Josh Trank recently exited the Disney project, which will follow the galaxy’s most notorious bounty hunter
The next “Star Wars” anthology movie due in 2018 that recently lost director Josh Trank will be a Boba Fett origin story, confirming one of many rumors that have appeared online in the last several months, TheWrap has learned.
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Who isn’t a fanboy or fangirl of Star Wars these days? We are starting to count down the months till this epic movie comes out on the big screen. Earlier this week, a new trailer was released and it hit the web hard! It was everywhere, and everyone was talking about it. It even made the front page of some major newspapers, (e.g. the New York Daily News). Continue reading
Watch this. Now. TIE Fighter is a short animation by Paul Johnson that shows a bit of Star Wars from the perspective of the Empire. It’s done in the style of anime from the 80’s and shows an aerial fight scene between TIE fighters and X-wings and is pretty much so awesome that Disney should make this an entire movie. Continue reading
Star Wars Battlefront will be unveiled next month at Star Wars Celebration, the semi-annual fan convention, Electronic Arts announced today.
“We’re thrilled to share that Star Wars Battlefront will be taking part in Star Wars Celebration next month in Anaheim, CA from April 16-19,” a post on EA’s site reads. “We could not think of a better or more appropriate place to debut the game officially for the first time than the premier event that celebrates the Star Wars universe and the legions of fans who have fallen in love with it.” Continue reading
There are very few secrets in this world of spoilers and hype. One of the few secrets still out there is what the first Star Wars standalone movie is going to be about. Recently, /Film caught up with screenwriter Chris Weitz at the premiere of Cinderella and asked him a few questions about his current writing project, the Star Wars spinoff film being directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla). Continue reading
Thanks to Making Star Wars, we have a huge list of cool rumors regarding the video game Star Wars: Battlefront. This game is one of my most anticipated Star Wars-related properties that’s being released, and to make things even more awesome, apparently it is going to be linked to J.J. Abrams‘ Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Continue reading
Some of the greatest galactic heroes are joining the Star Wars The Black Series 6-Inch Action Figure line with Star Wars The Black Series 6-Inch Action Figures Wave 7.
The Wave 7 case includes four individually packaged action figures (subject to change): Continue reading
Its been reported more than a few times that Han Solo and Boba Fett are each getting their own Star Wars spin-off films. Latino-Review has heard from their sources that “both these characters are in the same movie.” What?!
This would connect a few dots on the Gareth Edwards directed spin-off that is rumored to be about bounty hunters stealing the Death Star plans. Fett was long rumored to be in the film and wrapping Solo into the fold just further establishes their backstory/history. Hypothetically, this would mean that the Rebel Alliance might have paid the Hutts as intermediaries. These compounded interconnections are likely what future Star Wars spin-off films will be about.
TIE pilots served in the Imperial Navy by piloting the various TIE Series starfighters.
At the height of the Galactic Empire, the Imperial Navy had countless Academy graduates and clones at its disposal. During the time of the Imperial Remnant and the reign of a reborn Emperor Palpatine, the Empire was forced to be conservative with the lives of the TIE pilots due to their decreasing numbers, and unmanned TIE/D automated starfighters were used as support craft for living pilots.
They were referred to as “bucketheads” by Rebel pilots, due to their bulky, fully enclosed helmets. Within the Imperial forces they were often referred to as “coffin jockeys”, due to the high mortality rate of those manning the vulnerable TIE fighters.
The Imperial TIE Fighter Pilot Sixth Scale Figure features:
We know that George Lucas was developing a new trilogy of Star Wars films before he sold Lucasfilm to Disney. I’ve been curious to know how much of the story he was developing made it into J.J. Abrams‘ Star Wars: The Force Awakens – and now we know. Continue reading
