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The Cast and Creators Reunite for Pieces of the Past

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Even more mash-ups and hilarity are in store for fans as four new parts debut on Disney+ this week.

By Amy Richau

For LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past, the four piece sequel series that follows the events of last year’s LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, the goal was clear: take more risks, include more new characters (‘Hello there’ evil Obi-Wan!), and keep the spirit of Star Wars at the heart of the story while enjoying the unique elements of the LEGO universe.

Returning stars Gaten Matarazzo and Tony Revolori, who play brothers Sig and Dev Greebling (AKA Darth Dev) in both series, fully embraced their chance to build on the brotherly bond they developed over the first four piece set. A big part of that was recording together — something the pair didn’t get a chance to do the first go-round. “It was complicated to arrange everyone’s schedule at the same time,” writer and executive producer Benji Samit tells StarWars.com, “but we made an effort to be able to record them together, and it made their chemistry pop even more.”

And after seeing how much fans loved Rebuild the Galaxy, Revolori felt comfortable taking more risks. In the recording booth for the sequel, which premieres on Disney+ September 19, Revolori says he realized, “I can relax a little bit. I can play a little bit more.”…

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How LEGO Star Wars Built 20 Years of Stories

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From animation to building sets to video games, a look back at some of LEGO Star Wars biggest hits

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As we get ready for the premiere of LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past, the mixed-up sequel series, it’s the perfect time to look to the past of the Star Wars and LEGO partnership. For over 25 years, the LEGO brand and Star Wars have teamed up for animated adventures, video games, and countless hours of pure building fun.

LEGO Star Wars projects have a tradition of mixing and mashing up classic Star Wars favorites with a twist (say hello to Darth Jar Jar and even a dark side version of Nubs!) with original characters, vehicles, and just pure zaniness. Pieces of the Past continues the adventures of Sig Greebling, a Force-sensitive nerf herder whose world was turned upside down in 2024’s LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, now on Disney+…

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There’s a Galaxy of Connection

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Celebrate National Video Games Day by exploring references and other deep cuts that connect Star Wars games to the larger galaxy and bring gaming lore into live-action and beyond.

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“Boba Fett? Boba Fett, where?”

Starting with the roll-out of 1982’s Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back for the Atari 2600, video games have remained a vibrant and vital part of Star Wars storytelling. Inherently interactive, fans have long gravitated to Star Wars video games as an opportunity to further immerse themselves into a galaxy of adventure. And, especially with the more current offerings across genre and platform, these games have also become integral to the overall Star Wars mythos, allowing in-depth stories to deepen the adventures we experience on film and beyond.

To celebrate National Video Games Day, we’ve gathered just a few examples of these moments and mentions from the past decade, including a drop-in by everyone’s favorite bounty hunter. Read on to discover if we’ve included your personal favorite!…

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The Mandalorian and Boba Fett Moments

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Din Djarin and Boba Fett’s relationship has evolved from their first encounter in The Mandalorian and their most recent in The Book of Boba Fett.

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Andor Wins Four Emmy® Awards

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On the first night of the 2025 ceremonies, the Disney+ series was recognized for outstanding costumes, production design, visual effects, and picture editing!

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We’re throwing our own “Niamos!” dance party to celebrate Andor’s wins at the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy® Awards!

During the ceremony Saturday night, the Star Wars series created by Tony Gilroy took home four awards, including wins for the outstanding costumes that brought the Chandrilan wedding to life and the masterful production design and visual effects that made the world of Ghorman a reality.

Here’s the full list of winners…

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Who is Jaxxon?

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The unforgettable Legends character returns in LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past, nearly 50 years after his first appearance in Star Wars comics.

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“Who in the Holy Hutch are you?” This introduction in LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past could only come from one character. “I’m not a bunny,” this humanoid, green rabbit says. “The name’s Jaxxon. You probably haven’t heard of me because I’m a real deep-cut….”

When Sig and Dev Greebling are transported into a mysterious, secret realm in the sequel series to LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, premiering on Disney+ September 19, the brothers immediately encounter the one and only Jaxxon. The spunky, energetic character is himself a piece from the past, after a debut 48 years ago in some of the very first original stories told in Star Wars comics….

A legendary Lepi
As early as 1977, storytellers beyond creator George Lucas were already experimenting with new characters, worlds, and far-flung tales in the galaxy far, far away. The Marvel comics adaptation of Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) began its serialization before the release of the film that May. The movie story was complete within six issues. Writer Roy Thomas and artist Howard Chaykin had a relatively blank canvas to imagine the “continuing the saga begun in the film by George Lucas.”…

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Andor Season 2 | Behind-the-Scenes Commentary with Tony Gilroy | “We are the Ghor” National Anthem

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Andor Creator and Showrunner Tony Gilroy gives a behind-the-scenes look at the Ghorman National Anthem being sung before the Ghorman Massacre. He cites examples of anthems’ place in history, walks through its effect on Syril and Dedra’s self-reflection as characters, and discusses the use of practical sets and the dedicated extras and teams that choreographed this scene.

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Lucasfilm Announces Casting for Star Wars: Starfighter

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The Shawn Levy directed film has begun production in the U.K.

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Today, to mark the start of production on Star Wars: Starfighter, Lucasfilm has announced the full cast for the upcoming feature film from Shawn Levy. Joining the previously announced Ryan Gosling, the film stars Flynn Gray, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, and Amy Adams.

Star Wars: Starfighter is an all-new standalone adventure. The film, which has begun production, is an entirely original story set in a period of time never before explored in Star Wars. Starfighter will be released theatrically May 28, 2027.

“I feel a profound sense of excitement and honor as we begin production on Star Wars: Starfighter,” says filmmaker Shawn Levy. “From the day Kathy Kennedy called me up, inviting me to develop an original adventure in this incredible Star Wars galaxy, this experience has been a dream come true, creatively and personally. Star Wars shaped my sense of what story can do, how characters and cinematic moments can live with us forever. To join this storytelling galaxy with such brilliant collaborators onscreen and off, is the thrill of a lifetime.”

Directed by Shawn Levy, the film is produced by Levy and Kathleen Kennedy. Executive producers are Ryan Gosling, Dan Levine, Mary McLaglen, and Josh McLaglen. The script is by Jonathan Tropper.

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Cassian Andor Official Compilation

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Rebellions are built on hope” Celebrate Cassian’s loyalty to the rebellion. Andor Season 2 now streaming on ‪@disneyplus‬

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Mon Mothma Official Compilation | Andor Season 2

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Mon Mothma stands for all. Andor Season 2 now streaming on ‪@disneyplus‬

For Your Emmy® Consideration in all categories including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Directing, Outstanding Writing & more.

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Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 Key Art Revealed

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Celebrated anime artist and filmmaker Shinya Ohira discussed his new Star Wars short in a pre-recorded Q+A at Anime NYC today.

By Lucas Seastrom

When Star Wars: Visions Volume 3 arrives on Disney+ on October 29, 2025, the third installment of the anthology series will feature nine brand-new anime shorts all made by Japanese studios. Today, fans at Anime NYC were treated to a special preview of david production’s “BLACK,” with new insights from the writer and director Shinya Ohira. Combining stunning imagery and music, the experimental short presents a psychedelic battle between past and present, light and dark, and life and death in the haunted psyche of an Imperial stormtrooper on the cusp of defeat.

“Something nobody’s ever seen before”
“We wanted to offer a film that was mainly based on Sakura Fujiawara’s singing voice set against these visuals of intense battles. That was our vision as we made the film,” Ohira explained in a pre-recorded video. A veteran artist of everything from Akira (1988) to Spirited Away (2001) to Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Ohira-san also served as character designer and key animator for “BLACK.” “As for the interpretation of the story,” he added, “the viewers, the people watching it, we kind of wanted to leave it up to them…so that’s how we made it.”…

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Luthen Confronts Mon Mothma | Andor Season 2 | Offical Clip

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Luthen confronts Mon Mothma about Tay Kolma’s loyalties and what should be done… Andor Season 2 is now streaming on ‪@disneyplus‬

For Your Emmy® Consideration in all categories including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Directing, Outstanding Writing & more. #Emmys #FYC #Andor

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Andor Season 2 | Behind-the-Scenes Commentary

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From Cassian to Dedra, casting directors Nina Gold and Martin Ware discuss casting Andor, and the characters’ shifts in Season 2. For Your Emmy® Consideration in all categories including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Directing, Outstanding Writing & more

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We All Want to Dance

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From the intergalactic hit playing at the Mothma wedding on Chandrila to the foreboding “Imperial March” parading down the streets of Lothal, diegetic music in Star Wars helps bring the galaxy to life.

By Paige Lyman

Star Wars is full of music that helps set the tone — from John Williams’ opening crawl with its bombastic intro to the softer, sweeping love theme for “Anakin and Padmé.” The scores that accompany Star Wars films, shows, and games work cohesively to heighten the emotion of the stories and bring memorable sound to our experience watching tales of the galaxy far, far away.

But there’s another type of music at play: diegetic music. Also known as source music, diegetic sound originates from a source within a story, like the Max Rebo Band playing live at Jabba’s Palace in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, the live orchestra that punctuates the tale of Darth Plagueis in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, and the DJ droid blaring “Niamos!” for Mon Mothma and her guests in Andor Season 2.

From the original trilogy and Andor to Star Wars Rebels and beyond, we’ve pulled together some of our favorite instances of diegetic music in the Star Wars galaxy…

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Star Wars: A New Hope Returns to Theaters for 50th Anniversary

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Experience the classic Star Wars film with a theatrical re-release beginning in April of 2027

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On April 30th, 2027, we’ll celebrate the 50th anniversary of Star Wars with a re-release of the 1977 classic back for a limited time, in theaters everywhere.

Part of Lucasfilm’s yearlong 50th anniversary celebration, Star Wars: A New Hope will play in theaters over the May the 4th holiday, also known as Star Wars Day.

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Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder

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The vehicle from Star Wars: A New Hope is among over 40,000 pieces creator George Lucas has collected over 50 years.

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Luke Skywalker may have been able to part with his X-34 Landspeeder for mere credits, but Star Wars creator George Lucas refuses to sell the vehicle or the other 40,000 pieces in his vast art collection.

At San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, Lucas made his first appearance at the convention that famously introduced the concept of Star Wars to the world in 1976 nearly a year before the film’s debut.

On a Hall H panel hosted by Queen Latifah, Lucas discussed his love of art, film, and plans for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, alongside Oscar winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and Lucasfilm’s senior vice president and executive design director Doug Chiang….

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Begun, the Clone Wars Have

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Get the full details from today’s SDCC Hasbro panel, leaning into classic battles and legendary duels with this year’s exclusive product reveals.

By Dustin Diehl

San Diego Comic-Con: the stars, the behind-the-scenes sneak peeks, the trailers, the cosplay … and the exclusive reveals! Hasbro clearly understood the assignment, with today’s panel revealing, among others, The Acolyte’s Stranger making his Black Series debut, a trio of Vintage Collection Force spirits paying homage to both original and Special Edition versions of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, and a new LAAT/i Gunship hoping to stick the HasLab landing.

Whether you were in the room for the announcements at today’s Hasbro Panel or not, here’s a closer look at all the news, reveals, and first-look images!

The Black Series captures the frenzy of unforgettable Star Wars duels
It’s hard to think of Star Wars and not instantly conjure images of nail-biting lightsaber battles. Now, thanks to these recent additions to Hasbro’s The Black Series, fans can recreate their favorite duels in stunning detail!…

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Never-Before-Seen Art Celebrates 20 Years of Lucasfilm Animation

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Exclusive new looks at beloved characters, pages from Dave Filoni’s sketchbook, maquettes and models from the Lucasfilm Archives, and more!

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In 2011, Dave Filoni sat down to sketch a clone trooper, and he wrote a few names beside him: Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, and Crosshair. That drawing has journeyed over the years from Filoni’s desk at Lucasfilm Animation, to the production of Star Wars: The Bad Batch in 2021, and all the way to a booth at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con – where you can see it for yourself!

The drawing is one of many never-before-seen illustrations and images on display now. At the annual convention and celebration of all things pop culture SDCC attendees will get an up-close look at the future of Lucasfilm Animation with the first still of Maul from Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, and an intimate exhibit celebrating the 20th anniversary of Lucasfilm Animation, spanning Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars Resistance, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and the anthology series Tales of the Jedi, Tales of the Empire, and Tales of the Underworld….

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Weaving Character

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Learn how the Emmy-nominated designer created hundreds of costumes to populate an Chandrilan wedding, a Ghorman city, and more!

By Jade Fabello

Andor Season 2 tells the story of rebellion across multiple fronts. In Andor, no single gunshot or speech defines what it means to oppose oppressive regimes. Instead, pulling from showrunner and writer Tony Gilroy’s deep study of history, we see not only ground and high-level espionage but also delicate political maneuvering that forces every character involved to sacrifice or risk personal happiness, safety, or relationships. And each new world seen in the Disney+ series must be populated by hundreds of uniquely-costumed extras to make every location feel as real as the last.

Emmy-nominated costume designer Michael Wilkinson — who worked on both seasons and has been nominated for his work on Episode 3 “Harvest” alongside 13 other Emmy Award nominations for the series including Outstanding Drama Series — faced unique design challenges working specifically on a Star Wars show. “We often worked extensively with the Creature FX department. We had a whole team within the costume department that made the costumes for this diverse, eccentric bunch of characters,” Wilkinson tells StarWars.com. But at its core, Andor is a show that focuses on its human characters, like Senator Mon Mothma and the people of Ghorman. And with that, Wilkinson was tasked with finding a way to weave the complex ideas of the story into the literal fabrics of the show….

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Andor Up for 14 Emmy Awards

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The critically acclaimed and fan-favorite Star Wars series is also nominated for guest acting, production design, costumes and more!

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Andor, the groundbreaking Star Wars series that tells the story of the birth of the Rebellion, has been nominated for Outstanding Drama Series at the 2025 Emmy® Awards.

The nod is one of 14 nominations announced today by the Television Academy, securing Andor’s place among this year’s greatest series for its immersive storytelling, from the scripting of each episode to the final cut, including nominations for Forest Whitaker’s reprisal as Saw Gerrera and Alan Tudyk’s return as the voice and motion capture artist behind K-2SO.

“I’m really proud,” Andor series creator and executive producer Tony Gilroy tells StarWars.com. “This is substantial work and a substantial amount of people’s lives went into this. And I really view all these awards as community property on this show. So [executive producer Sanne Wohlenberg] and I are very proud.”…

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7 Ways Andor Changes How We Watch Rogue One

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A prequel to a prequel, the Disney+ series provides immeasurable depth to a fan-favorite Star Wars movie, the character of Cassian Andor, and the birth of the Rebel Alliance.

By Lucas Seastrom

As with other Star Wars prequel stories, Andor reminds us that the most fascinating element of any tale is not the “what” but the “how.” Going into Andor’s first season, audiences knew its namesake, Cassian Andor, would meet his ultimate fate in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story: a heroic self-sacrifice alongside Jyn Erso at the Battle of Scarif. But knowing how Cassian’s story ends only fuels the desire to understand the journey to get there.

As a nuanced character study, Andor helps shape our understanding of Rogue One’s story, and in particular, of course, that of Cassian. Let’s explore seven ways that the latest Disney+ Star Wars series empowers our viewing of the feature film that is fast becoming a classic.

1. Friends come in all forms.

In the midst of the tragedy of the Ghorman Massacre, Cassian manages to steal a KX-series security droid, which is then reprogrammed back at the Yavin base. K-2SO’s first line is an innocent “Hello,” a touching bookend to his final “Goodbye” before his sacrifice in Rogue One….

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Figures of Speech: Andor’s Monologues

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The critically acclaimed series is filled with incredible monologues that inspire hope, call-out evil, and remind us what the Rebellion is all about.

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“General Kenobi, years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars…”

Ever since Princess Leia Organa delivered a staticky hologram message to a pondering Obi-Wan Kenobi, monologues have remained a vital part of Star Wars storytelling, including Yoda’s meditations on the Force and Sheev Palpatine’s manipulative tale of Darth Plagueis the Wise. Sometimes interrupted, always passionate, these singular speeches help viewers gain a deeper understanding into a character’s worldview and needs, galactic or otherwise.

In Andor, a legion of script writers led by series creator Tony Gilroy wield monologues as an emotional weapon. We’ve chosen eight of our favorites from both seasons of the series; our collection, written by Tony Gilroy, Dan Gilroy, and Beau Willimon, focuses on the instrumental individuals behind the rebel uprising against the Galactic Empire, while giving viewers deeper insight into the developing worldview of Cassian Andor…

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Diego Luna on Andor and Rogue One

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The star and executive producer of the critically-acclaimed Disney+ series has been changed for good thanks to Cassian Andor.

By Kelly Knox

Star Wars changed everything for Diego Luna.

“It’s probably one of the biggest surprises in my life, what saying yes to Rogue One brought to me,” Luna tells StarWars.com. “I had no expectations. And every time I talk about the character or the project, I still feel I’m talking about something that is very personal.”

Now reflecting on the journey that encapsulates roughly a decade of his life, the star of Andor, with all episodes now streaming on Disney+, looks back on the end of the acclaimed series, the most important missions for Cassian Andor, and how Andor led viewers and the Rebellion back to the film that started it all….

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Tudyk Captures the Childlike Joy of K-2SO

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The actor who voices and performs the movements for the towering Imperial droid has a theory that, in his reprogrammed mind, Cassian Andor is basically K-2’s dad.

By Jade Fabello

After the terrifying Ghorman Massacre that unleashed the full might of the Empire’s KX droids, K-2SO, the fan-favorite reprogrammed Imperial droid, made his proper return to the screen in Andor Season 2, episode 9.

It has been a full decade since actor Alan Tudyk first said hello to the character during the filming of Rogue One. And over the years, Tudyk has had many opportunities to see how much the character means to fans.

“The neat stories that I always just love to hear are the ones between fathers and daughters, mothers and sons,” he says. “K-2 and Rogue One are things that families connect over. Although for kids, ‘I’m like, God, wow, kids are growing up fast because everyone dies.’ For me, it would’ve been traumatizing, but I was a kid from the seventies.”

Tudyk recently sat down with StarWars.com during a visit to the Lucasfilm headquarters to reflect on the enduring appeal of the wise-cracking droid who, in Tudyk’s mind at least, thinks of Cassian like a father…

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The Sounds of Ghorman

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Go behind the scenes of the creation of the Ghorman soundscape, one of Season 2’s most important locations complete with its own language and unique anthem.

By Amy Richau

Sound design is all about the focus. Who you’re with in a scene. The location. The actions. The emotions.

While Ghorman has been mentioned in previous Star Wars stories, including Andor’s first season and the Star Wars Rebels episode “Secret Cargo,” Andor Season 2 marks the world’s live-action debut. First seen (and heard) in Andor’s travelogue newsreel, series creator and executive producer Tony Gilroy led the creative team on the immersive building that would lead to a massacre in a city plaza, with composer Brandon Roberts and sound designers David Acord and Margit Pfeiffer joining forces to bring the sounds of the planet to the screen.

Ghorman is of great interest to the Empire…

We got our first glimpse of Ghorman in the Season 2 premiere “One Year Later,” when Director Orson Krennic played a short film about the planet’s textile manufacturing to a room full of ISB operatives. Roberts’ score for the short leaned into the idea of it as a tourism propaganda film and helped him establish the Ghor music with a “colorful, waltzy 3/4 Straussian feel.”…

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Put a Bounty on Marvel’s Star Wars: Boba Fett

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Get your first look at cover art for issue #1 before it lands this fall.

By Paige Lyman

Boba Fett’s fearsome reputation is known throughout the galaxy, from the sands of Tatooine to the glittering skylines of Coruscant. As one of the most capable bounty hunters in any star system, he’s not afraid to pick up the most dangerous bounties and missions around.

Today, StarWars.com announces Boba Fett’s next gig: an all-new Marvel comic miniseries, Star Wars: Boba Fett — Black, White & Red. Get your first look at the cover art for issue #1 by artist Alex Maleev below, plus variant covers by Josemaria Casanovas and Leinil Francis Yu.

The new four-issue miniseries Star Wars: Boba Fett — Black, White & Red follows in the footsteps of two other Star Wars: Black, White & Red anthologies that featured Darth Vader and Darth Maul, with brand new standalone stories by various creative teams told in the atmospheric color palette of black, white, and red. Issue #1 is written by Benjamin Percy and features interior art by Chris Allen…

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Adria Arjona Finds Justice for Bix Caleen

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The actor looks back on the emotional journey of portraying Cassian Andor’s ally and bringing her full-circle this season with a decisive victory against the Empire and a heartbreaking choice.

By Ethan Sacks

As the start of filming on Andor Season 2 neared, actor Adria Arjona struggled to find her way back into the right headspace to return as Bix Caleen.

Reprising a role for a second season of a television series was a career first for Arjona, and the enormous expectations after the popularity and critical acclaim of Andor’s first season brought enormous pressure. Acting opposite scene partners Diego Luna (who stars as Cassian Andor) and Stellan Skarsgård (who plays Luthen Rael) required matching serious intensity as would the storylines delivered by creator and executive producer Tony Gilroy and his writers involving Bix’s psychological trauma after torture at the hands of an Imperial interrogator. Arjona would have to channel painful emotions.

“There’s no way really to prepare yourself other than just diving in head first and trusting in Tony’s writing,” Arjona tells StarWars.com. “Really putting yourself in Bix’s shoes, through all that Bix has gone through. It’s a challenge.”

So Arjona put herself in those shoes quite literally.

“I asked [production] to lend me her boots, so I borrowed those boots, walked around [the studio] in them and I tried to find her again,” she says.

Arjona also returned to the exact perfume she wore in Season 1 to trigger memories of what it felt like to embody the mechanic-turned-fugitive. “The second I sprayed it, I was back to Bix,” she added. “I sounded like her. I was walking a little bit like her.”

That walk and those boots took her down a dark path for the new season of Andor, with Season 2…

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Join Tony Gilroy for a Day at Lucasfilm

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The Andor showrunner recently joined K-2SO actor Alan Tudyk and supervising sound editor Margit Pfeiffer for a day at the company’s San Francisco headquarters.

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Inside the lobby at Lucasfilm headquarters, fans flock to take pictures with Darth Vader’s armor and a statue of K-2SO, and attempt to further glimpse inside the hallowed halls. For a few lucky fans last Monday, however, stopping by led to a photo with the actual K-2SO, who was waiting to start a tour of his own.

Alan Tudyk, the acclaimed actor and man behind the machine, hadn’t been to Lucasfilm’s San Francisco campus since Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. “This is the coolest day ever,” beamed the father of the group, who had brought his two sons along for the Star Wars fun.

Joining Tudyk on his tour was Tony Gilroy, Andor’s creator and executive producer, and Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm Story Group, who led the duo on an in-depth look around the historic Presidio campus. “Do you get sick of me talking about you?” Gilroy jokingly asked Hidalgo, “I talk about you all the time.” Indeed, their close collaboration throughout the production of the show led to the appearance of Yavin 4 in early episodes of Season 2 and a new understanding of the “Tarkin Massacre” on Ghorman…

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Who is Cad Bane?

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The longtime bounty hunter is a tough match for any foe, and over the decades has remained firmly committed to his own self-gain.

By Lucas Seastrom

Cad Bane is one of the most effective bounty hunters ever depicted in the Star Wars galaxy. In recent years, audiences have grown accustomed to watching the exploits of sophisticated fighters like Din Djarin in The Mandalorian. But in earlier decades with the release of the first Star Wars trilogies, characters like Boba and Jango Fett received limited screen time to demonstrate their abilities. It was the debut of Cad Bane in the Season 1 finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars that fully introduced fans to a bounty hunter in their prime.

The epitome of the self-interested, ruthless loner, Bane’s return in Lucasfilm Animation’s Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld – now available to stream on Disney+ – sheds light on the character’s little-known origins. But what do the established stories in both animation and live-action tell us about this elusive bounty hunter?

A Brief from George Lucas
While featuring stories on the front lines involving Jedi, clone troopers, and their Separatist foes, The Clone Wars also took plenty of time to explore the criminal underbelly and political intrigues of the Star Wars galaxy. Cad Bane emerged as a bounty hunter specially-equipped for battling Jedi, the chief threat to all nefarious dealings in that era. When supervising director Dave Filoni and screenwriter Henry Gilroy began envisioning such a character, the show’s creator George Lucas made a couple specific suggestions…

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Who Is Asajj Ventress?

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As we explore her next chapter in Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld, we find ourselves asking: How did you become this, Asajj?

By Kelly Knox

Two red lightsabers ignite in the dark. With a snarl and an unmatched fury, the assassin strikes. Who was she before wrath consumed her? And who will she become?

With her distinct character design, a history of witty banter with a certain sassy Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, and a surprising path through the galaxy far, far away, Asajj Ventress has become a Star Wars fan favorite. Comic books, animation, and novels explore the intriguing character’s long history as she discovers who she really is and what she believes in.

Let’s get re-acquainted with the Nightsister as she returns in the recently released Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld!…

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