Star Wars can often feel culturally ubiquitous, but sometimes even the people operating in its space find themselves inside a world they have little experience with (as they should: Star Wars thrives on the perspectives of many, and that includes people unfamiliar with it!). But for Eman Esfandi, going back and acquiring that knowledge made … Read more
Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi games are firmly embedded in the years before the original trilogy, and keep the focus on a core cast of wholly new heroes and villains. It’s what made Star Wars Jedi: Survivor from earlier this year so excellent: the games take advantage of that relative freedom from the timeline and offer … Read more
There has been a great disturbance in the Force. As if, somehow, millions of voices suddenly cried out “what if Dave Filoni got a promotion?” and were suddenly answered. But while the ascension of the Clone Wars and Rebels producer to the upper echelons of Lucasfilm may give Star Wars fans tired of his particular … Read more
Twenty years ago today, the sight of a diminutive cartoon Yoda—shrouded in a hooded cloak, his green lightsaber ignited and held high—riding atop a goatlike mount transformed Star Wars as we knew it. A year before at the climax of Attack of the Clones, he’d told us that begun, the Clone Wars had: now they … Read more
Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy with Shawn Levy at the world premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.Photo: esse Grant/Getty Images for Disney (Getty Images) Unlike a lot of other upcoming movies, Deadpool 3 is still on track to open as scheduled, in May of 2024. In a new interview, director Shawn Levy explains that much of … Read more
Image: Hasbro Hasbro’s 6″ line of Star Wars action figures, the Black Series, launched a decade ago, and has gone on to give us many great representations (and some not so great) of Star Wars heroes and villains from across the galaxy. It is, however, absolutely insane that it will take until 2024 for the … Read more
Image: Loungefly Cosplay looks for your pets are here from Loungefly, with a new line of backpacks and other accessories from some of your favorite fandoms. The soon-to-be released collection has revealed its first line of pet gear just in time for holiday shopping. It’s not only super adorable but highly functional, with awesome collars, … Read more
Image: Lucasfilm Sure, Huyang isn’t an organic being. But I think he deserves a special shoutout—a crowning shoutout, in fact—if we’re talking about eyes in Ahsoka because the show did such a fantastic job with his design and keeping him emotive with one simple trick: making his photoreceptors LEDs that were capable of animating Huyang’s … Read more
A man who was encouraged to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II by his chatbot girlfriend was sentenced to nine years in prison by a UK judge on Thursday. Jaswant Singh Chail was just 19 years old when he scaled the wall of the late queen’s Windsor Castle home, armed with a loaded crossbow and donning a … Read more
It’s mind-blowing to think Ahsoka is already over. Fans waited years to see how the character’s story would continue and now, a mere eight episodes later, a major piece of that story has come to its end. Spoilers of the Week May 9-13 The season has seen its ups and downs, from a slow-paced, slightly … Read more