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Billy Dee Williams originated the Lando Calrissian character in the Star Wars universe and would not mind reprising the role in future projects if they make a good monetary offer. In a recent interview, the actor who first played Lando in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back is opening up about what…

Jake Lloyd played Anakin Skywalker in 1999’s Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace and left the limelight shortly after the film’s release. In a new interview, Lloyd’s mother, Lisa Lloyd, updated the public on her son and dispelled rumors that had plagued the Star Wars community for many…

Well, Han Solo and Princess Leia had a jedi child in Ben Solo aka Kylo Ren, so what about Daisy Ridley’s Rey Skywalker? The next Star Wars movie from filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, which was announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023, will see the further adventures of Rey post the events of 2019’s S…

One of the highlights of Dune: Part Two is seeing Christopher Walken’s take on the role of Shaddam IV, the film's ferocious Emperor. It’s his first acting role in four years, and came about because of his admiration for the first film in the series. But it’s not the first time Walken has tried for…

Mark Dodson, whose unique voice characterizations propelled creatures in the films Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Gremlins, has died at 64. His daughter told TMZ that he died while in Evansville, IN, to attend Horror Con. He checked into a hotel and suffered a “massive heart attack” while…

In a wide-ranging interview with Empire, Hayden Christensen has revealed his doubts that he’d win the role of Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. He also talked of its backlash. Christensen, now 42, was just 19-years-old when he debuted as the future Darth Vader in 2002’s Star Wars: Epi…

Electronic Arts, which makes such games as Madden NFL and Apex Legends, said today that it plans to lay off five percent of its employees and will discontinue work on several games. The announcement continues the ongoing downsizing in the gaming and tech space, a development that has seen thousands…

The Star Wars franchise is coming to shoot a film entirely in California for the first time with The Mandalorian & Grogu movie, and the Golden State is paying out its weight in tax incentive gold to have the bounty hunter saga made within state lines. To be specific, that is a total tonnage of…

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Daisy Ridley is returning to the Star Wars universe to reprise her role of Rey in a film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Ahead of diving back into that world, she is looking back at how the fanbase was divided with the final installment of the sequel trilogy with 2019’s The Rise of…

It’s not the ones you get that haunt you. It’s the ones you missed. Jodie Foster says she almost played Princess Leia in Star Wars, but had a scheduling conflict. Foster recalled her Star Wars moment on Wednesday’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “I had a conflict, I was doing a…

Daisy Ridley is set to reprise her role of Rey Skywalker in an upcoming Star Wars film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. In a new interview, Ridley is expressing her excitement over the project and teasing that the story is going in a “different direction.” “So I thought about it for a little…