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Star Wars: Ahsoka isn’t just bringing back Admiral Thrawn, it’s also possibly introducing one of his most faithful allies. Joining the cast of the Rosario Dawson-led series is The Expanse’s Wes Chatham, who will reportedly be playing a major ally of Thrawn.The Woman Who Would Be PhotonPer Deadline, multiple sources have confirmed the casting that Chatham would be playing a “right hand man” to Grand Admiral Thrawn, just days after Disney confirmed Thrawn would be played by Lars Mikkelsen, who previously voiced the admiral…

Screenshot: LucasfilmThere was plenty to celebrate at Star Wars Celebration Europe, which wrapped up today in London. The Lucasfilm lovefest wowed fans with all sorts of news, including when the franchise will finally return to movie theaters—and who’ll be directing the new movies. Plus, there were new trailers for Ahsoka, Visions, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and more. And, neither last nor least, we finally learned who will bring fan-favorite villain Thrawn to life. Check out all of io9's SWCE coverage here!…

Star Wars Celebration brings plenty of news with it from the galaxy far, far away, but it also brings future opportunities to drain your wallet. Hasbro understood this more than anyone else at their panel at the London convention, and they brought out big announcements from Star Wars and Indiana Jones to whet fans appetites.Hasbro’s panel covered not just the galaxy far, far away, but one a little closer to home, as it lifted the lid on products due throughout the next year for both Star Wars and Indiana Jones. In the…

Though the look back at Obi-Wan Kenobi panel at Star Wars Celebration didn’t have any news about a second season of the show, it did give fans in attendance a new found appreciation for what the show meant to the cast and crew who worked on it.How Ewan McGregor Helped Bring Back Obi WanEwan McGregor did mention that he wanted to do more, and you understand why after hearing him talk about his experiences on the show. For example, the first time he watched the final episode, when his character says goodbye to Princess Leia…

Sarah Michelle Gellar in Wolf PackImage: Paramount+Aside from those titles listed on the previous slide, which are already digging into their respective seasons, look for:Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre: “From the mind of horror manga maestro Junji Ito comes a spine-tingling selection of some of his most bizarre, terrifying, and disturbing tales.” (January 19, Netflix)The Legend of Vox Machina: Critical Role’s animated Dungeons & Dragons campaign picks up for season two, with a third season already…

Image: Disney/LucasfilmJames Earl Jones has been Darth Vader since the original Star Wars all the way back in 1977. While the man formerly known as Anakin Skywalker has been canonically dead since 1983, Jones has consistently reprised the role over the decades, including in 2016's Rogue One and the recent Obi-Wan Kenobi series. But all great things must come to an end, Jones has quietly confirmed that he’s gearing up to retire from voicing the galaxy’s biggest drama queen.According to a recent report from Vanity Fair,…

Let’s crack into the new Obi-Wan Kenobi doc, shall we?Screenshot: Disney+/LucasfilmThink of all the years fans were waiting for Ewan McGregor to return as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Think of all the thousands of times the actor was asked about it. This year, it finally happened. Obi-Wan Kenobi is now on Disney+ and thanks to a new documentary, fans can see what all those years of anticipation and uncertainty looked like in practice once the cameras started rolling.The Disney+ documentaryis called Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi’s Return,…

Deborah Chow directing Ewan McGregor and Vivien Lyra Blair in Obi-Wan Kenobi.Screenshot: Disney+The studio did it (a few times) for The Mandalorian, did it again for The Book of Boba Fett, and now is doing it for Obi-Wan Kenobi. Disney just announced a behind-the-scenes documentary is coming for the most recent Star Wars show and it’s arriving on the biggest of days.The documentary is called Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi’s Return and it’ll debut on Disney+ September 8. Why September 8? Well, that’s “Disney+ Day,” a day meant to…

Learner and master have at it. Screenshot: Disney+/LucasfilmNo matter what happened on Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, there was no way it was going to match Mustafar. Back in 2005, audiences saw Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) fight to the near-death on the lava planet in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. George Lucas’ visuals in the scene were stunning on their own, but John Williams’ music, titled “Battle of the Heroes,” really broughtthe scene together. The music beautifully…

Obi-Wan looks upon a familiar face.Screenshot: LucasfilmStar Wars, on many levels, exists in series of parallels and couplets—a cycle of the rise and defeat of darkness, the fall and rebirth of light, an echo of a story told over and over across generations of families and civilizations. “It’s like poetry, they rhyme,” George Lucas says in the Phantom Menace documentary The Beginning,a statement that may be a meme now but remains one of the truest things ever said about the galaxy far, far away.But what happens when Star…