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io9ComicsMarvel
Admiral Ackbar Has a Son, and He Could End Up in The Rise of Skywalker
The Last Jedi may have brought an end to Admiral Ackbar, but this is Star Wars. And what is Star Wars if not story of multi-generational legacies, of children taking up the fights of their parents? Last night StarWars.com gave us our first look at Star Wars: Allegiance #2, next week’s entry in the newly-begun … Continued
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io9BooksStar Wars
So Many Goddamn Star Wars Books and Comics Just Got Announced at New York Comic Con
The Skywalker Saga might be coming to an end on the big screen this December, but at New York Comic Con today, the galaxy far, far away seemed more alive than ever. That is, if you need a hefty to-read pile to build up. The Lucasfilm Publishing panel at NYCC didn’t just start off with … Continued
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io9Toys and Collectibles
Star Wars and Force Friday Are Invading New York Comic Con Too
Friday’s mega release of all the new merchandise for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker won’t be limited to retail locations. In fact, it’s happening at New York Comic Con too, as Bottleneck Gallery and Acme Archives will have a brand new, limited edition art print based on the upcoming film. Oh, and they’ll also … Continued
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io9Animation
How Star Wars Resistance‘s Final Season Builds Up to The Rise of Skywalker
When Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters this December, the galaxy will be much different. The Last Jedi showed the Resistance getting crushed, the First Order gaining a new leader, and now only one show will be able to bridge the gap between the two movies. That show is Star Wars Resistance, which … Continued
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Explores Kylo’s ‘Nakedness’ With Rey
The door isn’t totally closed, folks. Rey may have physically and metaphorically cut herself off from Kylo Ren at the end of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but further developing their “complicated relationship” is still a big part of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. In an interview with Empire, The Rise of Skywalker co-writer … Continued
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io9Animation
Star Wars Has Been Hiding a Gay Couple in Plain Sight
A lot of fans have been waiting for different forms of representation in Star Wars for a long, long time and, it turns out, at least one has already been there for a little while. Speaking to the Coffee With Kenobi podcast, the executive producers of Star Wars Resistance confirmed that Orka and Flix—voiced by … Continued
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io9MoviesStar Wars
A New Magazine Feature Gives Us Our Best Look Yet at the Knights of Ren
Kylo Ren has a crew, and they have a very exacting dress code. For years, we’ve been dealing with the teased non-presence of the Knights of Ren, Ben Solo’s super baddy posse, possibly former Jedi trainees, who are known by reputation in the realm of the new Star Wars trilogy and not much else. Rian … Continued
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io9Sci-Fi
Dave Filoni Talks the Challenge of Working on The Mandalorian
It’s only a couple months now until The Mandalorian launches on Disney Plus, and to whet our appetites for morally ambiguous space fantasy action we’ve got even more details to go through. In a lengthy report by IGN, Dave Filoni talks the challenge of directing and executive producing The Mandalorian, his first live-action work, and … Continued
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Director Deborah Chow and Writer Hossein Amini Join Obi-Wan Kenobi Series for Disney+
A month after that much-anticipated announcement that Ewan McGregor would be reprising his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi—not in a film, but in a series for streamer Disney+—the project has a director, and the studio didn’t have to look far to find her: it’s Deborah Chow, whose credits include The Mandalorian. The Hollywood Reporter’s scoop says … Continued
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All the Glorious New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Toys (and More) Revealed for Force Friday
Next week is perhaps the most important date in a Star Wars fan’s calendar this year outside, of, well, you know…December 20, 2019. Because who wants to just see a new Star Wars movie when you can buy all the toys from it months in advance, too? That’s what you’ll be doing for “Triple Force … Continued
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io9MoviesStar Wars
Meet 2 Mysterious New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Creatures
When Lucasfilm wanted to reveal new characters like Zorri Bliss or Jannah from Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker, we saw their images in the pages of Vanity Fair. Today, two more new characters got their big, albeit slightly less regal, reveals as toys on a YouTube livestream. Those characters are aliens by the names … Continued
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io9Trailer Frenzy
In the New Jedi: Fallen Order Trailer, the Fire of the Jedi Flickers Once More
Order 66 was never really shown to be a particularly efficient order in the Star Wars galaxy. Rogue Jedi who survived the purge crop up enough that you begin to wonder if Clone Troopers were ever more accurate in their blaster fire than their Stormtrooper descendants. But that’s not going to stop young Cal Kestis … Continued
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Darth Vader Faces a Four-Armed Rancor in the New Vader Immortal Episode II Trailer
I mean, you also get to wield the Force in VR and that’s pretty cool, but let’s rewind a touch: Four. Armed. Rancor. Announced today as part of Facebook’s massive Oculus Connect event, the second chapter of ILMxLab’s Vader Immortal VR game series is now available on both the Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift VR … Continued
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io9Games
The Star Wars Galaxy Needs More Kyle Katarns
This week, one of the best Star Wars games ever made, Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, made a surprise arrival on modern consoles. It’s peculiar, because it’s a rare official recognition of a Star Wars timeline that no longer canonically exists. But it’s a peculiarity that can only be matched by Jedi Outcast’s hero himself: … Continued
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io9Sci-Fi
Of Course The Mandalorian Is Interested in What the Expanded Universe Could Add Back to Star Wars Canon
Ever since Disney and Lucasfilm rehauled the Star Wars canon in the wake of the former’s acquisition of the latter, the Expanded Universe, a vault of Star Wars storytelling for decades, was reclassified as mythological “legend,” non-canonical tales of a bygone age. But that doesn’t mean it’s gone for good, and the people behind The … Continued
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io9MoviesStar Wars
10 Silly Theories That Could Explain Dark Rey in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
It was two seconds that launched two billion theories. We’re talking, of course, of the brief glimpse of “Dark Rey” from last month’s new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker footage. Seeing the trilogy’s hero wearing the black hood of the dark side, wielding a double red lightsaber, was shocking and mysterious. What could it … Continued
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io9Movies
Star Wars Wings, Ranked
Star Wars, at its core, is a very silly franchise. A delightfully silly one, more often than not, fascinated with minutiae and over-explanation in few ways other sagas would be. But one of my favorite, most enduring silly facts about it is the galaxy far, far away’s fascination with starfighters named exclusively after an alphabet … Continued
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This Fan Trailer Imagines the Ahsoka Tano Movie Star Wars Fans Still Need
Ahsoka Tano, the breakout heroine of The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels, feels like she deserves a bigger spotlight. Even though she’s one of the most important characters in the episodic animated arm of the universe, her presence isn’t really strongly felt outside of it. Which is a shame. Creator Tim Gonzales, playing with … Continued
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io9ComicsMarvel
The Simple, Vital Role General Hux Has in Star Wars‘ First Order
As a shade of its forebearer, the First Order at times feels like an organization in search of an ideology beyond simply being the Empire all over again. In the past few weeks of Marvel’s Age of Resistance anthology comics, it’s been given a lens to examine some of the disparate parts that make up … Continued
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io9Sci-Fi
New Mandalorian Details Tease a Lawless Galaxy and Its Misfit ‘Heroes’
As a refreshing break from a tale of Jedi and Sith, of the endless battle between light and dark, The Mandalorian looks like a bit of space-Western manna from heaven when it comes to Star Wars storytelling. So you didn’t need to sell me even harder with the idea of Taika Waititi as an assassin … Continued