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Daddy’s Home: Grogu meets another Jedi. Pic source: Lucasfilm
Warning: This article contains spoilers from Season 2 of The Mandalorian, as well as the Star Wars Expanded Universe materials.
Are Lucasfilm, Disney, and Star Wars about to doom to licensed fan fiction its three most recent movies?
According to YouTuber Doomcock, who claims he has information from “a source that has demonstrated extraordinary access” at Lucasfilm, events in Season 2 of The Mandalorian have already begun to do just that.
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Think it can’t happen? Retconning has taken place already with Disney-owned Star Wars. It was considered a necessary step to make the sequel trilogies The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and Rise of Skywalker a reality.
Star Wars: Chris Pine Knows the Story of Rogue Squadron and It s Really, Really Great
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During The Walt Disney Company s Investor Day earlier this month, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy surprised audiences when she revealed that
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins would be directing the upcoming
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, and while fans of the franchise didn t see the announcement coming,
Wonder Woman star Chris Pine claims Jenkins told him her plans and that the story will be really great. Based solely on the title, fans are somewhat aware of the overall tone of the upcoming film, as it will surely focus on the renowned group of Rebellion pilots, with Pine praising the more specific details she s shared with him.
How The Mandalorian Perfectly Sets Up Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi
When audiences saw what Luke Skywalker had become in
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, it was a shock to everyone, to say the least. When last we saw the hero, he was toppling the Galactic Empire not only through combat with his father Darth Vader, but also by refusing to give in to the Emperor s wishes to see him turn to the Dark Side. Despite
The Last Jedi then going on to explain how one of the greatest heroes in sci-fi cinema ended up a hermit who turned his back on his heroic nature, it was a tough pill for all fans to swallow that, after not seeing Luke in a movie for three decades, we wouldn t be getting the back-flipping badass many had come to expect. Luckily, the Season Two finale of
Disney+ shared new details on “
The Book of Boba Fett,” an official spinoff of the live-action Star Wars series “The Mandalorian.” Disney first teased the new series during a Marvel-style end-credit sequence after the season finale of “The Mandalorian: Season 2.”
In the end-credit scene, Boba Fett and Fennec Shand return to Jabba’s palace on Tatooine to find his former henchman running the place. Boba Fett quickly kills the Twi’lek and seems ready to take over Hutt’s former criminal empire.
Jon Favreau, who serves as an executive producer on “The Mandalorian,” appeared on Good Morning America on Monday morning to tease the new series and announced that the show would premiere on Disney+ in December 2021. “The Mandalorian: Season 3” is expected to go into production in 2021, but Disney did not share any details on the next chapter. The shooting schedule means that “The Book of Boba Fett: Chapter 1” should premiere long before the next “The Mandaloria
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron movie will take “great influence” from the games
Disney and Lucasfilm announced this week that Patty Jenkins will be directing Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, for release in 2023. The film won’t be a straight adaptation of the classic space games, but the Wonder Woman director says they’re still part of the fabric of the story.
Speaking to IGN, Jenkins confirmed the movie will be based on a new script, drawing from the established legacy of storytelling around the Rogue Squadron. “We’re doing something original with great influence from the games and the books,” She said. “There’s a lot of things being acknowledged and understood about the greatness of all of those things, but yes, it’s an original story and I’m so psyched to do it.”