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Star Wars star reveals Disney & Lucasfilm are consciously using new & returning character debuts to test the waters for solo shows
The Ahsoka series wouldn’t have happened if Rosario Dawson’s Mandalorian cameo wasn’t well received
December 17, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Harrison Ford endorses the next Indiana Jones actor to pick up the fedora and whip (well, the next *voice* actor)
At the Game Awards 2024, Harrison Ford praised Troy Baker, who plays the titular character in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. I guess you could say his performance... belongs in a museum
December 13, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
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Hayden Christensen opens up on the "massive impact" being welcomed back into the Star Wars franchise & fandom is
For Hayden Christensen, stepping back into Darth Vader’s boots was a dream come true.
December 13, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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The Andor saga ends with season 2 and Visions returns for season 3: Everything you can expect from Star Wars in 2025
More Star Wars is coming not so long from now, and not so far away, with Disney's and Lucasfilm's Andor season 2 and Visions season 3 coming 2025. We've got everything you need to know (including release dates) right here
December 12, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
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Hayden Christensen reveals the intense preparation that went into filming the iconic Star Wars: Episode III duel
The final showdown in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith took three months of training and two weeks of filming
December 09, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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When Kenobi met Skywalker: Ewan McGregor recalls his first meeting with Star Wars costar Hayden Christensen
From the very beginning, Ewan McGregor felt a brotherly bond with Hayden Christensen
December 06, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Bruised hands, busted knuckles, and memorable bonds: Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen reveal how they bonded on Star Wars sets
“We destroyed each other’s fingers,” Ewan McGregor admits
December 04, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
Skeleton Crew is cashing in on all your Star Wars nostalgia right from the start
With references to everything from the movies to the Star Wars Holiday Special, Skeleton Crew is the most nostalgic the franchise has ever been - and that is saying something.
December 04, 2024
Trent Cannon
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A Skeleton Crew easter egg hints at the most obscure piece of Star Wars history - the Star Wars Holiday Special
The hologram shows up in episode one of the Disney+ series and proves that more than four decades later Star Wars still can't escape the shadow of that weird night of television.
December 03, 2024
Trent Cannon
Features
Doesn't Star Wars: Skeleton Crew looks familiar? Star Trek did it three years earlier, with Prodigy... kind of
A group of dispirate kids lost in space after coming across a mysterious spaceship? Seen it back when it was on Paramount+ and Netflix and starring half the cast of Star Trek: Voyager
December 02, 2024
Graeme McMillan
News
Disney pulls Star Wars from its December 2026 theatrical slot
The untitled Star Wars movie intended for December 2026 has been replaced by... Ice Age 6?!?
November 16, 2024
Graeme McMillan
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Star Wars' Andor finale is circling back to finally give us the story of Yavin IV, the Rebel Base from the original movie
There's a deep backstory to the Yavin IV base in the original Star Wars film, and Andor seems to be finally getting into it
November 15, 2024
Chris Arrant
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Star Wars' Andor season 2 to show Cassian and K-2S0's first meeting, and possibly break official canon (but we're okay with that)
Cassian Andor and K-2S0 and their epic Star Wars meet/cute, take two.
November 15, 2024
Chris Arrant
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Star Wars' Rosario Dawson says that Anakin's treatment of Ahsoka Tano defined the character
Speaking at LA Comic Con, Star Wars actor Rosario Dawson got into her dynamic with Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker and explained how it represented a trait core to her character
November 14, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
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X-Men filmmaker Simon Kinberg to make new Star Wars trilogy for Lucasfilm
Yes, the man behind X-Men: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix is now writing and producing three new Star Wars movies
November 07, 2024
Graeme McMillan
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When does Star Wars: Skeleton Crew take place in the series timeline compared to other Disney+ shows?
The New Republic era is getting a more child-friendly entry this December.
November 06, 2024
Trent Cannon
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Star Wars' new series Skeleton Crew drops a new trailer that feels less Star Wars than usual
Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away, there's bad 1980s music and the Burbank suburbs, I guess
November 01, 2024
Graeme McMillan
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Star Wars' upcoming New Jedi Order film loses another screenwriter
Screenwriter Steven Knight has backed out of Star Wars' upcoming Rey movie, marking the second time that the film has changed screenwriters since its 2023 announcement
October 25, 2024
Jules Chin Greene
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At the Star Wars books panel, Marc Guggenheim brought NYCC news of his new Star Wars ongoing comic.Star Wars' new Marvel comic Jedi Knights is “like Marvel 2-in-1 with Jedi," says series writer
At the Star Wars books panel, Marc Guggenheim brought NYCC news of his new Star Wars ongoing comic, Jedi Knights.
October 21, 2024
Jim McDermott
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Jawas at the Javits - The Star Wars fan's guide to New York Comic Con 2024
Sure, New York Comic Con 2024 is happening at the Javits Center in Manhattan. But look for the right events and you'll find yourself in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
October 14, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
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The Mandalorian fight scene that Giancarlo Esposito helped choreograph
Speaking at LA Comic Con 2024, Giancarlo Esposito talked about one scene in which he got to decide how a scuffle with Cara Dune and Moff Gideon would go down
October 10, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
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Mark Hamill says he was paid $1000 a week during filming for the first Star Wars movie (and tells fans why he did it)
The force was with Luke Skywalker, even if he couldn’t afford power converters.
October 03, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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The real story on the Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman crossover with Star Wars that DC and Lucasfilm were cooking up (and why it didn't happen)
A former DC executive talks about a DC Comics and Star Wars crossover and what botched the deal.
September 30, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Here's what Star Wars creator George Lucas thought of Thrawn and Mara Jade, according to their creator Timothy Zahn
Did George Lucas like Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy?
September 27, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Want Star Wars to bring Mara Jade back into canon? So does her creator Timothy Zahn, but they keep telling him the same answer
Lucasfilm isn’t eager to bring Mara Jade back to Star Wars
September 26, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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James Earl Jones dies - the iconic Darth Vader, Mufasa voice actor was 93
James Earl Jones, whose voice was as powerful as the presence he commanded on screen, passed away in his home in Dutchess County, NY
September 09, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
Features
How Marvel & Lucasfilm make Star Wars comics, from an executive editor’s POV
Asked about the possibility of an Acolyte comic (no, there hasn’t been one announced), Marvel’s Tom Brevoort broke down the way comics get made for a Galaxy Far, Far Away
August 29, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
Features
The unanswered Star Wars questions left after Disney+ cancelation of The Acolyte season 2
The Star Wars show won't get a second season, leaving a lot of mysteries in a galaxy far, far away
August 22, 2024
Graeme McMillan
News
The Acolyte no more, as Disney+ cancels the latest live-action Star Wars show
Reports are emerging that Leslye Headland's Star Wars series will not get a second season
August 19, 2024
Graeme McMillan
News
Star Wars' Andor season 2 will bring back two more characters from Rogue One
It's time to bring on the bad guys in the second season of the Star Wars spin-off
August 10, 2024
Graeme McMillan
News
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew flies into its first trailer ahead of its December Disney+ debut
The new series set in a galaxy far, far away features an all-star director line-up behind the camera
August 10, 2024
Graeme McMillan
News
Star Wars has finally announced when its latest Disney+ show will arrive, in a surprisingly low-key manner
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew has a release date, but you might have missed that if you weren't paying attention
August 05, 2024
Graeme McMillan
News
Star Wars: The Acolyte's unlikely breakout star Yord is starring in his own "coming of age" style YA prose novel in 2025
Yord Horde, this one's for you.
July 26, 2024
Chris Arrant
News
Prepare to fear the Jedi, as Star Wars turns our favorite heroes dark for High Republic finale
Lucasfilm and Marvel are partnering for a 2025 event called Star Wars: The High Republic - Fear the Jedi.
July 26, 2024
Chris Arrant
News
Star Wars: The Acolyte prequel with Jedi masters Vernestra Rwoh and Indara coming in 2025 to bookstores
Being a Jedi isn't all cool lightsaber fights and Force tricks, as we saw in The Acolyte and now in its prequel, Star Wars: Wayseeker.
July 26, 2024
Chris Arrant
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The next Star Wars show Skeleton Crew is a Star Wars show for non-Star Wars fans (although you can enjoy it too!) says Jon Watts
Jon Watts wants Star Wars: Skeleton Crew to appeal to all viewers, whether they’re familiar with the franchise or not.
July 24, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
Star Wars: Andor star Diego Luna describes how they're fitting four seasons of planned story into the second (and final) season
It turns out filming five seasons of a Star Wars show takes a long time - a lot longer than Lucasfilm and its cast & crew thought.
July 24, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
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Visit a Galaxy Far, Far Away with our Star Wars liveblog direct from San Diego Comic-Con 2024!
From The High Republic to Star Wars Outlaws, discover the latest news from the expanded Lucasfilm worlds of books, comics, and games, live and direct from San Diego Comic-Con 2024
July 19, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
The Acolyte was the anarchistic Star Wars story fans of the Jedi never wanted
In the galaxy as shown in the latest Star Wars series on Disney+, there's no such thing as right or wrong, but simply different oppressors at war with each other
July 18, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
Star Wars' Mandalorian actor Brendan Wayne reveals a a touching moment he had with Apollo Creed... we mean Carl Weathers, on the set
Gotta use your big bounty hunter voice when you're wearing a helmet.
July 04, 2024
Trent Cannon
Features
Star Wars author John Jackson Miller reveals how he learned Disney was jettisoning some of the Expanded Universe books as canon, while he was writing one of the books
John Jackson Miller discusses the funny relationship his Star Wars novels have with canon.
July 04, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
What Star Wars: Andor teaches us about rebellion
Lessons about rebellion and resistance from Star Wars: Andor.
July 04, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
News
Star Wars' The Book of Boba Fett had massive script re-writes according to the Armorer actor Emily Swallow
Sometimes those clunky helmets are a curse, other times they're a boon
July 03, 2024
Trent Cannon
Features
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew should be released as a movie instead of a Disney+ TV series (and Lucasfilm has done it before)
Star Wars has turned TV projects into movies before, so what if they did it for Jude Law's Skeleton Crew?
July 01, 2024
Chris Arrant
Guides
Every Star Wars TV series ranked, From The Mandalorian show to the Ewoks cartoon (and more!)
Find your next Star Wars watch with our guide to the best TV shows, from Andor through Ahsoka and The Acolyte!
June 25, 2024
Alex Jaffe
News
More characters from Rogue One are returning for Star Wars prequel Andor season 2, says Diego Luna
“For those who love Rogue One, this season is going to be very special,” Diego Luna teases.
June 23, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
Star Wars: Why did Anakin ignore Kenobi’s ‘high ground’ warning? Hayden Christensen has an answer
What was Anakin Skywalker thinking during the final moments of his climactic duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi? We finally have an answer
June 21, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
What links Rick Astley, Bazil from Star Wars: The Acolyte, and the Justice League Snyder Cut? The iron will of the internet, for better or worse
There's a lot of good online, but sometimes, it can feel like there's even more bad...
June 20, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
The Mandalorian owes its success to Boba Fett, according to the actor behind Din Djarin's helmet
Boba Fett's popularity helped spawn everything about The Mandalorian.
June 20, 2024
Trent Cannon
Features
Four episodes in, who is actually The Acolyte in the latest Star Wars show?
Does the series title really belong to one specific character, and if so, is it who it first appears to be?
June 19, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
Four episodes in, who is The Master in the latest Star Wars show The Acolyte?
Is there a familiar face behind the mask of the big bad in the latest Star Wars series?
June 19, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
Star Wars is inexplicably Anti-Horny, and we need to talk about it
"A long time ago" shouldn't mean "Puritan Massachusetts"
June 18, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Star Wars: The Acolyte's inconvenient truth: the Jedi are the cops (for all the good and all the bad that comes with it)
Having trouble with Star Wars' Jedi as cops? You must unlearn what you have learned
June 18, 2024
Chris Arrant
News
Filmed before The Acolyte, then lost in space, we finally know when Star Wars: Skeleton Crew will arrive
The Jude Law-starring Disney+ series was originally expected to debut on the streamer in late 2023
June 13, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
The Acolyte has arrived, heralding the end of the High Republic and the future of Star Wars
Want to know the details about Disney+ and Lucasfilm's big 2024 series?
June 13, 2024
Chris Arrant
Features
The Acolyte's third episode is a big swing, and whether you liked it or not might say what you want from Star Wars
Time jumps! Jerk Jedi! Alternate lore! Pretty ambitious, Acolyte
June 12, 2024
Graeme McMillan
News
The Acolyte's reveals Mae and Osha's backstory, and asks a really big Star Wars question that might tie the show to Darth Vader
What if Mae and Osha were so much more important to overall Star Wars lore than anyone saw coming?
June 12, 2024
Graeme McMillan
News
How trustworthy are the Jedi, really? The latest Star Wars: The Acolyte episode brings the controversial question to light
What do the Brendok Jedi know, and when did they know it?
June 12, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
From The Clone Wars to Ahsoka to The Acolyte, here is what we know about The Force, Witches, and Star Wars lore
Their power could match even the most powerful of Jedi and Sith
June 12, 2024
Trent Cannon
Features
Are new Star Wars twins Osha and Mae the Rey and Kylo Ren of The Acolyte?
"Always one but born as two"
June 11, 2024
Trent Cannon
Features
The Acolyte is the show that dares to ask 'What is Star Wars without a war?' (And then answers that question, too)
Creator Leslye Headland knows that it's not easy to make a show about war in a time of galactic peace
June 10, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
When is the next episode of the Acolyte? The Star Wars prequel show's season finale release date and time
A new darkness has risen with Star Wars; The Acolyte - here's when the next episode airs
June 10, 2024
Chris Arrant
Features
What is the best Star Wars TV show or series of all time? Tell us!
Of all the Star Wars series from Droids to The Acolyte, which one is the best?
June 07, 2024
Chris Arrant
News
Will Yoda show up in Star Wars: The Acolyte? The showrunner has already put that theory to rest
It was a pretty definitive no
June 06, 2024
Trent Cannon
Guides
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew - Release date, trailer, cast, and more
Have you ever wondered what Goonies would look like in the Star Wars universe? Skeleton Crew promises to deliver those tween 80s vibes - complete with Jude Law
June 05, 2024
Jim McDermott
Features
Star Wars: The Acolyte presents the Jedi as a looming threat - and it is the best part of the series so far
Never trust the government, even when they're space wizards
June 05, 2024
Trent Cannon
Features
The Boba Fett and Mandalorian Armorer actors have an idea for Star Wars next big TV show hit: The Great Boba Fett Bake Off
We never knew how cool the idea seemed until just now.
June 05, 2024
Trent Cannon
Features
Disney+'s The Acolyte dives into the past of Star Wars mythos to show the way forward for the franchise (plus, lots of Jedi!)
The latest Star Wars show (from the creator of Netflix's Russian Doll) feels like the freshest Star Wars story in years
June 05, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Guides
How & where to watch the Star Wars movies and series in chronological or release order
All you need to know to watch all of Star Wars, in both chronological and release order
June 05, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
Star Wars timeline: From The Acolyte to the Rise of Skywalker, here's your guide to the long, long time agos of Disney's space opera saga
Our Star Wars timeline will have you telling your 'ABYs' from your 'BBYs' in no time!
June 05, 2024
Austin Gorton
Features
Okay, so you've watched the new Star Wars show, The Acolyte - what next?
Looking for more Star Wars stories? We're here for you
June 05, 2024
Graeme McMillan
News
Star Wars: The Acolyte season 2 planning is already underway, with showrunner teasing some familiar faces
Yes, The Acolyte was pitched as a multi-year show - and there's a reason we don't see too many familiar faces in the first season
June 05, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
Where do we know Star Wars: The Acolyte's Lee Jung-jae from?
If we put him in a turquoise tracksuit, you'll know him.
June 04, 2024
Trent Cannon
Features
Star Wars: Inside The Acolyte's High Republic era, from its characters to its timeline, and more
Everything you need to know about the exciting new era of Star Wars before The Acolyte
June 03, 2024
Austin Gorton
Features
The Acolyte is the first live-action Star Wars project in 47 years to not rely on nostalgic, legacy characters - and that's a good thing
Star Wars minus your favorite characters? It's a risk, but one worth taking
June 03, 2024
Chris Arrant
News
Star Wars: The Acolyte's secret inspiration is one specific episode of The Clone Wars, says creator Leslye Headland
The Russian Doll creator is a big fan of the animated Star Wars show, and especially one fifth season episode
June 03, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
The Acolyte release date: We now know when the Star Wars prequel is coming out on Disney+
"In an age of light, a darkness rises."
June 03, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Where do we know Star Wars: The Acolyte's Amandla Stenberg from?
The actress was a key part of one of the biggest movie franchises of all time.
June 03, 2024
Trent Cannon
News
Star Wars: The Acolyte ushers in "inclusion and safety for Black nerds," according to star Amandla Stenberg
Diversity on screen was an important part of the show for those responsible for making it
May 31, 2024
Graeme McMillan
Features
Forget Anakin - Yoda is the most tragic figure in the Star Wars universe and here is why
Not always a blessing, long life is
May 31, 2024
Trent Cannon
Features
Star Wars' fandom is "male dominated," and the franchise needs "to be representative of all people" says Lucasfilm boss
Women "can be attacked in ways that can be quite personal," says Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy
May 31, 2024
Graeme McMillan
News
In the Star Wars prequel The Acolyte, the bad guys are the underdogs and the Jedi are the antagonists
Prepare to uncover the Rise of the Sith in Star Wars' The Acolyte
May 30, 2024
Chris Arrant
News
What a little bit of fur tells us about The Armorer in Disney+'s The Mandalorian, according to her actress
Costume designers simply don't get enough credit for the amount of storytelling they can do with a touch of fur
May 30, 2024
Trent Cannon
Features
Star Wars: Here's how the new Disney+ series The Acolyte fits into The High Republic, and the timeline of the Skywalker Saga
The new Star Wars story takes place in a familiar, but unexplored part of the history of a galaxy far, far away
May 29, 2024
Trent Cannon
Features
Disney's Star Wars prequel The Acolyte rating is TV-14 in the US, with warnings for sex, nudity, violence, gore, profanity, frightening & intense scenes, and more
Just because there isn't an open war doesn't mean there is true peace.
May 28, 2024
Trent Cannon
Features
Star Wars prequel The Acolyte has "a lot of stuff" from the EU says the showrunner, and Disney didn't stop her
A decade ago Disney split the Star Wars universe into two parts - in continuity, and not in continuity - but now, the divide might be breaking down.
May 23, 2024
Chris Arrant
News
There's a meta Rashomon effect between the Star Wars prequel the Acolyte and the Star Wars sequel the Last Jedi
The Star Wars prequel The Acolyte is inspired by the same classic film as The Last Jedi
May 22, 2024
Chris Arrant
News
How Disney pushed Star Wars animation to be more kid-friendly from the inside, as explained by a longtime Disney cartoon writer
Star Wars animation writer reveals the kind of changes that came when Disney took over the franchise
May 16, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Guides
All the Star Wars movies ranked, worst to best
Forget the Jedi order, here is our order of the Star Wars movies based on quality - best to worst!
May 10, 2024
Hayden Hefford
Features
How Freddie Prinze Jr. and Vanessa Marshall found out they were going to be parents... on Star Wars Rebels
During C2E2, the pair of actors talked about when they learned Kanan Jarrus and Hera Syndulla were having a child
May 08, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
Features
PollWhich Star Wars movie is the best? You tell us!
The Last Jedi fans welcome.
May 03, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
Features
George Lucas' original plans for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace would've changed Obi-Wan Kenobi forever
How George Lucas almost gave Obi-Wan Kenobi a twist as big as Darth Vader's 'I am your father' reveal
May 02, 2024
Leon Miller
Features
What if Obi-Wan Kenobi was a musical? The Star Wars character's voice actor makes his pitch (and sings a song)
The cast of Star Wars: The Clone Wars pitches an Obi-Wan Kenobi musical
May 02, 2024
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
Spoilers!Star Wars: The Bad Batch ending explained (and the meaning of its surprising last scene)
Disney+'s animated Star Wars clone trooper show concludes in a blockbuster finale.
May 01, 2024
Jim McDermott
News
Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney are ending their relationship with shirt company TeeTurtle
For many the people behind their favorite Marvel, Disney, or Star Wars shirts is going to stop doing it.
April 27, 2024
Chris Arrant
Features
Livestream!Watch the Star Wars: Clone Wars reunion with Ashley Eckstein, Dee Bradley Baker, and more live from ECCC '23
Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor, Matthew Lanter, and Dee Bradley Baker talk about Star Wars: Clone Wars' 15th Anniversary at Emerald City Comic Con 2023, and you can watch it live.
April 23, 2024
Grant DeArmitt
Features
Is TRUFF's $40 Star Wars hot sauce worth it?
Here's what we think about TRUFF's Star Wars Dark Side Hot Sauce
April 23, 2024
Tiffany Babb
News
Star Wars: Come to the Dark Side, we have hot sauce
Love Star Wars and truffles? Here's the hot sauce for you
April 19, 2024
Tiffany Babb
Features
What was George Lucas's Star Wars Sequel trilogy really about?
And did he ever even intend to make it?
April 18, 2024
Alex Jaffe
Features
After years of disappointment, The Acolyte is the first Star Wars entry that I've been excited about
Somehow, my love for Star Wars has returned
April 17, 2024
Trent Cannon