Andor season 2 speaks to a hunger for a deeper, more resonant Star Wars
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 25, 2025 | Feature, News, TV
With spoilers, we look at how Andor season 2 brings a thematic depth to Star Wars that makes its flaws easier to overlook....
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Star Wars | New series in the works from the showrunner of Lost
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 22, 2025 | News
Lost showrunner Carlton Cuse, along with his son Nick, are working on a new Star Wars series for Disney/Lucasfilm, it's been announced....
Star Wars | Original 1977 version being screened at the BFI's Film On Film Festival
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 08, 2025 | News
This June's Film On Film Festival will include an original 1977 print of Star Wars, shown on the big screen for the first time in decades....
Star Wars: Underworld | Producer Rick McCallum on the "dark, sexy, violent" TV series that never was
by Ryan Lambie | Mar 13, 2025 | News, TV
Long before its purchase by Disney, Lucasfilm was working on a TV series, Star Wars: Underworld. Producer Rick McCallum has talked about why it never...
Alan Dean Foster and a legendary novelist’s life in film
by Ryan Lambie | Mar 13, 2025 | Feature, News
Author Alan Dean Foster talks to us about his connections to some of the most important sci-fi films of all time, including Star Wars, Star Trek,...
Why aren't film scores catchy anymore?
by Daniel Hallett | Mar 07, 2025 | Feature
What happened to the ear-worm film scores that pervaded popular culture in the'70s, 80s and '90s? Daniel Hallett looks into where modern scores are...
Kathleen Kennedy plays down Lucasfilm retirement talk, but confirms succession planning
by Simon Brew | Feb 28, 2025 | News
Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy responds to speculation about retirement: succession planning is underway, but she's not retiring....
Lucasfilm | Kathleen Kennedy to retire as president in 2025
by Ryan Lambie | Feb 25, 2025 | News
Star Wars producer and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy is reportedly planning to retire later in 2025....
The Substance | Director Coralie Fargeat's Star Wars film from 1993 is a thing of beauty
by Ryan Lambie | Feb 18, 2025 | News
In 1993, the future director of The Substance, Coralie Fargeat, made a Star Wars fan film. Over 30 years later, it's now available to watch online......
Star Wars | George Nolfi on his New Jedi Order screenplay (exclusive)
by Ryan Lambie | Feb 03, 2025 | News
Writer-director George Nolfi talks exclusively to us about his screenwriting work on Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's upcoming Star Wars movie....
Star Wars | Ryan Gosling reportedly in talks to star in Shawn Levy's film
by Ryan Lambie | Jan 22, 2025 | News
A new report suggests that Ryan Gosling is about to star in Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy's Star Wars film....
Skeleton Crew | The Star Wars series that would have worked even better as a movie
by Ryan Lambie | Jan 16, 2025 | Feature, TV
As Star Wars adventure Skeleton Crew reaches its climax, we wonder whether it would have been more successful as a movie... Spoilers ahead....
When film characters vanish into black holes and vortexes
by Ryan Lambie | Jan 15, 2025 | Feature
From 2001: A Space Odyssey onwards, cinema has offered up a succession of black holes and vortexes. We take a look into them....
Star Wars 3D | The stereoscopic six-film saga that never happened
by Ryan Lambie | Jan 14, 2025 | Feature
Twenty years ago, George Lucas was talking about remastering his six Star Wars films in 3D. To date, only The Phantom Menace has ever emerged....
Star Wars | Lucasfilm planning a Knights Of The Old Republic TV show
by Dan Cooper | Jan 06, 2025 | News
Much-loved Star Wars videogame Knights Of The Old Republic, about the early years of the Jedi, could soon become a TV series....
Star Wars | The scruffy-looking joy of A New Hope’s unrestored theatrical print
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 10, 2024 | Feature, News
A New Hope and the rest of the Star Wars trilogy may be preserved and pristine, but there’s something wonderfully tactile about the untouched t...
Denis Villeneuve rules himself out of making a Star Wars movie, disses Return Of The Jedi
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 28, 2024 | News
Dune director Denis Villeneuve loves Star Wars, but not so much that he'd make one of his own. Also, he's still disappointed by Return of The Jedi....
Star Wars | Guess what? Disney's pulled another film from the schedule!
by Dan Cooper | Nov 18, 2024 | News
Widely believed to be the troubled Star Wars: New Jedi Order film, Disney and Lucasfilm has yanked a film from its schedule....
Star Wars | Multiple productions are vying to feature Daisy Ridley's Rey, says new report
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 13, 2024 | News
Lucasfilm wants to continue Rey's story, as played by Daisy Ridley, with parallel Star Wars productions said to be writing plots around her character....
Star Wars | New reports suggest Simon Kinberg's working on Episodes X, XI and XII, but they could be years away
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 11, 2024 | News
Writer-producer Simon Kinberg is working on a new Star Wars trilogy, said to be Episodes X-XII, but reports also highlight how far off it's likely to...
Star Wars | Lucasfilm is exceptionally good at not making movies
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 08, 2024 | Feature, News
With The Mandalorian And Grogu still over a year away, a look at some of the Star Wars films Lucasfilm hasn’t made since 2019....
Star Wars | Lucasfilm is making a new trilogy (in theory)
by Dan Cooper | Nov 08, 2024 | News
Lucasfilm has put three more Star Wars films into gestation, and who knows? Some of these might actually get made....
Star Wars | More problems as New Jedi Order film goes on hold
by Dan Cooper | Sep 23, 2024 | News
The ongoing problems of getting Star Wars films moving this time centre on New Jedi Order, which would have brought Daisy Ridley back....
Harrison Ford reportedly in talks to star in JJ Abrams' upcoming movie
by Ryan Lambie | Aug 19, 2024 | News
Super 8 and The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams has a mystery movie in the works, which could eventually star Harrison Ford......
Star Wars | Shawn Levy's film will be a standalone entry
by Dan Cooper | Aug 07, 2024 | News
Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy's Star Wars film won't be connected to the mainline saga, he's revealed....
Star Wars | Original Y-wing model and Leia Bikini go up for auction
by Ryan Lambie | Jul 11, 2024 | News
An original Y-wing filming miniature from 1977's Star Wars: A New Hope and Leia's bikini from Return Of The Jedi are up for auction this month....
Patty Jenkins on Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Wonder Woman 3
by Dan Cooper | May 07, 2024 | News
Patty Jenkins discusses the end of one project and the beginning of another as she gives an update on the status of her planned Star Wars movie....
Star Wars | 25 years have been kind to The Phantom Menace
by A J Black | May 07, 2024 | Feature
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is back on the big screen - and through today's eyes, fares a little better....
Podcast | Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker (2019) and Road House (2024)
by Simon Brew | May 06, 2024 | Podcasts
The end of the Skywalker saga in Star Wars. A different kind of saga in the months leading up to the release of Road House 2024......
Star Wars Outlaws | Players will have to pay extra to unlock Jabba mission
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 16, 2024 | Gaming, News
Ubisoft's single-player Star Wars Outlaws will have a season pass, meaning players will have to pay more money to unlock a Jabba the Hutt mission....
Star Wars: Dawn Of The Jedi movie adds another writer
by Simon Brew | Apr 08, 2024 | News
James Mangold will be working with Andor writer Beau Willimon, as he looks to bring Star Wars: Dawn Of The Jedi to the big screen....
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron | Patty Jenkins is back in the director's chair
by Dan Cooper | Mar 14, 2024 | News
Lucasfilm's space dogfighting opus Star Wars: Rogue Squadron re-recruits Patty Jenkins to direct. More here:...
