Star Wars fans may think they know Kylo Ren, but he’s more complex than you think!
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The Rey movie caused a lot of commotion online earlier this week! So let’s talk about everything that happened and answer some questions in our weekly Q&A!
0:00 Intro
8:07 Rey Movie Discussion
24:36 Will the Sith be in the Rey movie?
27:33 The Star Wars What If rumors
30:56 Will Grogu get an updated puppet for the movie?
33:18 Could Rae Sloane be in The Mandalorian and Grogu?
35:01 When will we see more about The Acolyte?
After the announcement of The Mandalorian and Grogu movie, of course Star Wars fans had a ton of questions. So for this week’s Q&A we’re reacting discussing the news, and answering those questions we saw pop up over and over again!
0:00 Introduction
5:31 Announcement discussion
19:38 What will The Mandalorian and Grogu be about?
22:20 Will Pedro Pascal show his face?
26:03 Will this movie bring together all the Mandoverse characters?
30:48 Will the movie use the Volume?
32:52 When will the movie come out?
38:08 Ahsoka season two discussion
39:25 The abandoned First Jedi movie discussion
What do we think of Taika Waititi’s statements about his Star Wars movie? What are our hopes and fears for the rest of The High Republic phase three? These questions and more answered in this week’s Q&A!
The Ahsoka series is almost here! It will almost certainly involve the hunt for Ezra Bridger, so here is everything you need to know about the character from his first appearance in Star Wars Rebels.
Lothal has already appeared in the trailers for the Ahsoka series. It’s a well known planet to Star Wars Rebels fans, but in case you’ve never seen that animated series, or if you simply want a refresher on in, here is everything you need to know about Lothal!
This video was created during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, Star Wars Rebels and Ahsoka wouldn’t exist.
While we were at San Diego Comic Con 2023, we got the chance to sit down with George Mann, Charles Soule, Cavan Scott, and Justina Ireland! I asked them about their upcoming work in Phase Three of the publishing initiative and they answered…as best as they could, anyway!
It’s the fortieth anniversary of Return of the Jedi! To celebrate, here is everything I think is GREAT about the movie! Let me know what you love about it in the comments!
Captain Pellaeon is in live action!! I am so psyched to see the character in The Mandalorian, and likely in future Star Wars series as well. Here is a quick rundown about who he is and why fans are excited by this Imperial officer!
Dr. Lydia Kang, author of the new High Republic book Cataclysm, discusses stepping into Phase Two of the High Republic initiative and pushing the Jedi to their limits in the golden age of the Republic!
Rick Famuyiwa on Helping to Helm The Mandalorian Season 3
The executive producer and episodic director on the Disney+ series takes us back to the birth of Grogu and looks ahead as Season 3 continues to unfold.
Rick Famuyiwa feels like he’s graduated. After joining The Mandalorian in Season 1, where he directed “Chapter 2: The Child,” — among the first people in the world to discover the character that would come to be known as Grogu, — he’s ascended to the role of executive producer, alongside creator and executive producer Jon Favreau and executive producer Dave Filoni, and director of three episodes in Season 3 of the Disney+ series.
“I mean, it’s both exciting and unbelievable,” Famuyiwa tells StarWars.com. As a child, the first film Famuyiwa saw in theaters was Star Wars, so being invited to contribute to the galaxy far, far away has brought his fandom full circle. “I still, to this moment, go back and go, you know, ‘You had no idea when you went to watch this movie as a kid that somehow you would be part of telling a Star Wars story.’ It’s still kind of mind blowing to me that it happened,” he adds with a laugh. “It’s been a part of my life so long. What I loved about it was the instant connection it gave me to a lot of other people that loved the world.”…
Over the past two decades, the downfall of the Republic had been well-documented in a variety of movies, television shows, comics, and books. In Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, for instance, we first saw the covert holograms of Darth Sidious ordering Order 66, Palpatine declaring himself Emperor in front of the Senate, and the construction of the first Death Star. In Star Wars: The Clone Wars, we learned more about inhibitor chips, the plans for the clone army, and more of the Sith lord’s machinations.
And now, in Star Wars: The Bad Batch, there is a previously un-glimpsed look at what comes immediately after: the first days of the Galactic Empire. It is told with fascinating moments of world-building and a deeper look into the larger galaxy. As its second season unfolds on Disney+, StarWars.com now takes a look at The Bad Batch and the insights that it has brought so far into that tumultuous time…
The Mandalorian season three is almost here! So today let’s look back at the amazing second season of the series and celebrate everything that made it great!
For the time being, the next Star Wars film is scheduled for a December 2025 theatrical release. The previously slated move, Rogue Squadron, won’t be meeting its 2023 window and has instead been shelved. Given the current trend at Lucasfilm, the odds of a movie being ready in three years’ time almost seems like an impossibility.
It’s been abundantly clear for years that internal turmoil has stalled the film development process for the company since the completion of the sequel trilogy. This was confirmed last week when Lucasfilm SVP Michelle Rejwan was demoted. The producer was tasked with overseeing Rogue Squadron’s development – in addition to other new films – and was relieved of her duties following too many creative difficulties.
Now three years removed from the last silver-screen experience, Star Wars fans are itching to get back into theaters for a journey into the galaxy far, far away. That time is still a few years away, at best, and it’s not one that Lucasfilm is particularly looking forward to. With so much riding on the next theatrical title, Lucasfilm executives are actually worried about the franchise’s next steps…