His name is Boba Fett. And he’s back. The Book of Boba Fett, a new Original Series following the legendary bounty hunter and his deadly partner, Fennec Shand, has arrived on Disney+! Chapter 1 is now streaming, with subsequent installments of the seven-episode season premiering every Wednesday. The Book of Boba Fett is set within […]
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Felicity Jones Reflects on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Felicity Jones was just coming off of what would become her Oscar-nominated turn as Jane Hawking in The Theory of Everything when she stepped into the Star Wars galaxy as the lead in the franchise’s first standalone film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in 2015. “I couldn’t believe what an amazing part it was,” […]
Celebrating Lynne Hale, Lucasfilm Legend
There are many Lucasfilm heroes, but not all of them wield lightsabers. Lynne Hale started at Lucasfilm over 35 years ago, the only publicity employee in the entire company at the time. Working directly with George Lucas, her first projects were Willow, Tucker, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Years later, when Star Wars […]
Star Wars: Best of 2021
This year, Lucasfilm marked its 50th with a year-long celebration of the company’s galaxy-spanning stories created over five decades. But like Luke Skywalker, our eyes are also on the horizon and the things yet to come. Star Wars: The High Republic ushered in a new multimedia initiative set in a previously unexplored era on the galactic […]
From Kenner to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
Most Star Wars fans have dreamed of flying an X-wing. When Brian Volk-Weiss was five years old, however, he was a little more serious about it. “I was young enough when I saw Star Wars that I really didn’t understand what a movie is,” he tells StarWars.com. “And I didn’t know the word ‘documentary,’ but […]
Celebrate One Year of Star Wars: The High Republic with an Anniversary Special
It’s almost been one year since we took our first steps into the larger world of Star Wars: The High Republic to read the first books and comics in the multimedia initiative exploring the Jedi Order at its height, centuries before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. To mark the one-year anniversary of the […]
Marvel’s Han Solo & Chewbacca Series Coming March 2022 – Exclusive
The galaxy’s greatest smuggler and his Wookiee co-pilot are taking on a new job: starring in their own comic. Han Solo & Chewbacca, a new series from Marvel, will launch in March 2022, StarWars.com can exclusively reveal. Written by Marc Guggenheim and pencilled by David Messina, the monthly comic follows Han and Chewie a few […]
Gareth Edwards Looks Back on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
It’s not typical that a major studio releases a tentpole film in which all the heroes die at the end. But then, Rogue One wasn’t a typical Star Wars movie. Released December 16, 2016, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story told the tale of how the rebels stole plans to the Death Star, leading directly into […]
From the Pages of Star Wars Insider: Educating Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth – Exclusive Excerpt
Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth is the role actor, filmmaker, stuntwoman, and martial artist Diana Lee Inosanto was seemingly born to play. In the second season of The Mandalorian, Inosanto introduced the world to the coldhearted leader of Calodan, going toe-to-toe with a former Jedi in search of the secret information she possessed. It was the first […]
“It Shattered the World’s Perception”: The Story of the Navajo-Language Dub of Star Wars: A New Hope
It took 16 years to get an answer, but Manuelito Wheeler never gave up hope. In 1996, Wheeler worked as the creative director at the Herd Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. His wife, Jennifer, had experience teaching the Navajo language from the elementary school level all the way up to university; she also held a PhD […]