2+ week, 5+ day ago (209+ words) There's'been quite a few rumors relating to Shawn Levy's Star Wars: Starfighter doing the rounds since Disney announced that cameras were rolling on the project earlier this year, with some claiming that the movie will directly connect to the sequel trilogy and Lucasfilm's future plans for Rey and the "New Jedi Order." While Starfighter might well include some ties to the wider Star Wars universe, Levy has now clarified that his film will be a standalone story. Though Starfighter may not be a direct sequel to any previous Star Wars film, we do know that the movie will take place several years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker. Ryan Gosling (Barbie, Drive) is set to star alongside'Flynn Gray (Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2), Matt Smith (House of the Dragon), Mia Goth (Infinity Pool), Aaron Pierre (Lanterns), Simon Bird (The…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago (366+ words) Though the Disney+ Ahsoka series mainly focused on the adventures of the titular former Jedi (Rosario Dawson), it also served as a live-action continuation of the animated Star Wars Rebels show, reintroducing the likes of Hera Syndulla, Sabine Wren, and Ezra Bridger. Rebels fans seemed fairly happy with the show, but some took issue with certain plot points and character changes. Most of the backlash seemed to stem from the decision to make Sabine Ahsoka's Padawan (trainee Jedi), since the Mandalorian explosives expert had already established herself as a formidable warrior in her own right. As it turns out, Rebels writer and exec producer Henry Gilroy was never'on board with making Sabine a Jedi. "It was absolutely not the plan," Gilroy tells the Protector of Concord Dawn podcast. "We really felt that not only did it step on Ezra's story,…...

11+ hour, 34+ min ago (1616+ words) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was largely considered a disappointment by fans of this Galaxy Far, Far Away, and it's not hard to see why. Going into damage control after some of Rian Johnson's more divisive creative decisions, the 2019 movie tried to make everyone happy but failed miserably to do so in a big way." Cramming in too much story and a lot of fan service, it marked a disappointing end to the Skywalker Saga. However, before J.J. Abrams returned, it was Jurassic World helmer Colin Trevorrow who was tasked with ending this story." His Episode IX would have been vastly different; there was no Emperor Palpatine, no redemption for Ben Solo, and a very different reveal about Rey's parents. While Trevorrow's screenplay has never been released in its entirety, we've scoured the internet for everything that is known to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago (223+ words) "Take my money! I only know what I read about it online. I didn't know anything about it, but who knows how things are developed these days? But man, I will watch Driver in anything, but I would love to see him play that character again." Ultimately, his comments are very surface-level, which is understandable, given that he's being'asked about a scrapped project from a franchise he'contributed to. Nevertheless, Johnson's The Last Jedi was arguably the one responsible for'a lot of'Kylo Ren's character development. As such,'it's interesting to get his thoughts on a project that would have starred the fallen Jedi.' When speaking to AP, Driver revealed that, while Lucasfilm was excited about the project, it was ultimately scrapped when pitched to Disney CEO Bob Iger and Disney Co-Chairman Alan Bergman: "We presented the script to Lucasfilm. They loved…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago (940+ words) Star Wars creator George Lucas shocked the world when he decided to sell Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012, but it had been a long time since Revenge of the Sith was released in 200,5 and fans were eager to return to this Galaxy Far, Far Away. A press release promised the filmmaker's story outlines would be used for a new sequel trilogy, and ultimately, that didn't happen. Since then, Kathleen Kennedy has forged ahead with five movies, several TV shows, video games, and books and comics which have expanded on Lucas's work in a big way." The question is, what does Lucas think about the Star Wars sequels? For that matter, how does he rate the spin-off movies and what we've seen from Lucasfilm on Disney+? Well, we've rounded up everything he's ever said about all of them and, honestly, the legendary…...