Jedi

George Lucas was completely burned out. In making Return of the Jedi — the third film in the original Star Wars trilogy — Lucas wanted to be more hands off and to help him do that, like he did for The Empire Strikes Back, he had someone else direct the film. However, what he didn’t expect was that he had to be more involved with the details regardless and even expressed how he was the only one who had answers for everything about what was going on in the story and how certain things worked in this galaxy of his…

Gif: Hello There AnimationFor almost as long as Star Wars: The Clone Wars has been around, there have been fans asking to see their versions of the prequel characters get a chance to adapt the material of the live-action movies. We’ve had tiny tastes of what that might be thanks to video games, but this remarkable new animated short film gives us our best look yet at an animated Star Wars prequel remake.Bruce Willis is Keeping His FaceHello There Animations recently shared Clone Wars: Battle of the Heroes, a complete…

Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi games are firmly embedded in the years before the original trilogy, and keep the focus on a core cast of wholly new heroes and villains. It’s what made Star Wars Jedi: Survivor from earlier this year so excellent: the games take advantage of that relative freedom from the timeline and offer up an interesting array of original characters for audiences to love.Star Wars Brotherhood Excerpt: Dexter Jettster ReturnsOne of the newest additions for the sequel was Bode Akuna, a mercenary who shows up…

This year has been jam-packed with new Star Wars, with three new seasons of TV in Bad Batch, The Mandalorian, and Ahsoka, and oodles of books and comics that saw us revisit legends or the High Republic. Even as we await its return to the big screen, Star Wars remains ever-present—but one new story in particular fulfilled the promise of connecting points across this vast galaxy this year more than anything else: Jedi Survivor.‘I Started a Yoda Fan Club’As a standalone piece of Star Wars, Jedi Survivor proudly stands on its…

Image: PeacockIf we’re being honest, put Natasha Lyonne in anything and she’s likely to win us over. Her dry humor, raspy voice, and impeccable confidence almost always create a memorable character. But in the hands of murder mystery guru Rian Johnson on Poker Face, Charlie becomes something more. She’s on the run, so she’s always cautious and looking over her shoulder. And yet, because she has the power to tell if a person is lying or not, she finds that she has to do good. Has to get to the bottom of the case. Has to…

Image: Warner Bros.If you’re of a certain age, Michael Keaton’s Batman was one of the most formative characters in your nerd life. It’s a character we thought we’d never see again but, 30-plus years later, he finally returned in this year’s The Flash. And no matter what you think of the movie as a whole, if you loved Keaton’s Batman, it’s hard to deny how exciting it was to see that character again, hear his music, and feel that nostalgia. Unfortunately, Keaton’s return as Batman was short-lived, but he went out in style,…

Posted in: Comics, Marvel Comics, Preview | Tagged: star warsIn Star Wars: The High Republic #2, Jedi haunt their own, proving even in a galaxy far, far away, you can't escape the in-laws.Published Sun, 17 Dec 2023 15:26:06 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary "Star Wars: The High Republic #2" hits stores on December 20th, continuing Jedi tales. Keeve Trennis is captured, with the Nihil and Hutts causing chaos for the Jedi. Mystery abounds with a figure known as "The Child of the Storm"…

In the early 1980s, as the world was waiting in breathless anticipation for Return of the Jedi, the third film in the Star Wars trilogy, several questions danced in the heads of fans and some of them — though understandable — are quite humorous in retrospect. If you haven’t seen the original Star Wars trilogy, then consider this a spoiler alert. Otherwise, feel free to proceed further. We don’t need to see your identification. The Empire Strikes Back ended with quite the reveal, as supervillain Darth Vader told Luke…

As if the movies themselves didn’t make it more than obvious, fans have long come to understand that the Star Wars sequel trilogy changed drastically throughout development. Multiple writers and directors worked on The Force Awakens as well as The Rise of Skywalker, sometimes with radically different results, while The Last Jedi stayed true to itself in between, with even more polarizing results.'Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police' | AI UnlockedThe actors involved in the films have at times talked about this—but for…

Image: Random House WorldsThe prequel trilogy of Star Wars films (and similar material set in the same time period) introduced audiences to plenty of new Jedi, with one of the most striking being Samuel L. Jackson’s Mace Windu. Though he’s one of the most important players of that era, he hasn’t always gotten a chance to headline a story all on his own: the only novel in which he’s a leading man was 2004's Shatterpoints by Matt Stover.Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI UnlockedLucasfilm has opted to…