Benicio Del Toro confirms Episode VIII role “might happen”

Benicio Del Toro has been recently rumoured as playing a villain in Episode VIII. Here’s what he told Entertainment Tonight: I can’t tell you much about it but I think that it might happen. It looks like it’s gonna happen so I’m very excited… I can’t talk too much about it. The script is hard to…

The new era of Star Wars starts… now

Back in October 2012, we all read the news that Star Wars was continuing on without George Lucas, instead under the guidance of Kathleen Kennedy. Since then there have been many developments, but today marks the point where it all begins to materialise. We’ve just had a great series of articles from Entertainment Weekly, and…

More Anthology rumours

Update: It’s a fake. Original story: Indie Revolver, who have a good track record when it comes to Star Wars scoops, just posted this image, supposedly a slide for the San Diego Comic Con presentation: If true, this alters the game a little bit: The Miller/Lord/Kasdan/Kasdan film will involve both Han Solo and Boba Fett…

Rebels season 1 coming to Blu-ray and DVD?

Florian at Jedi-Bibliothek has found listings for the complete first season of Rebels on the German Amazon site, in both Blu-ray and DVD formats. The DVD release will have a running time of 390 minutes, with the Blu-ray release apparently including an extra five minutes somewhere (e.g. an animatic). Both are scheduled for release on…

Lando #1 art revealed!

With Marvel’s Princess Leia miniseries set to wrap up in June, the next miniseries to get rolled out will be Lando, with issue #1 seeing release in July. Thanks to the Star Wars Upcoming Books & Comics Facebook page, here’s a black and white preview of Alex Maleev’s stunning art for issue #1: And as…

Translated Korean webcomic, chapters 3 and 4

Reddit user dropteacup has supplied us with English translations of chapters 3 and 4 of the Korean webcomic Story Before The Force Awakens. Here we see a retelling of Star Wars: A New Hope, from when Owen buys the droids until when Luke and Ben meet Han Solo. Enjoy!

Star Wars #6, Darth Vader #6 and Princess Leia #4 previews

Next week is going to be a big week for Marvel’s Star Wars comics, seeing the release of Star Wars #6 and Darth Vader #6, wrapping-up the Skywalker Strikes and Vader arcs respectively, as well as Princess Leia #4, the penultimate issue in that miniseries. Here’s a preview of Star Wars #6, thanks to Comic…