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Two comics and two collections are our new releases this Wednesday, September 19. Head to the comic store for Star Wars #54 or Lando: Double or Nothing #5. For the trade collectors, there’s Doctor Aphra Volume 1 in hardcover, and for Legends fans, the prequel-era Menace Revealed Volume 1 collection.
We met Team Fireball, part of the Star Wars Resistance cast a few weeks ago: Now it’s time for some details on “the Aces,” pilots who protect the show’s main setting, the Colossus platform.
They include Myrna Velasco’s Torra Doza, Donald Faison’s Hype Fazon, Stephen Stanton’s Griff Halloran, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn’s Freya Fenris and the mysterious Bo Keevil. (Their ships, Blue Ace, Green Ace, Black Ace, Red Ace and Yellow Ace, plus the Fireball, all now have Databank entries.)
The video debuted on USA Today, who also talked to Dave Filoni.
The show will debut on October 7 on the Disney Channel and DisneyNOW.
Solo is out today on digital, and we’ve had a wealth of behind the scenes info the last few days. Head under the cut for more on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s L3-37, puppeteer Brian Herring, and co-writer Jon Kasdan.
Continue reading “Droids, puppets and notes: Behind the scenes of Solo”
Two more cut scenes from Solo today! The first, via Entertainment Weekly, is Han as a TIE trainee, and his subsequent trial that led him to Mimban. The second, a snowball fight on Vandor, debuts on The Star Wars Show, which also features a Ray Park interview:
Sure enough, a bunch of Solo extra clips showed up today. On io9, a look at going to hyperspace. Fandango has a roundtable clip, and D23 has lighting with cinematographer Bradford Young.
In a StarWars.com interview, Solo composer John Powell talks about scoring the film (including ‘Chicken in the Pot,’ Enfys Nest and the famed Kessel Run) and working with John Williams.
David Collins and Amy Ratcliffe will return as stage hosts for Celebration Chicago, StarWars.com reports. This will be Collins’ sixth turn, and Ratcliffe’s third. They’re back at the Galaxy and Behind-the-Scenes stages, respectively.
Celebration Chicago will be April 11-15, 2019 at McCormick Place.
The week begins with the Solo junior novelization, and ends with Solo itself on digital, with some comics in-between.
With Thrawn: Alliances out now for more than a month (and being the first non-adapted Star Wars novel to be an NYT #1 since Heir to the Empire), James talks Thrawn, Vader, Padme and Anakin and spoilers with Timothy Zahn.
For more Zahn, check out Tosche Station’s DragonCon recordings: A full Thrawn panel, plus the author panel, which also features Kevin J. Anderson, Michael A. Stackpole, Christie Golden, and E.K. Johnston.
Lucasfilm releases our first official photos of Solo’s Maul, and Ray Park talks about returning to his most famous role (and dropping hints on Instagram), in Forbes.
Continue reading “Get a closer look at Solo’s Maul (and his robot legs)”