by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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TRAILERS:
From YouTube: The official trailer for "The Mandalorian" Season Two.
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NOVELS - From IndieWire: Beloved "Star Wars" novelist, Alan Dean Foster, talks about being asked to remove a budding romance between Finn and Rey that he was setting up in his novelization of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
BOBA FETT - From StarWars: There is more news on the recently announced Disney+ series, "The Book of Boba Fett," which will be executive produced by Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, and Robert Rodriguez.
From Deadline: Previously unannounced, "The Book of Boba Fett" will be a new Disney+ "Star Wars" series. A spinoff of "The Mandalorian," the series is set to debut December 2021.
COMICS - From BleedingCool: Marvel Comics' "Star Wars: The High Republic #1" has sold out three weeks before its release date. Marvel has reportedly ordered a second printing.
OBIT - From CinemaBlend: The English actor Jeremy Bulloch has died at the age of 75, Thursday, December 17, 2020. Bulloch played the bounty hunter, "Boba Fett," in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, appearing in "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of Jedi." While Bulloch wore Boba's costume, the late American actor, Jason Wingreen ("All in the Family," "Archie Bunker's Place") provided Boba's voice.
GEORGE LUCAS - From IndieWire: Legendary film director, Francis Ford Coppola ("The Godfather"), says that he feels sad that "Star Wars" dominated George Lucas' career.
OBI-WAN - From Deadline: Hayden Christensen will return as Darth Vader in the developing Disney+ series, "Obi-Wan Kenobi."
ROGUE SQUADRON - From Deadline: Patty Jenkins, the director of the "Wonder Woman" film franchise, will direct a new "Star Wars" film, "Rogue Squadron." This will be the first "Star Wars" feature directed by a female director.
OBIT - From StarWars: David Prowse, the actor who gave the physical performance of Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, died this weekend. He was 85.
REVENGE OF THE SITH - From IGN: Star Wars Stunt Co-Ordinator Selling Lightsabers From Revenge of the Sith
HIGH REPUBLIC - From WeGotThisCovered: A preview of pages from Marvel Comics' "Star Wars: The High Republic" reveals a look at a younger Yoda.
JOHN BOYEGA - From Deadline: John Boyega Had A “Transparent, Honest” Phone Call With Kathleen Kennedy After "Star Wars" Race Comments
HIGH REPUBLIC - From Previews: In its first contribution to Lucasfilm’s "Star Wars: The High Republic" publishing campaign spanning comics and prose, IDW announced the February 3rd, 2021 launch of "Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures," an ongoing comic book series set 200 years before the live action film continuity.
PREQUEL TRILOGY - From IndieWire: An upcoming book, "Star Wars Archives: 1999-2005," reveals stunning new details of George Lucas' plans for the sequel trilogy (Episodes 7 to 9). This includes resurrected Darth Maul and making him the "godfather of crime" in the universe.
FUTURE - From IndieWire: Leslye Headland, creator of Netflix's "Russian Doll," says that her Disney+ TV series will be set in a part of the "Star Wars" timeline that fans "don't know much about."
JOHN BOYEGA - From THR: This wide-ranging article features interviews with actors John Boyega and Letitia Wright, and Oscar-winning filmmaker, Steve McQueen. In the interview, Boyega says that he met with a high-ranking Disney executive (that he did not name) about his criticisms of the way "people of color" were treated in the recent "Star Wars" trilogy.
THE MANDALORIAN - From Deadline: SPOILER - Actor Temuera Morrison makes a cameo appearance in Episode 1 of "The Mandalorian" Season Two. Morrison played Jango Fett, Boba Fett's father, in "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones." Rumor says he will play Boba in "The Mandalorian."
OBI-WAN - From MensHealth: Ewan McGregor Wore His Obi-Wan Robes on the Set of The Mandalorian
MANGA - From ScreenRant: Yen Press has released a preview of its upcoming manga-graphic novel, "Leia: Princess of Alderaan."
HIGH REPUBLIC - From BleedingCool: A "High Republic" story written by author Charles Soule will be serialized in "Star Wars Insider," likely beginning in December 2020.
ROGUE ONE SPINOFF - From Deadline: Director Toby Haynes ("Black Mirror") has replaced Tony Gilroy as director of the first three episodes of the Disney+ "Rogue One" spinoff.
COMICS - From BleedingCool: IDW will adapt author Greg Rucka's 2015 Star Wars junior novel, "Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure," as a comic book miniseries.
MERCHANDISE - From People: Shoe maker and Adidas and "Star Wars" launch a fur-covered "Chewbacca" themed sneaker which you can buy at Adidas.com
OBI-WAN - From ET: In an "Entertainment Tonight," actor Ewan McGregor talks about his "Long Way Down" and "Long Way Up" series. Concerning what we really want to know about, the Disney+ "Obi-Wan," he says they will start filming spring of next year and that there plans are for one standalone season only.
JOHN BOYEGA - From GQUK: Here is the John Boyega feature/interview that has caused quite a stir.
THE MANDALORIAN - From Esquire: George Lucas cradles Baby Yoda - with social media reactions.
ROGUE ONE - From Deadline: Actress Adria Arjona will join star Diego Luna (Cassian Andor) in the Disney+ "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" prequel series.
LEIA - From io9: An upcoming book, "Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection" (Oct. 20th), will have details about Leia's lightsaber from "The Rise of Skywalker."
GEORGE LUCAS - From Deadline: Tom Pollock was a studio executive and an entertainment lawyer. He died at the age of 77, Sat., Aug. 1st. He pulled off what is likely Hollywood's all-time greatest deal - the one that got George Lucas sequel and merchandising rights to "Star Wars."
THE MANDALORIAN - From THR: Disney+/Lucasfilm's hit series, "The Mandalorian," received 15 nominations at the 2020 / 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, including "Outstanding Drama Series."
THE HIGH REPUBLIC - From THR: The new "Star Wars" publishing initiative, "The High Republic," will connect to existing "Star Wars canon."
BAD BATCH - From Variety: Disney+ has made a series order for the animated series, "Star Wars: Bad Batch." It is a spinoff of the long-running animated series, "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," and will follow an elite and experimental unit of clone troops.
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - From Variety: For the first time since 1997, "The Empire Strikes Back" is back on top of the weekend box office. Back in 1997, the film was re-released under the "Special Edition" banner and included new scenes and changes to the film. Reissued again, this time as "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back," the film is estimated to gross between $400,000 and $500,000 in this post-COVID-19 theatrical box office.
THE MANDALORIAN - From StarWars: StarWars.com reveals an extensive publishing program of books and titles for all ages based on the Disney+ series, "The Mandalorian." This will include comic books from both Marvel Comics and IDW Publishing.
THE HIGH REPUBLIC - From IGN: Read the First Chapter of "Star Wars: The High Republic - Light of the Jedi" by Charles Soule.
THE HIGH REPUBLIC - From YahooEntertainment: New Star Wars book reveals why The High Republic fell – and kicks off a new era of stories
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - From YahooEntertainment: "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back" will get a "4K" restoration re-release in the United Kingdom in celebration of the film's 40th anniversary.
From Collider: See graphic designer Matt Ferguson's poster designs for "The Empire Strikes Back" 4K re-release.
TIMELINE - From YahooEntertainment: Here is a detailed (and interesting) Star Wars timeline.
JOHN BOYEGA - From IndieWire: Star Wars' very on "Finn," actor John Boyega, gave an impassioned speech in support of Black Lives Matter in London on Wednesday, June 3, 2020.
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - From StarWars: In an interview done to commemorate the 40th anniversary of "The Empire Strikes Back," George Lucas says that he doesn't know why "Star Wars" is so popular.
REVENGE OF THE SITH - From YahooMovieUK: There is a fan petition demanding that Disney release an alleged four-hour cut of "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith."
JAR JAR BINKS - From YahooEntertainment: The voice actor behind prequel trilogy star, "Jar Jar Binks," Ahmed Best, will be the host of the upcoming game show, "Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge," on YouTube's "Star Wars Kids" channel.
STAR WARS OBIT - From Variety: "Boom operator" (sound department) veteran Ken Nightingall has died at the age of 92, Tuesday, May 19, 2020. He worked on over 47 films, including the original 1977 film, "Star Wars." In recent years, he became a cult figure when a photo of him emerged in which he was shirtless and wearing pink shorts while his arms were hoisting a boom microphone over Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker, CP30, and R2D2 during a scene shot in Tunisia. To fans, Nightingall was the "pink shorts boom guy."
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - From YahooEntertainment: George Lucas apparently changed the ending of "The Empire Strikes Back," slightly, early in original release.
THE MANDALORIAN - From SlashFilm: Katee Sackhoff will appear in Season 2 of "The Mandalorian" in which she will play in live-action the character "Bo-Katan Kryze," that she has given voice to in the animated TV series, "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" and "Star Wars Rebels."
THE MANDALORIAN - From THR: Actor Temuera Morrison, who played "Jango Fett" in "Attack of the Clones," will reportedly play "Boba Fett" in Season Two of Disney+'s "The Mandalorian."
REBELS - From WeGotThisCovered: Rumors say that Lucasfilm is developing a spinoff of the animated series "Star Wars Rebels." The alleged live-action spinoff would focuse on the character, "Kanan Jarrus."
FRANCHISE - From TheWrap: 34 Celebrities You Probably Didn’t Know Were in ‘Star Wars’ Movies (with photos)
WAITITI - From StarWars: Oscar-winner Taika Waititi will co-write and direct a new "Star Wars" film.
ROGUE ONE - From BritishGQ: In an interview, actor Riz Ahmed, who appeared as "Bohdi Rook" in "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," says that two of his family members have died of COVID-19.
ROGUE ONE SPIN-OFF - From THR: The Disney+ "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" spinoff has a new showrunner, Tony Gilroy. Gilroy came in to co-write (or script doctor) "Rogue One," and may have directed new scenes for the film. Gilroy replaces original showrunner, Stephen Schiff. The series also added actresses, Genevieve O'Reilly and Denise Gough.
FUTURE - From Variety: Leslye Headland, the creator of Netflix's "Russian Doll," is developing a "Star Wars" series for Disney+.
THE MANDALORIAN - From Variety: While the second season of Disney+/Lucasfilm's "The Mandalorian" is not due until Oct. 2nd of this year, the third season is already being written and conceptualized artistically.
ROGUE ONE SPINOFF - From Variety: Actors Stellan Skarsgard and Kyle Soller join the Disney+ "Rogue One" spinoff.
THE HIGH REPUBLIC - From BleedingCool: The first inter-company crossover between publishers of "High Republic" fiction will involve two comic book publishers, Marvel Comics and IDW Publishing. However, the crossover will not be a comic book, but a novel.
THE HIGH REPUBLIC - From StarWars: StarWars.com reveals the Jedi Knights and Jedi Masters that are presumably the main protagonists in the upcoming multi-platform, "Star Wars: The High Republic." The first publications are set to arrive in August 2020, with the "Light of the Jedi" novel due August 25, 2020.
OBI-WAN - From Variety: Joby Harold has been named the new head writer of the planned Disney+ Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series.
OBITUARY - From YahooEntertainment: Dialect coach and "Star Wars" actor, Andrew Jack, has died at the age of 76, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. He died as a result of COVID-19. Jack played the character Caluan Ematt in "The Force Awakens" and "The Last Jedi," as well as providing the voice for a character in "Solo: A Star Wars Story." Since the early 1980s, Jack was the dialect coach for over 200 actors, including stars such as Robert Downey, Jr. and Chris Hemsworth. He was the supervising dialect coach on "The Lord of the Rings" and created the "Middle-earth" accents.
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - From YahooEntertainment: A look at the concept art for "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" reveals Lando's original look for the film and also the "space wolves."
THE MANDALORIAN - From THR: Actor Michael Beihn, best known for his roles in James Cameron's "The Terminator" (1984) and "Aliens" (1986), has reportedly been cast in Season 2 of "The Mandalorian."
THE MANDALORIAN - From Variety: Actress Rosario Dawson will portray the "Star Wars" character, Ahsoka Tano," in Season Two of the Disney+ series, "The Mandalorian." This will be the first live-action version of the character which appeared in the long-running animated series, "Star Wars: The Clone Wars."
TOYS - From Newsarama: Long time principal "Star Wars" toy designer, Mark Boudreax, is retiring after 43 years of designing for first, Kenner, and then, Hasbro.
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - From Deadline: Disney drops "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" on digital early, Dec. 13th, instead of the planned Dec. 17th digital release date.
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - From Empire: Some of the scenes deleted from "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" will appear in Marvel's comic book adaptation of the film.
THE HIGH REPUBLIC - From Newsarama: Formerly known as "Project Luminous," "Star Wars: The High Republic will bridge multiple publishers and platforms. "The High Republic" is set 200 years before the events depicted in "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace." The first publications are set to arrive in August 2020.
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - From ScaryMommy: This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first theatrical release of "The Empire Strikes Back," and Hasbro is celebrating with the upcoming release of a "Retro Collection" of action figures from the move. According to reports the figures are "highly detailed" and "life-like."
FUTURE - From THR: Director J.D. Willard ("Sleight") and writer Matt Owens ("Luke Cage") are developing a "Star Wars" project for Lucasfilm. No other details are known.
From Deadline: Willard and Owens "Star Wars" project will take place on the Sith planet, "Exegol," which debuted in "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker."
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - From Newsarama: Marvel Comics will adapt "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" into a five-issue miniseries, with new material.
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - From GamesRadar: The novelization of "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" confirms a deleted scene from the film in which Kylo Ren meets "The Oracle."
FRANCHISE - From Variety: The future of "Star Wars" is television says Disney CEO Bob Iger.
KATHLEEN KENNEDY - From CNN: Lucasfilm president, Kathleen Kennedy, attended the 2020 BAFTA Film Awards ceremony in London on Sun., Feb. 2nd. There, she received the coveted "BAFTA Fellowship" trophy, their version of a lifetime achievement award. She also talked about changing the future of "Star Wars."
OBITUARY - From FanthaTracks: The British "Star Wars" actor, Alan Harris, died at the age of 81, Saturday, January 25, 2020. He was best known for portraying the bounty hunter, "Bossk," in "The Empire Strikes Back." Harris also played several bit parts and was also a body double in the original trilogy films. He wore costumes for tests and also appeared as Terrence Stamp's body double in "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace."
UNDERWORLD - From Newsarama: Making the Internet rounds is what is purported to be test footage from "Star Wars: Underworld," the planned "Star Wars" TV series that George Lucas scrapped.
FUTURE - From Esquire: Could the "High Republic" and "Project Luminous" be the future of Star Wars?
EPISODE IX - From GamesRadar: Director Colin Trevorrow, fired from directing "Star Wars 9," confirmed as "real" the recent script leak and concept art for what would have been his Episode 9 film, "Star Wars: Duel of the Fates."
OBI-WAN - From Deadline: The Disney+/Lucasfilm "Obi-Wan" series has been put on hold.
EPISODE IX - From YahooLifestyle: More concept art, allegedly from Colin Trevorrow's aborted version of "Star Wars Episode IX," has been leaked. Trevorrow, who was hot off "Jurassic World," was fired and replaced by J.J. Abrams.
THE CLONE WARS - From GamesRadar: Season 7 of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" has a release date (Feb. 21st on Disney+) and a new trailer (which can see in the article I've linked to).
JOHN BOYEGA - From YahooNews: John Boyega, "Finn" in the sequel trilogy (in case you didn't know), bought his parents a house. They were speechless and there were lots of tears...
FUTURE - From TheWrap: Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Taika Waititi, is being eyed to develop a "Star Wars" film of some type.
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - From Variety: "The Rise of Skywalker" crosses the one billion dollar mark in global box office, $1.001 billion.
EPISODE IX - From YahooEntertainment: Before J.J. Abrams came back to direct what would become "The Rise of Skywalker," Colin Trevorrow was going to co-write and direct Episode IX. Now, comes a leak of what is alleged to be Trevorrow and writing partner's Derek Connolly's Episode IX script, "Star Wars: Duel of the Fates."
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - From Space: "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" earned two Oscar nominations as the 2020 / 92nd Academy Awards: "Music (Original Score)" and "Sound Editing and Visual Effects."
THE MANDALORIAN - From TheWrap: Meet the actor who punched the "Baby Yoda" puppet that cost five million dollars to make.
PRINCESS LEIA - From YahooEntertainment: Apparently, Billie Lourd played her mother, Carrie Fisher's character, Princess Leia, in "The Rise of Skywalker," for "a few seconds" with the help of VFX magic.
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - From GamesRader: Apparenly, classic Star Wars character, Nien Nunb (Return of the Jedi), dies in "The Rise of Skywalker."
COMIC BOOKS - From Newsarama: The site has a first-issue preview of Marvel Comics' new Darth Vader series, "Star Wars: Darth Vader." The preview includes seven pages of interior art and also a look at the art for two covers.
THE MANDALORIAN - From CBR: Director Taika Watiti says that he knows "The Child" a.k.a. "Baby Yoda's" real name, but he is waiting for "The Mandalorian's" creator and executive producer, Jon Favreau to reveal it.
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - From IGN: "The Rise of Skywalker" apparently has deleted scenes that explain how Palpatine is still alive.
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - From BleedingCool: Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner (1984-2005) took to Twitter to criticize "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" and actress Daisy Ridley's performance in it.
THE MANDALORIAN - From MovieWeb: Actress Gina Garano says that she fainted twice while filming the "Baby Yoda choke scene" during a recent episode of Disney+/Lucasfilm's "The Mandalorian."
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER - From VanityFair: Director J.J. Abrams explained how he convinced Harrison Ford to come back and play "Han Solo" one more time in "The Rise of Skywalker."
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STAR WARS Movie Reviews:
From Negromancer: "Star Wars"
From Negromancer: "The Empire Strikes Back"
From Negromancer: "Return of the Jedi"
From Negromancer: "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace"
From Negromancer: "Star Wars: The Force Awakens
From Negromancer: "Star Wars: The Last Jedi"
From Negromancer: "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker"
From Negromancer: "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" (2008 animated film)
From Negromancer: "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"
From Negromancer: "Solo: A Star Wars Story"
I Reads You "Star Wars Central" comics and graphic novel review page is here.
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,” says Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy. “The power of that film paired with the enormous success of Jurassic World speaks volumes about his abilities both as a storyteller and skilled filmmaker. We are thrilled to have such an incredible talent as Colin join our family and step into the Star Wars universe.”