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The Long History of How the Rebels Originally Stole the Death Star Plans
In current Star Wars canon, the plot to steal the Death Star’s technical plans is incredibly straight forward: it’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the tale of Galen Erso’s sacrifice and the ragtag team that swooped down to Scarif and gave their lives to ensure that data fell into Rebel hands. But in the…
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What Happened the Last Time Star Wars Did ‘Somehow, Thrawn Returned’
In Star Wars’ current canon, we stand on the precipice of a return years in the making: at the end of Ahsoka’s first season, Grand Admiral Thrawn had made his way back from a galaxy even further away to restore a remnant Empire to glory and imperil the New Republic. But what happened when Thrawn…
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Stellan Skarsgård Explains the Intensity of Filming His Iconic Andor Speech
“Calm. Kindness, kinship. Love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace, I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion: I’m damned for what I do.”
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The First Andor Trailer Is Like No Star Wars You’ve Ever Seen
Star Wars Celebration 2022 has given us our first look at Andor, the next Disney+ upcoming series set for release this August 31, and while it’s unmistakably Star Wars, Andor looks like something quite new. It’s not just the growing Rebellion versus the Empire — this time the war is very, very personal.