Star Wars Episode VII Cast Revealed. Han, Leah, Luke ALL Return! April 29, 2014
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We have long suspected that the classic Star Wars cast would return for Star Wars Episode VII.
Now know that to be a fact.
Disney today announced that the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker will be back for Episode VII. They will be joined by John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson and Max von Sydow.
“We are so excited to finally share the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. It is both thrilling and surreal to watch the beloved original cast and these brilliant new performers come together to bring this world to life, once again,” Director J.J. Abrams said in a statement. “We start shooting in a couple of weeks, and everyone is doing their best to make the fans proud.”
Oh and they posted a picture to prove it too:
Star Wars Episode VII Cast
Disney Destoying LucasArts – hundreds unemployed, games cancelled #fudisney April 3, 2013
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Disney really doesn’t like parts of the Star Wars Universe.
First they destroyed the Clone Wars, ending the series before its time.
Now Disney is closing down LucasArts. That’s right the main production house behind some of the best games ever made is being shutdown by the house the mouse built.
“After evaluating our position in the games market, we’ve decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company’s risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games. As a result of this change, we’ve had layoffs across the organization. We are incredibly appreciative and proud of the talented teams who have been developing our new titles.”
Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi—The Prisoner of Bogan #3 – interesting but slow.. March 27, 2013
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Star Wars Dawn of the Jedi is a series with a whole lot of promise..but has been slow moving.
Xesh is an awesome character though and the cover image – really is the highlight of this issue – Xesh – the ‘bad guy’ fighting a pure blood Sith (aka the J’eedai good guy).
Still interesting for us to see light sabers as being a novel/new idea and not common place.
Star Wars Agent of the Empire Hard Targets #5 – Lame Ending to otherwise great series March 27, 2013
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Agent of the Empire has been one of our favorite new Star Wars comic storylines ever since the first issue.
Here we get Jahan Cross
-the Agent of the Empire
and his Dad
oh and Boba Fett
and Serenno (Count Dooku!)
what more could you ask for?
Well the finale of this story didn’t quite make sense – though the overall plot was great fun.
How Cross was able to double-cross Boba Fett and get him to kill what should have been the new count of serenno didn’t quite make sense to us. The story just kinda wheezed out in the end in a climax that wasn’t terribly exciting.
Star Wars Dark Times Fire Carrier #2 – Where are the Refugees? March 27, 2013
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Dark Times has always been a ‘dark’ comic.
how could we ever forget that very first story arc back in 2007 – that was so…’unappetizing’
Fire Carrier continues that tradition –
Refugees ferried to a safe location…
only to…. be …
well…
..it’s not pretty.
Dark Times..
indeed…
Dark Horse Star Wars #3 – one word review – AWESOME March 26, 2013
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The new Star Wars series – (just Star Wars) has been great to read and enjoy since the first issue. The third issue is no exception to that trend.
This is Classic era at its finest – in that time just after Episode IV (A New Hope) when we didn’t know that Leia was Luke’s sister yet.
In this issue we get a little ‘distraction’ or is it jealousy? with a new Rebel pilot that is getting quite friendly with Luke.
Also cool to see Han in his early days as a Rebel agent – on Coruscant no less.
Enjoyable engaging story – thoughtful and flowing art throughout – an overall joy to read.
Star Wars The Old Republic: Annihilation – AKA the Hunt for the Ascendant Spear – REVIEW March 17, 2013
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wow.
just wow.
Some Star Wars books are good.
Some Star Wars books are great
and then there is Annihilation, which redefines the word: Awesome.
From beginning to end, author Drew Karpyshyn, weaves a tale of intrigue and amazing action that just kept us turning page after page.
This book really could have simply been called the Hunt for the Ascendant Spear – instead of Annihilation, cause that’s what it’s all about. Well that, and the final reunion of Jedi Grand Master Satele Shan, her baby’s daddy and Theron Shan.
This of course, continues on the Lost Suns storyline from the Dark Horse comics series that premiered in 2011.
Instead of the typical three concurrent storylines merging into one approach of most Star Wars books, this mostly a one or two storyline book, making the action easier to follow and the chronology very fluid. We have Theron’s plotline – and then we get bit of what is going on in the Sith Empire. Yeaah we’re maybe a little shortchanged on the Sith bits, but it makes for a better story this way.
The amazing Theron and how he gets into and out of trouble with his brains and (non-Jedi) skills along is something to behold.
Easily the best Star Wars book we’ve read so far in 2013.
Lucasfilm/Disney Bringing Star Wars Clone Wars to an End March 11, 2013
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Looks like Season five of clone wars is the last for the amazing animated series on Cartoon Network.
We will see some more episode – likely on Disney XD – but whatever constitutes season six will be the end for Clone Wars.
What will become of Ashoka?
J J Abrams to Direct Star Wars Episode VII? DONT MAKE US BARF!!!! January 24, 2013
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News today is that J J Abrams – the dude behind the moronic Star Trek reboot – but also the same guy behind great TV like Fringe – has been tapped to direct the first Disney Star Wars movie.
THIS IS JUST PLAIN WRONG.
Star Wars and Star Trek should not crossover and the infection of Abrams will be revolting to those with high midichlorian counts.
Then again – George Lucas is hardly a great director either – Episodes 1-3 are proof of that…and so long as J J doesn’t bring back Jar Jar (strange how J J and Jar Jar have the same initials) – we can’t be too peeved right?
President Obama Decides NOT to Build the Death Star – Republicans still debating the issue. January 13, 2013
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On Nov 14 of 2012 a petition was submitted to the U.S. Government with over 34,000 signatures requesting that a Death Star be constructed
By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority platform and weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense..
Obama’s administration has responded, and the TL;dr version is that the Democratic President will NOT build a Death Star.
but it’s not just a simple no – Obama’s people took the time to craft one of the most loving Star Wars thing to ever emerge from a Government (if not THE MOST).
Official White House Response to Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Looking For
By Paul Shawcross
The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn’t on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:
- The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We’re working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
- The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
- Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?
However, look carefully (here’s how) and you’ll notice something already floating in the sky — that’s no Moon, it’s a Space Station! Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that’s helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations. The Space Station has six astronauts — American, Russian, and Canadian — living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space over long periods of time, routinely welcoming visiting spacecraft and repairing onboard garbage mashers, etc. We’ve also got two robot science labs — one wielding a laser — roving around Mars, looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.
Keep in mind, space is no longer just government-only. Private American companies, through NASA’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO), are ferrying cargo — and soon, crew — to space for NASA, and are pursuing human missions to the Moon this decade.
Even though the United States doesn’t have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, we’ve got two spacecraft leaving the Solar System and we’re building a probe that will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun. We are discovering hundreds of new planets in other star systems and building a much more powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that will see back to the early days of the universe.
We don’t have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke’s arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.
We are living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field. The President has held the first-ever White House science fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn because he knows these domains are critical to our country’s future, and to ensuring the United States continues leading the world in doing big things.
If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star’s power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
Paul Shawcross is Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget
Tell us what you think about this response and We the People.
Star Wars Dawn of the Jedi RETURNS with the Prisoner of Bogan November 28, 2012
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Star Wars Dawn of the Jedi
Oh man are we excited to this series come back!
Dark Horse now has this FRAKKED idea that every series should be a mini-series of 5 or 6 issues after which they take a few months off.
So instead of month after month of Dawn of the Jedi goodness..we’ve had to wait…
We finished the first five issues of Dawn of the Jedi back in September. At the end of that story arc – Xesh – the ‘Force Hound’ was send to Bogan with other miscreants to re-learn the ways of the force.
Now we’re finally going to see what this Bogan is all about and it sure looks/sounds impressive to us.
Banished to the dark moon Bogan, the Force Hound Xesh has been living in contemplation; the memory of who he was before his ship crashed on Tython still escapes him. A rival from his past is on his trail, and the Je’daii are doing all they can to discover his origin. And now, Xesh is about to meet someone who will change his life forever, a former great Je’daii . . . the prisoner of Bogan!
Xesh!!
Star Wars: Darth Maul Death Sentence #4 – WOW. Maul is Evil. November 12, 2012
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ok so for a minute there we thought Maul might shift and help the poor sods on that planet – but no such luck.
though hey he does go back for his brother so he must have some empathy, though Maul himself just says ‘he has his uses’ (about his brother).
Overall this has been a fantastic series with lots of action and brilliant artwork.
Nice to see that the ‘demon in the light’ wasn’t Maul too and the Jedi, selflessly sacrifices himself.
Thankfully, Maul will live on and that means more action. This time he cut off some arms and unfroze his bros from carbonite.
wonder what he’ll do next time..
Lucas Originally Planned for 12 Star Wars Movies November 2, 2012
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Really interesting blog up on Star Wars.com the other day – the short version is that Lucas as early as 1976 planned on doing at least 12 Star Wars movies.
He even asked Mark Hamill (aka Luke Skywalker) about having a role in Episode 9.
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You know, when I first did this, it was four trilogies,” Mark Hamill recalled in 2004, speaking of their conversation in 1976. “Twelve movies! Out on the desert, any time between setups… lots of free time. And George was talking about this whole thing… ‘Um, how’d you like to be in Episode IX?’ ‘When is that going to be?’ ‘2011.’ […] I said, ‘Well, what do you want me to do?’ He said, ‘You’ll just be like a cameo. You’ll be like Obi-Wan handing the lightsaber down to the next new hope.’”
Disney CEO Promises New Star Wars films ‘Every Two Years!! October 30, 2012
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Disney is serious about Star Wars – sure they announced in the press release that we’d get Star Wars Episode 7 – but during a call with press and analysts, Disney’s CEO promised:
Star Wars Episodes 8, 9 AND 10!!!
“The last Star Wars movie release was 2005’s Revenge of the Sith and we believe there is substantial pent up demand,” Robert A. Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company said during the call. “In 2015 we are planning to release Star Wars episode 7 , that will be followed by episodes 8 and 9 and our long term plan is to release a new star wars feature film every two to three years.”
Star Wars Bathing Suit Models – for real October 10, 2012
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No you can’t find these at your local Walmart or Target…only from an online store called BlackMilk..
Star Wars Darth Maul Death Sentence #2 – Maul is a Good Guy?! September 26, 2012
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ok so Maul is back – he’s out with his brother and he’s looking to get revenge…
simple plot?
Not Quite.
You see the dude that wanted Maul dead isn’t so nice, even though the Jedi support him.
So in one of the greatest twists we have seen in a Star Wars comic in some time….
DARTH MAUL IS NOW ON THE RIGHT SIDE.
Maul is now going to help the displaced inhabitants of a planet against their Jedi backed overseers.
Nice twist.
Well executed plot, stunning graphics and an overall vibe made this a comic that we impossible for us to put down before reading cover to cover…
twice!!
Star Wars Dawn of the Jedi Force Storm – Is Xesh Really Evil? Great series… September 25, 2012
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The first five issues make up the ‘Force Storm’ story arc and yeah it’s mostly about the ‘storm’ that happens on Typhon when the Force Hound Xesh lands.
Xesh is an interesting character and to be honest, he’s the only one that really resonated with us through the first five issues. There are just too many characters in this series to keep track off, and hey Xesh is central and he’s the bad guy (think Vader).
At the end of issue five, he’s taken to Bodan – some kind of place on Typhon where bad guys can mediate on the light sight of the force…
Since in this era of the Jeedai (no typo – – no Jedi yet!) there are no Sith yet either…well not unless you count the Jeedai journeyman that is a pureblood sith but not Sith in the dark side of the force sense…
Anyways good fun, interesting read as a series. NO this doesn’t compare to John Ostrander last mega masterpiece – Star Wars Legacy (not even close), but it’s still an enjoyable plot line and one that we’re looking forward to reading about for at least another 45(?) issues.
Star Wars Errant Knight Escape #4. Odion Takes the Helm. AWESOME issue September 24, 2012
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Yeaah we know we’re a little behind on our comic review (but we’re catching up!!).
Knight Errant: Escape #4 is good solid fun.
Odion – the Sith we all love to hate is at his worst, making ppl kill each other, taunting Kerra and oh yeah – now wearing an ancient sith weapon of great power on his head too.
We also finally see more of Kerra’s parents – in a holorecording…
It’s clear that they no longer live…but there is another…
a brother?
a sister?
we’ll likely find out in the in the final issue coming up.
we’ll also see if Kerra finds her way out of the Odionate and what Damian will do to her…if he catches up to her that is..!
Star Wars Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison Series Finale : AWESOME September 23, 2012
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The final issue of Ghost Prison was a really great read. We knew that Vader would return to Coruscant with the Emperor and sure we knew that Gentis would get his arse kicked. We just didn’t know how.
Amazing twist with the Vader teaming up with Moff Tarkin (and hey isn’t he a Vader rivaL too?)
Great story overall – was fun to see how Vader dealt with the Ghost Prisoner in the end…perhaps a bit brutal and merciless but hey ..that’s Vader!!
Star Wars Ghost Prison #5 – Vader unleashes the Ghosts to retake Coruscant September 20, 2012
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Only one title that we’re really looking forward to this week.
Star Wars Ghost Prison #5 – This series is almost done…we’ve now got the ‘ghosts’ from Anakin’s past imprisonment on Vader’s side, the Emperor is on the mend..all that remains if for Vader and the Empire loyalist to retake Coruscant…
So far this has been an interesting series. We see Vader on the run, we get a bit of Anakin back story..and we see another side to the young days of the Empire…
an empire that sees the Emperor for what he is and aims to replace him…
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