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Dressing The Acolyte

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Costume designer Jennifer Bryan shares a closer look at Mae, Sol, Indara, and other characters from the new Star Wars series.

By Kristin Baver

The murder mystery at the epicenter of The Acolyte, the new Star Wars live-action series premiering on Disney+ this week, pits the Jedi Order against a new assailant: an assassin out for revenge.

At a glance, costume designer Jennifer Bryan knew the Jedi robes and Mae’s assassin garments needed to work in harmony — essentially two sides of the same coin, — while simultaneously ushering in a new era of design for the series set during the High Republic, about 100 years prior to Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. To achieve that delicate balance, Bryan and her team looked to real-world warriors and previous Star Wars costumes, then remixed the individual elements for something brand new. Among her inspirations were Trisha Biggar’s prequel costumes, which Bryan studied up close during a visit to Skywalker Ranch’s archives. “On this amazing planet that we live on now, I see a lot of things that I put together and put in the galaxy of Star Wars,” Bryan tells StarWars.com. “It’s different, but somehow I like to think that you sense the origins of the elements that I put together in The Acolyte.”…

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Ahmed Best on the Creation and Legacy of Jar Jar Binks

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The actor, educator, and futurist looks back on his collaboration with George Lucas and ILM to create one of cinema’s first all-digital starring characters

By Lucas Seastrom

On the day he screen-tested for Jar Jar Binks, Ahmed Best didn’t expect to meet George Lucas. Arriving at Industrial Light & Magic’s (ILM) facility in San Rafael, California, Best was greeted in the main lobby by statues of Han Solo in carbonite and the Energizer Bunny (for which ILM produced commercials). “Everyone knew it was a visual effects house, but I didn’t know how many things were done there,” he tells StarWars.com. “ILM runs that gamut. You can be the Energizer Bunny or Han Solo and everything in between. I was really excited walking through there and thinking, this is a place of infinite possibilities and creativity.”

Best’s next surprise was the format in which his screen test would be shot. A soundstage that looked more like an average warehouse had been converted into a motion-capture volume, technology that was brand new to filmmaking. “They pull out this LYCRA cat suit and say, ‘Put this on,’” Best recalls. “I was like, ‘What is actually going on in here? What am I going to be doing?’ [laughs] They gave me the cat suit and six-inch platform shoes and a headband. They had all of what we now know as targets on them. They were huge. Targets now are really tiny. At the time they were like golf balls.”…

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The Acolyte Character Posters Debut

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The Jedi arrive in new lightsaber-swishing digital posters featuring friends and foes from the upcoming Disney+ series.

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The one-week countdown to the two-episode premiere of The Acolyte has begun and the first official character posters from the series have arrived.

Jedi Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) stands ready to defend peace and justice in the galaxy, with his brilliant blue lightsaber ignited. Jedi Master Indara (Carrie-Anne Moss) is strong with the Force, green lightsaber drawn, but lowered. And Padawan Jecki Lon (Dafne Keen) is ready to join the fight. The set also features Mae (Amandla Stenberg), a masked assassin on the hunt for revenge and Jedi Master Kelnacca (Joonas Suotamo) caught in the middle of a fierce Wookiee roar….

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The Acolyte Launch Event Takes Hollywood

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Cast and crew walked a red carpet lined with fans to celebrate the arrival of the new Star Wars live-action thriller, on Disney+ starting June 4.

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The hunt is on for the mysterious assassin who has made the Jedi Order her target.

Last night, the stars of The Acolyte gathered for the world premiere of the new Star Wars live-action series, which is launching on Disney+ on June 4 with a two-episode debut.

(See Cast & Crew Interviews HERE)

Stars Amandla Stenberg (Mae), Emmy-winner Lee Jung-jae (Jedi Master Sol), Manny Jacinto (Qimir), Dafne Keen (Jedi Padawan Jecki Lon), Charlie Barnett (Jedi Knight Yord Fandar), Jodie Turner-Smith (Mother Aniseya), Rebecca Henderson (Vernestra Rwoh), Dean-Charles Chapman (Jedi Master Torbin), Carrie-Anne Moss (Jedi Master Indara), and Margarita Levieva (Mother Koril) walked a red carpet lined with ecstatic fans, including some in their best Jedi robes….

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Ben Burtt Talks Sound Design and Picture Editing with George Lucas

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Lucasfilm’s first sound designer wore multiple hats on The Phantom Menace and played a central role in crafting the first Star Wars prequel.

By Lucas Seastrom

Back in 1975, Ben Burtt had been hired as the sound designer for Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), becoming one of the first artists of any discipline to work on George Lucas’ space fantasy. Some two decades later, as Lucas began to lay the groundwork for his new prequel trilogy of Star Wars films, Burtt was recruited once again to join the upstart crew.

“I had been working on some project at the Technical Building at Skywalker Ranch,” Burtt tells StarWars.com, “and I got a call from Jane Bay, George’s executive assistant, and she said, ‘Ben, George wants to talk to you about something. Can you come up right now?’ [laughs] I knew that they always started this way.”…

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Sound-mixing The Phantom Menace with Gary Rydstrom

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The award-winning artist from Skywalker Sound made his Star Wars debut as a re-recording mixer on Episode I.

By Lucas Seastrom

By 1999, sound artist Gary Rydstrom had worked at Skywalker Sound for 16 years. He’d won seven Academy Awards for his work on Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Jurassic Park (1993), Titanic (1997), and Saving Private Ryan (1999). He was on the cutting edge of Lucasfilm’s pioneering work in digital sound technology. But he still hadn’t worked on a Star Wars movie.

“I will point out that I worked on Spaceballs [1987], so that kind of counts,” Rydstrom notes with a laugh. He’d joined the company in 1983, only months after the completion of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. His work on the Mel Brooks parody Spaceballs and the theme park attraction Star Tours would be as close as he’d get before Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) came along. “That was the first real honest-to-God Star Wars film that I got to work on.”…

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Animating The Phantom Menace with ILM’s Rob Coleman

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Today’s creative director of ILM’s Sydney studio talks Jar Jar Binks, digital armies, and working with George Lucas on the project of a lifetime.

By Lucas Seastrom

Fairly late in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999), as the heroes plan their concerted attack on the Trade Federation army occupying Naboo, Jar Jar Binks and Boss Nass have a brief moment together. They walk through a forest, the shorter and squatter Boss Nass’ arm wrapped around Jar Jar’s taller and lankier shoulders. The onetime Gungan outcast is now in rising favor with his people’s leader, and Jar Jar enjoys brushing off Boss Nass’ adulations with mock-humility. It is only when Nass tells Jar Jar that he is to be made a general that Jar Jar breaks character and faints with surprise.

The moment is portrayed in one shot as the camera pans from right to left. The characters’ equal sense of playfulness and pomposity is fun and believable, communicated in large part by their body language and distinct inflections of speech. It’s a type of scene that could be in any kind of movie. What makes this scene different from most others up to that point in time, however, is that both Jar Jar Binks and Boss Nass are computer-animated by the artists at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), with voice performances by Ahmed Best and Brian Blessed, respectively….

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Phantom at 25

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The renowned visual effects supervisor takes us inside some of Episode I’s most groundbreaking visuals.

By Dan Brooks

Kicking off the highly-anticipated prequel trilogy, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace arrived May 19, 1999. To celebrate its 25th anniversary, StarWars.com presents “Phantom at 25,” a special series of interviews, editorials, and more.

To put it simply, there is no Star Wars: The Phantom Menace without John Knoll.

Having joined Industrial Light & Magic in 1986 as a technical assistant, Knoll cut his teeth and worked his way up on projects ranging from Captain EO to The Abyss, but the turning point in his career came with the Star Wars Special Editions. Working directly with George Lucas, he served as visual effects supervisor on new, digital additions to the classic films….

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Star Wars Celebration I: An Oral History

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Ahead of Star Wars Celebration Japan in 2025, take a look back at the people who created and attended the very first Star Wars Celebration on April 30, 1999.

By Kristin Baver

With tickets for Star Wars Celebration Japan now on sale, we wanted to take a look back at the very first Star Wars Celebration, which opened 25 years ago in Denver, Colorado. The following article was originally published in the 2019 Star Wars Celebration guide, and is presented here for the first time on StarWars.com with minor updates.

For 25 years, Star Wars fans have gathered around the world to celebrate their love of the saga, forge new friendships over shared interests, and stand in awe among the creators, actors, and artists they admire. To celebrate the anniversary of the very first (and soaking wet) Star Wars Celebration in Denver, Colorado in 1999, we take a look back across the years with event producers, collectors, and fans….

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Get Ready for Darth Jar Jar

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The four-piece animated special, arriving September 13 on Disney+, will reimagine the Star Wars galaxy like never before.

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The Star Wars galaxy is getting shaken up in a whole new way.

StarWars.com is thrilled to announce LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, a “four-piece” animated special coming to Disney+ on September 13. In LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy, the entire Star Wars galaxy gets completely mixed up when an ordinary nerf-herder, Sig Greebling (Gaten Matarazzo), unearths a powerful artifact called the Cornerstone from a hidden Jedi temple. He finds himself thrust into adventure in a new, wondrously wild and twisted version of the galaxy where good guys are bad, bad guys are good, and the fate of all depends on Sig becoming the hero who can put all the pieces back together. Check out the teaser trailer below!…

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Darkness Rises in The Acolyte

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Watch the final trailer and see the official poster for the Disney+ series. It’s a Star Wars Day gift!

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The mystery of The Acolyte deepens. With one month left before the premiere, today a new trailer for the Star Wars series shed some light on the terrifying figure carrying a red-bladed lightsaber in the Disney+ title.

But beyond the intriguing and fearsome visage glimpsed in the final moments, showrunner Leslye Headland is tight-lipped about the newcomer. “I’ll just say that they’re my favorite character,” Headland tells StarWars.com….

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Star Wars: Tales of the Empire Is Here!

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The newest animated anthology of shorts is now streaming, only on Disney+.

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Created by Dave Filoni, the series of shorts devotes three episodes each to established characters revealing key moments not previously explored on screen. In Tales of the Empire, journey into the fearsome Galactic Empire through the eyes of two warriors on divergent paths — Nightsister Morgan Elsbeth and former Jedi Barriss Offee. We’ll learn how a young Morgan survives the annihilation of her clan and navigates the expanding Imperial galaxy on a path of vengeance in alliance with Thrawn. Meanwhile, former Jedi Padawan Offee gets a second chance as a member of the Inquisitorius serving the Sith Lord Darth Vader. The choices they make will define their destinies….

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Bad Batch Declassified: 5 Highlights from “The Cavalry Has Arrived”

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Clone Force 99 signs off.

By Dan Brooks

All missions come to an end.

“The Cavalry Has Arrived” brings Star Wars: The Bad Batch to a close in epic fashion, as the Batch and nefarious Imperial scientist Dr. Hemlock collide one last time. The series finale picks up with Hunter, Wrecker, Crosshair, Echo, and Emerie all looking to save Omega from Hemlock and his experiments at Mount Tantiss, though the young clone takes the initiative to free herself — and in classic Omega style. A tense, emotional, and action-packed double-length episode, “The Cavalry Has Arrived” delivers satisfying answers, endings, and futures for these unique heroes and villains we’ve come to know the last few years. Here are five highlights….

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5 Places to Visit During Your Galactic Getaway

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Take a trip to these Tokyo hotspots, no hyperdrive required.

By Kelly Knox

Are you making plans to attend Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025? The world’s biggest event dedicated to all things Star Wars lands at the Makuhari Messe located near Tokyo, in the Chiba prefecture, next April. You already know you’re going to celebrate the saga and get exciting first looks at everything coming soon to the galaxy far, far away, but Celebration is also the perfect opportunity to see the sights of Tokyo.

The neighborhoods of Tokyo all have their own personality and characteristics unique to that area. Ready to take your first step into a larger world while you’re in the biggest city on Earth for Star Wars Celebration Japan? Plot in these coordinates and punch it!…

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Spectacular Finish

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Stars Dee Bradley Baker and Michelle Ang look back at three years of voicing Clone Force 99 and a bittersweet goodbye with the series finale, now streaming on Disney+.

By Kristin Baver

After the Season 2 finale of Star Wars: The Batch, Clone Force 99 actor Dee Bradley Baker sat down for an unusual writing assignment: a eulogy for Bad Batch’s fallen soldier, Tech. Penned from the perspective of Echo, two of the many characters Baker has expertly voiced over three seasons of The Bad Batch, seven seasons of The Clone Wars, and countless other shows, the exercise was an essential part of Baker’s process. “The loss of Tech hit everyone hard,” Baker tells StarWars.com. “And this was just for myself, Echo writing out how he looks at this. Because Tech got to finish his life in a way that saved the mission and it saved his team. That’s how I frame it for myself, as this heroic and admirable finish to a well-lived life.”

With the final episode in Season 3, which also serves as the show’s finale, Baker — who voices no less than 22 characters this season alone, — co-star Michelle Ang, and the rest of the cast, crew, and fans of the series are forced to say a different kind of goodbye to the Batch.

Since Ang’s bright-eyed Omega first joined her brothers and left the rainy world of Kamino, the series has explored the clones’ role in the early days of the Empire, as they tried to make sense of a changing galaxy and forge their own identity as elite soldiers without a war to fight. At the heart of the series, Omega has instilled a sense of hope and certainty that things would improve….

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Brad Rau and Jennifer Corbett Look Back on The Bad Batch

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The duo behind the animated series breaks down the final season and more.

By Dan Brooks

With the conclusion of Star Wars: The Bad Batch this week, a journey ends not just for our elite-clone heroes, but also for Brad Rau and Jennifer Corbett. Executive producer/supervising director and executive producer/head writer, respectively, Rau and Corbett have shepherded the series since its Star Wars Day 2021 debut on Disney+. Through the adventures of this Star Wars family — Hunter, Wrecker, Crosshair, Echo, Tech, and the young Omega — they’ve told stories of friendship, loss, and forgiveness, endearing a new cast of characters to a generation of fans in the process. In a wide-ranging mission debrief with StarWars.com, Rau and Corbett discuss the final season’s biggest moments, the dynamic between Crosshair and Omega, and their personal connections to the series finale….

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First Celebrity Guests Confirmed for Celebration Japan 2025

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Temuera Morrison, Anthony Daniels, and more are headed to the celebration in Japan.

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It’s official: the actors behind Boba Fett, C-3PO, and more are heading to Star Wars Celebration Japan next year!

Star Wars icon Anthony Daniels, the only actor to work on all 11 Star Wars feature films, will make an appearance. Daniels notably portrayed C-3PO in all three Skywalker saga trilogies.

Also from live action, Temuera Morrison will be there. Morrison first played Jango Fett and his army of clones in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, and has more recently brought Boba Fett back from the (presumed) dead on The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.

Lucasfilm’s own Doug Chiang, an Academy Award-winning artist who also serves as senior vice president and executive design director, will be there, too. Recently, Chiang has served as production designer on several Star Wars live-action series, including The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and Skeleton Crew….

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Star Wars: Hunters Release Date and Trailer

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Find out when the kinetic battle arena game will come to our galaxy, check out the new trailer, and read an exclusive interview with Zynga art director Dominic Estephane.

By Dan Brooks

There’s never been a game set in the galaxy far, far away quite like Star Wars: Hunters. A team-based battle arena shooter from Zynga and Lucasfilm Games, Star Wars: Hunters — arriving June 4 for Android, iOS, and Nintendo Switch, which StarWars.com is excited to reveal — features fast-paced multi-player clashes across maps inspired by classic locales, from Hoth to Endor. But Star Wars: Hunters also introduces a new element to Star Wars storytelling with its brand of arena combat, a form of fight-entertainment; combatants, or “Hunters,” even play their own characters, resulting in ridiculously fun takes on Star Wars archetypes. (Two stacked Jawas in a trench coat? A droid that thinks it’s a Jedi? This is indeed the game we’re looking for.) With the arrival of a new cinematic trailer and pre-registration now open, StarWars.com spoke with Zynga art director Dominic Estephane about the game’s inspired character designs, the large influence of pro wrestling on Star Wars: Hunters, and the just-revealed announcing duo….

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Behind the Scenes of the Latest Star Tours

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Walt Disney Imagineer Tom Fitzgerald gives StarWars.com a peek behind the curtain of the latest updates to the beloved Disney Parks attraction

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As Lando Calrissian once said, “You truly belong here with us among the clouds…of purrgil.”

OK, we may have added that last bit. Lately, some travelers aboard the Star Tours – The Adventures Continue Starspeeder have been finding themselves sailing through the air above Seatos, a new destination where a pod of purrgil puts you smack in the middle of a moment inspired by the Ahsoka series, now streaming on Disney+….

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Bad Batch Declassified: 5 Highlights from “Flash Strike”

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Clone Force 99 has arrived!

By Kristin Baver

Omega always believed her brothers would come to her rescue. And this week, the laser cannon of Imperial fire heralds the arrival of Clone Force 99. But first, Hunter, Wrecker, and Crosshair must survive the wilds of Wayland and dealing with Rampart. Meanwhile, Echo infiltrates the base and Omega discovers something familiar lurking inside Mount Tantiss. Here are five highlights from “Flash Strike.”…

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12 Star Wars Movie Poster Designs Found Only in Japan

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With Star Wars Celebration returning to Japan next year, we’re highlighting 12 Japanese Star Wars movie posters exhibiting designs used nowhere else in the world.

By Pete Vilmur

Many Star Wars collectors have long coveted items produced exclusively for fans and audiences in Japan, be it toys, food premiums, apparel items, or posters.

During the original trilogy era of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, marketing teams around the world were often given broad latitude to create Star Wars poster campaigns to suit local tastes and sensibilities, resulting in a rich variety of advertising imagery. This tradition shifted during the era of the prequels, however, when the same key advertising imagery was utilized across all markets around the globe, with the exception of — interestingly — the US, which did not enjoy the expanded poster campaigns seen in Europe and Asia. There has been a return in recent years to some regionally exclusive poster designs, including in Japan, again giving fans and collectors an opportunity to add a truly unique poster to their collection. As Star Wars Celebration heads back to Japan in 2025, StarWars.com is revisiting some of those rarities.

The following 12 Japanese Star Wars movie posters feature designs and/or illustrations used nowhere else in the world, making them especially appealing to fans wishing to collect each unique poster from a specific title (or every title!). You will notice that prequel posters are conspicuously absent from the list, as there were no poster graphics created exclusively for Japan during that era….

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Bad Batch Declassified: 5 Highlights from “Into the Breach”

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The search for Tantiss’ location heats up.

By Dan Brooks

If there are two things the Bad Batch are really good at, it’s breaking in — and breaking out.

With Omega in the custody of Dr. Hemlock at Mount Tantiss, her Clone Force 99 brothers are concerned only with getting her back. In “Into the Breach,” they come up with a plan to sneak aboard an Imperial station and steal the facility’s coordinates; difficult, to be sure, but the team thankfully has an ex-vice admiral up its collective sleeve. Yet as they devise this covert op, Omega proves to be ever the Batcher herself — already plotting as escape for herself and Hemlock’s other captive children. A great dual-caper tale, here are five highlights…

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The Hunt for Jedi Is on

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See covers and get first details on a new story from Rodney Barnes.

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“The Jedi cannot help who they are. Their compassion leaves a trail.”

The Grand Inquisitor’s words in Obi-Wan Kenobi form the cold heart of Marvel’s upcoming Star Wars: Inquisitors, which StarWars.com is excited to reveal. A new miniseries kicking off July 3 from writer Rodney Barnes and artist Ramon Rosanas, Inquisitors follows the Empire’s Jedi hunters as they narrow in on a new target: Tensu Run, a survivor of Order 66 looking to spread hope and rebuild the Jedi Order. He has won the attention of Darth Vader, who is determined to have Tensu killed at any cost. Check out Nick Bradshaw’s cover for issue #1, along with variants by Alex Maleev and the legendary Walt Simonson, in the gallery below….

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TIE Interceptor Revealed

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Get your first look at the redesign of the ship that launched the building set series for adults nearly 25 years ago!

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Get ready to defend the Death Star in your own recreation of the Battle of Endor.

To celebrate the LEGO Star Wars 25th anniversary, StarWars.com is excited to reveal the new LEGO Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series TIE Interceptor, arriving May 1 — just in time for May the 4th.

A redesign of the original TIE Interceptor building set that was part of the first launch of the Ultimate Collector Series in 2000, the new 1,931-piece craft measures over 12.5 inches high, 16 inches long and 13 inches wide. Impressive. Most impressive.

“Finally making the UCS TIE Interceptor again after so many years was so exciting for me,” Henrik Andersen, designer master at the LEGO Group, tells StarWars.com. “Compared to the last time I designed the UCS TIE Interceptor, I was now able to create a close-to-perfect replica of the movie prop. It’s always been one of my favorite Star Wars ships.”…

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Who’s Who on the Jedi Council

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If you don’t know Eeth Koth or Saesee Tinn, this cheat sheet to the Jedi Council is here to help.

By Kelly Knox

It’s been 25 years since we got our very first look at the Jedi Council in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. The 12 Jedi Masters on the Council oversee the thousands of knights, Padawans, and younglings in the Jedi Order in their service to the Galactic Republic. A simple matter for Jedi who have spent lifetimes mastering the ways of the Force, right?

You’d be surprised.

In John Jackson Miller’s new novel Star Wars: The Living Force, readers find out firsthand that red tape can be just as formidable as red-bladed lightsabers in the galaxy far, far away. Set just before the events of The Phantom Menace, the Jedi Masters on the Council handle Republic matters that are more bureaucratic than scholastic. Meetings, inventories, meetings, doling out knight and Padawan assignments, more meetings… the list of their responsibilities goes on and on…

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Bad Batch Declassified: 5 Highlights from “Juggernaut”

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An old foe becomes a tenuous ally in a desperate attempt to track down a way to Wayland.

By Kristin Baver

We’re not surprised to see Rampart is perfectly suited to prison orange. In the latest episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Hunter, Wrecker, and Crosshair reunite with the former Imperial Vice Admiral in a last-ditch effort to find their way to the mysterious world of Tantiss. Meanwhile, Omega has been delivered to the secret medical facility, and she’s about to discover her new reality is even worse than the last time she found herself imprisoned on Wayland. Here are five highlights from “Juggernaut.”…

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The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary Gift Guide

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Your focus determines your reality. Will you pick your favorite Chosen One or collect them all?

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This is so wizard!

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, StarWars.com has curated 10 of our favorite new products coming to a galaxy near you. From apparel and accessories to collectibles, toys, and books, there’s something for every Episode I fan. Roll the chance cube…

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Tales of Enlightenment – Exclusive Excerpt

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In a passage from “Missing Pieces,” author George Mann invites you to belly up to the bar on Jedha

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A mysterious Jedi has come to town.

As Phase III of Star Wars: The High Republic continues to unfold in books, comics, and with even more short stories in Star Wars Insider, in Star Wars: The High Republic: Tales of Enlightenment, we return to the age of exploration.

With a collection of six short stories from Phase II of the initiative, we go back to a simpler time in the Galactic Republic, decades before the Nihil began to terrorize entire star systems. And StarWars.com is excited to give you a peek inside the hardcover, published by Titan Comics and including a never-before-seen short story by bestselling author George Mann as well as interviews with a selection of authors from the initiative.

In “Missing Pieces,” we step into Enlightenment, a tapbar located in Jedha City, where every patron has a story to tell…

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Bad Batch Declassified: 5 Highlights from “The Harbinger”

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A fan favorite returns as mysteries deepen.

By Dan Brooks

Ventress faithful rejoice!

After delivering on their end of the bargain, the Bad Batch wait for Fennec Shand to bring them intel on M-count research, and why it has made Omega a target of the Empire. Except Shand doesn’t show; in her place comes someone unknown to the squad, but instantly recognizable to fans as Asajj Ventress, the former Sith assassin turned free agent, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars icon. Viewers were delighted to see her in the trailer for this season, and she impresses in “The Harbinger” as both a warrior and a guide for Omega. Here are five highlights…

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Ventress Strikes Back

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Actor Nika Futterman talks to StarWars.com about the return of her fan-favorite character in Star Wars: The Bad Batch

By Dan Brooks

There was unfinished business for Nika Futterman. As the voice of Asajj Ventress, the Sith assassin serving Count Dooku, she played one of the most important — and well-liked among fans — characters of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series. A dual-lightsaber-wielding menace, Ventress held her own against Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka Tano, before leaving the bad guys behind for free agency. But just as Asajj’s journey was taking a surprising turn, it all stopped when the series was cancelled.

“I thought we had gotten to a place in her story where it was going to continue on in this really interesting way,” Futterman tells StarWars.com. “I just thought, now that she’s going to be a bounty hunter, there’s just a world of possibility that she could be anything and do anything and become anything.”…

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