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A new featurette showcases the on-set friendships – primarily Daisy, John and Oscar – of The Rise of Skywalker.
Disney has issued a warning to theaters about The Rise of Skywalker containing sequences with flashing lights that could cause seizures in those with photosensitive epilepsy. They’re working with the Epilepsy Foundation to get the news out.
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What would it take to get John Boyega to return to Star Wars? Not streaming, he jokes to Variety: “You ain’t going to Disney Plus me!” But he says he would come back for a movie “as long as Daisy and Oscar are down for it.”
They are both less enthusiastic about the prospect: “[I’m] happy and feeling fulfilled that the task is complete,” Isaac says. “So I can’t imagine what it would be that would make me want to redo this thing or revisit it.” He’s also not very keen on taking Poe to Disney+.
Ridley says “I just don’t know if anything could top this one, honestly… it would have to be so extraordinary [to return], and I don’t know if that’s possible.”
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The second ride at Galaxy’s Edge, Rise of the Resistance, finally opened today at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida. There were some bumps along the way, naturally.
There are walkthrough videos already, if that’s your thing.
(And I still want to know if it’s Bakara or Bakura….)
The Disneyland version is due to open January 17.
Today was the film’s big press day, which meant that Kathleen Kennedy, Chris Terrio, Billy Dee Williams and the elusive Adam Driver all joined the folks we’ve been seeing over the past few days… Plus, quite possibly, the ghost of Carrie Fisher.
Pirate curses and gangsters haunt ‘Kaz’s Curse,’ the next episode of Star Wars Resistance.
A pirate curses Kaz, causing him danger at every turn. Kaz is soon forced to seek Mika Grey for help, but Kaz’s curse gets worse when the Guavian Death Gang appears.
More photos and a clip under the cut.
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Daisy Ridley gets another cover story, this one in British GQ, where she talks about adjusting to fame, filming The Rise of Skywalker and more.
Continue reading “Daisy Ridley on filming Rise of Skywalker, looking back on TLJ’s throne room fight”She was able to find the light side even in the weightier moments. “There was this thing,” she says, laughing as she starts to recall. “JJ would ask us to do the scene without speaking, just to feel the emotional… whatever. He was like, ‘You never know what could come up.’ We did that a couple of times. Then it became a joke, because we would just wet ourselves laughing. I said to JJ, ‘You have to do a bloopers reel,’ because I couldn’t keep my shit together at all.”
Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge, hosted by Ahmed Best, will be a kid’s game show which sounds like something in the vein of Nickelodeon’s Legends of the Hidden Temple.
“The various challenges will test a Padawan’s connection to the Force in three locations — a forest planet, on board a Jedi star cruiser, and inside a Jedi temple — immersing them and the audience in a fun, humorous, and exciting competition,” said Lucasfilm’s senior director of Online Content & Programming, Mickey Capoferri.
Best will play a Jedi Master and be joined by a humanoid droid companion, voiced by Mary Holland.
Look for it on Disney+ in 2020.
The Rise of Skywalker will address Finn’s origins, J.J. Abrams tells Vanity Fair‘s Anthony Breznican. “I’m not saying we get full, exhaustive downloads on all of their childhoods and every major step that got them to where they are,” Abrams said. “But there are a lot of questions about Finn’s past, about Poe’s past, obviously Rey and Kylo, and then some of the new characters we meet.”
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Things are a bit dire for new releases this Wednesday, December 4 as we hunker down and wait for The Rise of Skywalker. This week, our sole new release is Jedi Fallen Order: Dark Temple #5, concluding… Whatever that is. Then Marvel is offering a reprint version of their original 1977 Star Wars #1 and then Star Wars Saga #1, which appears to be a recap of their 2015-2019 series.
Two new commercials showed up this weekend. The first, “Celebrate,” features a new Leia shot, plus Kylo with the Knights of Ren, Poe, and some space battle stuff.
The second, “Hold on,” has a few minor new shots: