Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
There’s plenty of X-wing action in Star Wars Rebels’ fall finale, ‘Rebel Assault’. Andi Gutierrez talks to Henry Gilroy, Dave Filoni, Pablo Hidalgo, Joel Aron, Keith Kellogg and Vanessa Marshall. And Pablo answers questions about stormtroopers, the Death Star and Ezra’s skills.
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The Disney ride Star Tours is going to split off the sequel-era content from the stuff based around the first two trilogies, WDW News Today reports.
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It appears that there may be a Padme Amidala YA novel in the works – at least per the franchise’s German publisher, Panini. There’s not much info – no author, no details on where it might be set in the prequel era – so there’s still a lot to wait for in an official announcement. Still, this does seem a natural followup to the recent Leia and Ahsoka novels, so I can’t see any real reason to doubt it’s happening.
UPDATE: Panini asked Jedi Bibliothek to remove the listing. Curious.
Also dropping today – officially – is a preview of the Thrawn comic, which adapts Timothy Zahn’s canon novel from earlier this year. The series will kick off with #1 in February, and it brings back long-haired Thrawn to boot.
And one from last week- an excerpt of Canto Bight, The Last Jedi novella tie-in that’s out on December 5. The excerpt is from John Jackson Miller, but the collection also includes works from Saladin Ahmed, Rae Carson and Mira Grant.
The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has clearly made quite an impression over at Lucasfilm, because they’ve just announced that he’s developing a new Star Wars trilogy. The new trilogy won’t be part of the episode/Skywalker cycle, and will “introduce new characters from a corner of the galaxy that Star Wars lore has never before explored.” He will write and direct the first film at least, along with producer Ram Bergman.
There’s no release dates for these new movies yet. J.J. Abrams’ Episode IX is the last film on the schedule currently, with a release date of December 20, 2018.
Johnson’s The Last Jedi is next up, on December 15.
Some of us have been speculating that a standalone trilogy might fill the gap between IX and the (nigh inevitable) second sequel trilogy, and this indicates that may be how Lucasfilm is leaning as well… But we’ll just have to wait and see.
And on the other side of the coin… A live-action Star Wars series will be coming to Disney’s streaming service, Bob Iger announced alongside the news of Rian Johnson’s new trilogy. No other details were revealed, but the service is expected to debut in 2019.
It’s too early to tell much, but for now I maintain my longstanding side-eye of live-action Star Wars TV projects.
Entertainment Weekly has a new The Last Jedi photo of Kelly Marie Tran’s Rose Tico, and some new info about the character as well. Much is made of the object on her necklace, which is “definitely something that is significant to Rose’s backstory,” Tran says.
Elsewhere, theater owners tell the Wall Street Journal that Disney’s requirements for screening The Last Jedi “are the most onerous they’ve ever seen.”
I guess there’s a big baseball game tonight and thus we are blessed with a new commercial? With a nice chunk of new shots in it? I don’t know, man.
Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy is the matinee interview on The Star Wars Show this week, where she talks about The Last Jedi, Solo, the story group and more.
Hera, Sabine, Ketsu and a speeder in ‘Crash Course.’
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The next two episodes of Star Wars Rebels, ‘Kindred’ and ‘Crawler Commandeers,’ will have two special guest stars. Warwick Davis is voicing Rukh, the show’s second big Legends transplant, while Seth Green is doing duty as Captain Seevor, a Trandoshan. Nerdist has a preview clip.
Davis is also doing a Reddit AMA today.
A clip from ‘Kindred’ and stills from both episodes under the cut.
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