kenobi season 2.

I hope if they do anything more it's with a complete staff change.

[Tofali]

If there is going to be a Kenobi season 2 then they have to explore stories about Obi-Wan and force ghost Qui-Gon, Quinlan Vos and the path and Darth Vader chasing them across the galaxy (It's doable for a fast paced 6 episodes lol)

[Deathstroke]

Billy Dee Williams has a memoir coming out. Here's an interview with him.

[ChrisIII]

Cool new pic of Ian from the Empire prequel retrospective.

[Tofali]

Ian McDiarmid Defends Palpatine’s Return In Rise Of Skywalker: ‘He Always Had A Plan B’ – Exclusive

"A lot of people said it was ridiculous,” he says. “Of course, he was dead at the end of Return Of The Jedi! And frankly, I think George thought he’d killed me too. But J.J. thought it would be a good idea – I wasn’t going to argue with him.” Still, if there’s anyone who might be able to pull off a return from beyond the grave, it might just be Palpatine. “I felt that Palpatine always had a plan B – probably a plan C, D, E, and F as well,” McDiarmid reasons. “And he was an expert in cloning, so…

Just, don’t take the existence of Daisy Ridley’s Rey – revealed to be Palpatine’s granddaughter in The Rise Of Skywalker – as proof that the Emperor liked to… well… do it. “Please don’t pursue that line too vigorously,” says McDiarmid. “But yes, he does [have sex]. It’s a horrible idea to think of Palpatine having sex in any shape or form. But then, of course, perhaps he didn’t.” (Canonically, Rey’s father Dathan was a failed ‘strand-cast’ clone of the Emperor, rather than a genetic offspring.) “Maybe it’s all to do with midi-chlorians – and don’t ask me what those are,” McDiarmid continues. “Never trust your granddaughter. That’s the T-shirt Palpatine got made. Shortly after his death.” The Palpatine family reunion is sure to be an awkward one.

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/...ker-exclusive/

[Bruce Wayne]

The problem is that the execution was horrible. Frankly Dark Empire (the first one) did it better and had a better story.

And I frankly liked the idea of Palpatine as her grandfather. It's just that the execution for the entire movie was lacking. They absolutely need two movies to build up to this and they didn't have it since that wasn't their original plan and only occurred after Rian killed off Snoke.

[ChrisIII]

A lot of DE's strength was also showing Leia grow as a Jedi.

One great bit is her giving Palpatine the death glare and breaking his bed when he threatens the unborn Anakin.



Granted, like the movies the novels largely ditched that storyline with her becoming a politician/rebel leader again, not really fully doing the Jedi stuff again until the Legacy novels.

[ChrisIII]

Maybe a bit OT but Gareth Edwards (Rogue One) is directing the next Jurassic Park/World.

[Tofali]

Harrison Ford left Star Wars A New Hope script in a London flat – now it’s been sold for thousands


https://www.nme.com/news/film/harris...usands-3591538

[Tofali]

'The Acolyte' Has a Tentative Release Date [Exclusive]

Following our report that the upcoming Star Wars series, The Acolyte, would be launching this summer, Collider has learned The Acolyte is currently slated to debut on Disney+ on June 5, 2024. Disney's representatives did not deny or confirm our reporting when reached for comment.

https://collider.com/the-acolyte-release-date/

[ChrisIII]

They're updating Star Tours with the Disney+ characters.

https://www.starwars.com/news/star-tours-ahsoka-tano

They usually do this with the current Star Wars thing, I think 2015 it was Finn on Jakku, 2019 had Lando ask for help on Exegol etc. not sure about the other ones.

[ChrisIII]

Angela Bassett might be cast as the villain in the Rey film.

While the animation Disney+ stuff and EU has had some pretty good female villains there's never been one in the films apart from henchmen who didn't show up for long (Zam) or wasted ones like Phasma.

https://www.cbr.com/daisy-ridley-new...Pb3ZP-X5eOkzCE

[ChrisIII]

There's been the Cerveza crystal discovery/ meme.....

https://kotaku.com/star-wars-beer-ad...wan-1851312591

Which of course kind of overshadowed somebody spotting an interesting bluescreen blooper in ROTS:


https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/co...racter_during/

[Gaastra]

https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/c...eached_a_deal/

"Patty Jenkins revealed that she reached a deal with Lucasfilm to return directing/writing ‘STAR WARS: ROGUE SQUADRON’"