Experience the classic Star Wars film with a theatrical re-release beginning in April of 2027
By StarWars.com Team
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.
Switch on your targeting computer and keep your eyes on StarWars.com for more details, including when and where to buy tickets to this once-in-a-generation event.
The vehicle from Star Wars: A New Hope is among over 40,000 pieces creator George Lucas has collected over 50 years.
By StarWars.com Team
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….
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!…
Exclusive new looks at beloved characters, pages from Dave Filoni’s sketchbook, maquettes and models from the Lucasfilm Archives, and more!
By StarWars.com Team
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….
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….
The critically acclaimed and fan-favorite Star Wars series is also nominated for guest acting, production design, costumes and more!
By StarWars.com Team
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.”…
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….
The critically acclaimed series is filled with incredible monologues that inspire hope, call-out evil, and remind us what the Rebellion is all about.
By Brandon Wainerdi
“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…
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….
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…
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.”…
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…
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…
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.
By StarWars.com Team
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…
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…
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!…
The actors speak to StarWars.com about the motivations and mindset of their characters in Andor’s last story arc.
By Amy Richau
Their operatives “have friends everywhere,” but it’s the complex bond between Luthen Rael and Kleya Marki that helps deliver vital intel to the Rebellion.
After one of Luthen’s long-time undercover ISB assets, Lonni Jung, sends out an emergency call, things start to go downhill fast for Luthen and Kleya in Andor’s tenth episode. After years of living double lives secretly working against the Empire while publicly running a gallery in Coruscant, “Make It Stop” gives a backstory to Luthen and Kleya’s relationship intercut with Kleya’s gut-wrenching actions after Luthen makes the ultimate sacrifice to avoid Imperial interrogation.
Throughout both of Andor’s seasons, Luthen was shown to be a cunning, and at times ruthless, rebel insurgent, willing to risk his life and the lives of others for the larger goal of taking down the Empire. But Skarsgård was never shocked by his character’s behavior…
Showrunner and creator Tony Gilroy shares his thoughts on Season 2.
By Brandon Wainerdi
Tony Gilroy is the first to admit that he doesn’t know everything about Star Wars.
“I’ve said it before, but my knowledge of Star Wars is incredibly deep for a five-year period, and then thin everywhere else,” Gilroy says. “Those limitations, however, are really helpful – the reason I think the show is good is because we’ve known where we’re going to end.”
And now, with its second and final season, Andor A Star Wars Story has officially reached that end, leading directly into the events of 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – a movie which Gilroy co-wrote.
StarWars.com spent some time with Andor’s mastermind and multi-hyphenate showrunner to break down each of these arcs, and to glean a little bit more about the journeys of Cassian, his Ferrixian friends, and the host of allies and enemies they’ve met along the way…
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Revenge of the Sith, StarWars.com looks back at a golden age of online Star Wars film promotion, when Lucasfilm’s Pablo Hidalgo reported in from the set of the final prequel film.
By Pablo Hidalgo
Ah, the memories!!
It was every fan’s dream to spend the summer on the set of Episode III. Beginning in May of 2003 — a full two years before the release of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith — StarWars.com Hyperspace members lived the next-best thing through the daily journal of the life of the production of a Star Wars film.
In celebration of the film’s 20th anniversary, StarWars.com takes a fond look back…
Looking Back at Episode III Online
It was an audacious idea; I can’t take credit for it, but I was tasked to execute it. It completely altered my trajectory at Lucasfilm as well as my relationship with Star Wars and made Revenge of the Sith a unique and major experience in my life. Looking back, 20 years after the release of that chapter, I am still amazed at what we pulled off.
Back at the beginning of 2003, my title was “Internet Content Developer.” If asked, I’d simply say I was a writer at StarWars.com — one of two at the time. It was a very small operation, and the internet of 2003 was a very different place compared to being online today. Text was king. Video was a chore. Information was one-way, and interactions were rare and hardly social…
Actors Denise Gough and Kyle Soller were over the (that’s no) moon about their character’s dark arcs in the second season.
By Ethan Sacks
In the end, they were Death Star-crossed lovers.
Romantics may have hoped that Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) and Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) would find a fairy tale ending during Season 2 of Andor, but the Imperial power couple were destined for more of a Shakespearean tragedy.
“We were fearful, ‘Are they just going to be in love?,” Gough tells StarWars.com. “[Creator and executive producer] Tony (Gilroy) laughed at me when I dared to suggest he would write something so juvenile.”
Instead, Gilroy and the writers crafted a deep saga with a lot to say about the moral toll of living under an authoritarian regime, a cruel normalcy that is as destructive as any planet-obliterating battle station. Imperial Security Bureau Supervisor Meero and ISB civil servant Karn were always doomed: Their first love was an Empire incapable of loving them back.
“The fact that there’s this bureaucratic element of the Empire was so unexpected,” says Soller. “I was like, ‘okay, that’s just amazing. I would never think that there are just people pushing papers. That’s exactly Syril’s story: He could be anybody and that’s what’s most terrifying, I think.”…
As the three-episode finale of Andor Season 2 unfolds, a great rebel falls and Cassian Andor prepares to become the leader we know in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
By StarWars.com Team
In Andor, Cassian Andor continues the path toward his heroic rebel destiny. With all episodes now streaming on Disney+, join us as StarWars.com digs into the making of a leader and a burgeoning rebellion poised to take down the Empire.
We often think of Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) and Bail Organa (Benjamin Bratt) among the first architects of the Rebel Alliance. And while these politicians have surely earned their place in the pantheon of heroes risking everything to bring an end to the tyrannical rule of the Empire, their fledgling rebellion may never have left the senate building if not for one man: Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård).
Long ago, Luthen sacrificed calm, kindness, kinship, and his own peace to forge ahead disrupting the stranglehold of Imperial rule. And this week, with Imperial Security Bureau Supervisor Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) knocking on his door, the story of Andor comes to a final conclusion, clearing the board to bring us to the brink of the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story….
Watch the special live stream event for a chance to see your questions answered on YouTube May 13 ahead of the Season 2 finale on Disney+ that evening.
By StarWars.com Team
It’s almost time to send Cassian Andor off as he takes his final steps to Scarif in the Andor Season 2 finale next week.
To mark the occasion, the end of a five year journey for the cast and crew behind the critically-acclaimed and beloved Star Wars series, Star Wars YouTube will host a special LIVE Q&A — Andor Season 2 with Tony Gilroy & Diego Luna — covering the momentous events of Season 2.
Join creator Tony Gilroy and series star Diego Luna (Cassian Andor himself), Tuesday, May 13 at 12 pm ET / 9 am PT as they’re joined by special guests Denise Gough (Dedra Meero), Kyle Soller (Syril Karn), Elizabeth Dulau (Kleya Marki), Genevieve O’Reilly (Mon Mothma) and Adria Arjona (Bix Caleen) to talk about the journey so far.
“I think the banality of evil runs through the entire show,” Gilroy tells StarWars.com. “Season 1 is about the education and radicalization of Cassian, about the making of a revolutionary. Season 2 is…you could call it the ‘Winds of War.’ It’s a whole bunch of characters that hopefully you really care about and suddenly there’s that inevitable moment where things have just gone too far and the inertia of the Rebellion and Empire conflict is too strong. It’s coming. There’s no way to stop it. And I think it’s about a lot of people, ordinary people, being pressured by this unstoppable force of war that’s coming.”…
An inside look into how the Imperial senator’s secret life as a rebel was revealed on screen
By Amy Richau
After playing her for more than two decades, Genevieve O’Reilly knows Mon Mothma better than anyone. That expertise shows through in her nuanced portrayal of the rebel senator in Andor Season 2. And much like her character, behind the scenes, O’Reilly advocated for what she felt was right when it came to two of Mothma’s most significant story moments this season, working with creator and executive producer Tony Gilroy to ensure viewers saw the intimate pain of Mothma’s personal sacrifice and the public pronouncement of her declaration of war against Emperor Palpatine, both in their full glory.
An emotionally fraught wedding at the start of the season and Mon Mothma’s epic final speech in the Imperial Senate chamber in the latest episode took center stage in Andor Season 2. Now with the final three episodes arriving next week to mark the series finale, Genevieve O’Reilly speaks with StarWars.com about returning to play Mon Mothma during some of the most challenging and dangerous moments of her life.
“I’ve never done anything like that before,” O’Reilly says about the structure of Andor’s second season. “Each three episodes jumping a year, almost like a window into life for a day or weekend. A slice of life.”…
Delve into the latest episodes of Andor Season 2, the conflict on Ghorman comes to a head and Mon Mothma is forced to make a career-ending choice 2 years before Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
By Kristin Baver
In Andor, Cassian Andor continues the path toward his heroic rebel destiny. With new episodes now streaming on Disney+, join us as StarWars.com digs into the making of a leader and a burgeoning rebellion poised to take down the Empire.
“Rebellions are built on hope.”
In the future, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) will utter this same phrase to a skeptical Jyn Erso in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. But today, it’s a young man named Thela who imparts the wisdom on Andor before a massacre turns all eyes in the galaxy to Ghorman.
In the latest three-episode arc of Andor Season 2, Cassian takes on a new alias and a deeply personal mission — to assassinate Imperial Security Bureau Supervisor Dedra Meero (Denise Gough). But the Empire has been patiently plotting for years, and before Cassian can pull the trigger, Meero will give the order that will incite the Ghorman Massacre and force Senator Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) to take a stand on the Senate floor with a speech that unequivocally makes her an enemy of the Empire….
Rewatch the deleted scenes from Episode 3 available as extras on Disney+!
By Amy Richau
It’s time to dive into some deleted and extended scenes from Revenge of the Sith after your 20th anniversary rewatch — but stay out of that Mustafar lava!
Whether you’re one of the fans who watched Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith in the theater for its triumphant anniversary screenings or you’re enjoying the film from the comfort of your own home, watching the deleted and extended scenes from the film on Disney+ can give you additional insight into the epic end of the prequel trilogy.
While some deleted scenes were fully completed, many had incomplete effects, or included temporary animation in some parts of the frame….
Get the inside scoop about the fan favorite Dathomirian apprentice and assassin, straight from the voice of Ventress, Nika Futterman
By Brandon Wainerdi
Dooku’s dark disciple is back and, of course, she’s bringing her iconic voice actor along with her.
Ever since 2008’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie, Asajj Ventress has been brought to life by the incredible Nika Futterman. Futterman, who has voiced many characters in the galaxy, including Shaeeah Lawquane and Sy Snootles, has always felt especially connected to the Sith apprentice, as she relates to StarWars.com: “I feel like I have become her. We are one.”
But since the end of The Clone Wars, Ventress did not appear again in the animated shows for many years. “I was under the covers for ten years, crying, saying, ‘Why did it end! We didn’t even finish my story!’” Futterman says.
One of the ways that fans experienced some “closure” for her character’s story was in the acclaimed Star Wars: Dark Disciple, a canon novel written by Christie Golden and based on eight, never released Clone Wars episodes. The book traced the relationship of Ventress and Jedi Knight Quinlan Vos, and ended with Ventress sacrificing herself for the greater good. But now she’s back… and Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld will help explain how…
Delve into the latest three episodes of Andor Season 2, as the rebels and the Empire turn their eyes to the Ghorman front 3 years before Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
By Kristin Baver
In Andor, Cassian Andor continues the path toward his heroic rebel destiny. With the first six episodes now streaming on Disney+, join us as StarWars.com digs into the making of a leader and a burgeoning rebellion poised to take down the Empire.
Spoiler warning: This article discusses story details and plot points from key Season 2 episodes of Andor, “Ever Been to Ghorman?”, “I Have Friends Everywhere”, and “What a Festive Evening” as well as previous episodes of the series.
Time marches on, bringing Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and the rebels closer to declaring all-out-war against the Empire on Scarif.
In the latest three-episode installment of Andor Season 2, set in BBY 3, the crisis on Ghorman begins to heat up as Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) sends both Cassian and trusted agents Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay) and Cinta Kaz (Varada Sethu) to assess the brewing rebellion on the frontlines. And while Wilmon Paak (Muhannad Bhaier) learns what it takes to survive in the trenches from none other than Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker), Senator Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) continues to fight through diplomacy, facing Director Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) with as much decorum as she can muster…
The actor recently sat down to celebrate the film’s anniversary and return to theaters!
By Jade Fabello
When Hayden Christensen received the call that he had first been cast as the pivotal Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, he walked into his living room with a look of disbelief. His roommate, who knew that he was waiting on the call, could tell by his smile that he had good news. Christensen proceeded to light up an imaginary lightsaber while his roommate put on the soundtrack to Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and the pair clashed their invisible swords, traipsing around the room with childlike joy.
While he can’t say for certain to what extent, Christensen knew from the jump that something as big as Star Wars would follow him for a long time no matter what. He recalls the shared hope of everyone involved in creating something that would last in the culture for a long time. Now, as Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith marks its 20th anniversary and returns to theaters for a limited time — proving the film’s lasting appeal with one of the biggest re-release opening weekends in history with an estimated $42.2 million in ticket sales worldwide — Christensen looks back fondly on his many memories playing the character…
The actor talks about the importance of family, how Andor copes with loss, and why the Empire makes the galaxy’s most uncomfortable outfits.
By Kelly Knox
Diego Luna is a fan of your Andor headcanon.
Season 2 of Andor jumps through time, kicking off with a story that begins one year after the explosive events on Ferrix. While we might not know everything that happened during those months, Andor creator and executive producer Tony Gilroy leaves it to the audience to fill in the blanks. And Cassian Andor himself agrees the story belongs as much to the fans as the storytellers.
“There’s a lot of mystery involved that makes it more interesting for viewers, because you can almost start creating your own backstory,” Luna says. “Now you know these characters, and you can imagine what happened there. These time jumps are a beautiful way to approach storytelling, where this story belongs to you as much as it belongs to us.”
Now that the first arc of Andor’s second season is on Disney+, Luna talks to StarWars.com about where Cassian Andor’s journey has taken him so far, the losses he’s endured, and why he still has a long way to go…
Costume designer Michael Wilkinson returns to the Star Wars galaxy with insights on dressing Cassian Andor, Mon Mothma, and more.
By Jade Fabello
The second season of Andor, which premiered this week on Disney+, continues to tell deeply human stories with gripping portrayals of the political clash between the growing rebellion and the Imperial regime. With such rich and intense subject matter, each aspect of the show had to be intricately crafted, with deep world-building and thematic storytelling, right down to each stitch sewn in the costume department.
According to Oscar-nominated costume designer Michael Wilkinson, the aim for Season 1 was to create a language for Star Wars that was grounded, visceral, and immediate. Rather than an action-oriented approach, the team working behind the scenes on production focused on creating a high-quality drama for adult audiences. Buoyed by the incredible reception for the show’s first season, the crew has gone even further in Season 2, using costuming details to help create nuanced and three-dimensional characters.
“We applied our thinking from Season 1 to Season 2, which was that everything had to look the way that it did for a reason. Not just ’cause it looked cool or it was Star Wars-y,” Wilkinson tells StarWars.com. “It had to really resonate and be authentic to the characters where they were at in the story. [Showrunner] Tony Gilroy is such an incredible storyteller. His sense of creating a rich and elaborate story involving many different characters is inspiring. When I read all the scripts for Season 2, there was so much costume gold in there.”
Season 2 brings a wealth of new planets, cultures, and aesthetics to the world of Andor. As the season unfolds, we’ll take a look at the incredible care and effort that went into the costumes that Wilkinson and the team brought to the screen….
