Grand Inquisitor

A wild rumor suggests Disney has tapped a director for a live-action Gargoyles movie. Strange New Worlds’ Gia Sandhu talks about bringing more of Spock’s backstory to the screen. Plus, what’s coming on the last few episodes of Secret Invasion. To me, my spoilers!What Drew Gillian Jacobs to Invincible? | io9 InterviewGargoylesAccording to The Belfast Telegraph, Kenneth Branagh is attached to direct a live-action film adaptation of Gargoyles, the popular 1990s animated series for Disney. BarbieDuring a recent interview with…

Screenshot: LucasfilmIf there’s one thing the villains of the Star Wars galaxy are good at, it’s cheating death. That’s both true in the fiction of the franchise as well as real-life, apparently, because Obi-Wan Kenobi series writer Stuart Beattie has revealed that the show’s antagonist, Reva (Moses Ingram), was supposed to die.In an interview with the Direct, Beattie revealed the Third Sister of the Sith Inquisitors’ fate was to die at the hands of Darth Vader after saving Obi-Wan in a moment of redemption. She was also…

“I was always here, Obi-Wan. You just... were not ready to see yet.”Screenshot: LucasfilmThere’s been a bit of a strange recurrence in Star Wars recently: more often than not, people just don’t die. The Rise of Skywalker, infamously perhaps, is predicated on the return of the Emperor with little explanation as to how he got out of a one-way trip down an exploding reactor shaft. Obi-Wan Kenobi just gave us not one, but two people surviving mortal lightsaber wounds through sheer determination.So yeah, people are having a…

One last ride for Obi-Wan Kenobi.Image: LucasfilmObi-Wan Kenobi has reached its conclusion and I feel super weird about it. It’s that feeling you get after you finish a movie, show, or book you’ve been waiting forever for and it hasn’t quite processed yet. You know that it’s over, the mysteries are solved, and yet, you can’t believe that it happened. Obi-Wan Kenobi was kind of like that—a show that I absolutely enjoyed but ultimately just have some huge questions about and will be thinking about for a long time. My main…

Get ready to return to the rise of the Empire.Gif: LucasfilmAt a glance:Set 10 years after the events of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi tells the story of how Darth Vader tried to hunt down and kill Obi-Wan Kenobi, his old master.Star Wars fans, of course, know that Obi-Wan Kenobi is on Tatooine, watching over Vader’s son, Luke Skywalker, as we first saw him in 1977's Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Here’s everything you need to remember about Kenobi’s life to that point.Ewan…

Darth Vader is back on the fourth episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi.Image: LucasfilmPrincess Leia has been captured. She’s aboard an impenetrable structure run by the Empire and our heroes must infiltrate it to rescue her. Wait, are we talking about Star Wars: A New Hope or the latest episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi? They’re both episode fours. Frankly, it could be either, which was one of the cooler aspects of the fourth and latest episode of Disney+’s new Star Wars show. It also borrowed heavily from the excellent video game Star…

Image: LucasfilmFor much of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s pre-release buildup, the focus was rightly on how time has changed Ewan McGregor’s titular Jedi, and the eventual round two he’d have with Anakin Skywalker. But this being Star Wars in the Disney era, the trailers hid what the show would actually be about, so as to fuel speculation and make waiting up all night for a new episode to drop on a weekly basis worth it. Whether or not that marketing tactic works and how often it should be used is another discussion for another time,…

Welcome back to io9's Toy Aisle, where this week we’re exclusively featuring toys revealed as part of Star Wars Celebration 2022 taking place in Anaheim, California, right now.That includes new collectibles from Lego, Hasbro, Mattel, Jazwares, Hot Toys, and countless other previews of where you’ll be spending your money the rest of the year. Check it out!Lego Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Jedi StarfighterWith Disney’s new Obi-Wan Kenobi series starting today, Lego revealed a handful of new sets ahead of Star Wars…