Rian Johnson Says New Star Wars Trilogy Will Honor Franchise Spirit
With Star Wars: The Last Jedi arriving on Blu-ray and DVD last week, director Rian Johnson has been making the press rounds, where he also addressed his new Star Wars trilogy that he’s developing for LucasFilm. While trying to get any concrete plot details out of the filmmaker may be an exercise in …
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Why Star Wars: The Last Jedi Cut So Many Finn Scenes, According To Rian Johnson
Finn was one of the many new protagonists introduced in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and going into Star Wars: The Last Jedi, he continued to be an important player in the story revolving around the conflict between The First Order and The Resistance. However, if you look through The Last Jedi’s …
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Star Wars 8 HORROR: Rian Johnson reveals DEATH THREATS from angry fans
However, Star Wars 8 seemd to attract a particularly hardcore backlash, centred on the accusation that Rian Johnson had somehow betrayed the Star Wars legacy. And yes, even this website sided with those fans and we listed our greatest issues with the movie and our unhappiness with Johnson’s …
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Cleveland Orchestra plans early release of ‘Star Wars’ Blossom concert tickets
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Gunning for a ticket to “Star Wars: A New Hope,” as performed by the Cleveland Orchestra? Get ready to jump into hyperspace this Thursday morning. In anticipation of high demand, the orchestra today announced plans for an early release of individual tickets to its Blossom Music …
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge lacks Star Wars knowledge
Phoebe Waller-Bridge knew nothing about the ‘Star Wars‘ franchise when she took on her role in ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’. The 32-year-old actress is set to star as a droid named L3-37 in the upcoming spin-off movie of the popular sci-fi franchise, which details the early years of intergalactic smuggler …
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Han Solo movie: Star Wars ‘angry’ fan BACKLASH against THIS new character – Guess why?
Star Wars continues to delight and divide fans in a modern world of outspoken social media opinions. With the endless Last Jedi backlashes still rumbling on, it’s about time the Han Solo movie started generating its own controversies. A new TV advert in the US just revealed several striking new alien …
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Rian Johnson Will Capture The Spirit of Star Wars In New Trilogy
Rian Johnson’s upcoming new Star Wars trilogy might not feature any familiar characters, but the director will still maintain the franchise’s trademark spirit. Johnson had such a great experience with Lucasfilm on last year’s The Last Jedi that all the parties involved opted to keep the collaboration going by …
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Star Wars fans spend $3.85M to back Jabba’s Barge, Hasbro’s biggest Star Wars toy vehicle ever
Star Wars geeks are going to get Jabba’s Sail Barge, a nearly 4-foot-long replica of the vehicle that was featured in “Return of the Jedi.” The transport ship, also known as The Khetanna, was funded through Hasbro’s first use of its new crowd-funding platform, HasLab. The company sought 5,000 backers …
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Han Solo Movie Has Dumbest Star Wars Character Name Yet
Ok, so Jar Jar Binks sounds like one of the Teletubbies’ long lost junkyard friends, and Elan Sleazebaggano is just lazy writing on George Lucas’ part. But a new Star Wars alien being introduced in this May’s Solo may have just won the prize for dumbest Star Wars name yet. And that’s no small feat.
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Star Wars: Episode IX will be ‘all-out war’ as Rey and Finn reunite
In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s Finn went on separate adventures but it looks like the duo are set to reunite in the next episode. The director of The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams, is stepping behind the lens again and we’re very curious to see where Rey’s newly …
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Denny’s Reveals Its Han Solo-Themed Menu for the ‘Star Wars’ Spinoff
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia saved the universe from the clutches of an evil empire. And an even longer time ago, a younger Han Solo went on adventures of his own, which is the premise of the upcoming film Solo: A Star Wars Story as well as …
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Rian Johnson Understands What Star Wars Needs to Do in Order to Survive
In the last three years, we’ve had three Star Wars movies come out—and a fourth is just months away. Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm has presented a huge boon in terms of new Star Wars material, but when is it all too much? Rian Johnson, at least, has some heartening thoughts about how to avoid …
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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ director Rian Johnson said he got death threats from enraged fans
“The Last Jedi” divided “Star Wars” fans in an extreme way. People either loved it or they hated it. While some regard it as one of the best movies in the saga, on par with “The Empire Strikes Back,” some despise it, maybe even more than the prequels. And some people who despised “The Last Jedi” sent …
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Solo: A Star Wars Story will contain a character named Therm Scissorpunch, so there’s that
Your local Denny’s, that wretched hive of scum and villainy, is no longer at war only with your digestive system, but the stars themselves. Adopting the runt of the new Star Wars film litter, Solo, as a marketing partner, the restaurant chain has hit a real Grand Slamwich with a new commercial that shows off …
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Denny’s unveils new Star Wars menu
(WRDW/WAGT) — Denny’s restaurants across the country are rolling out a brand new menu, in honor of a time-honored film – Star Wars. The new menu is available 24/7. It is in collaboration with the newest installment of the franchise, Solo: A Star Wars Story. Some of the items included are co-reactor …
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Hasbro’s biggest Star Wars toy costs £355 and weighs over six kilos
CALLING all Jedi: there’s a new must-own Star Wars toy that weighs in at more than six kilograms – and it’ll cost you hundreds of pounds to buy. … The huge barge has removable side panels that allow owners to place tiny figurines inside – like iconic Star Wars characters like Jabba the Hutt and Yak …
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Why so many of Finn’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi scenes were cut, according to Rian Johnson
With the imminent arrival of Star Wars: The Last Jedi on Blu-ray and DVD, we’re starting to see some of the scenes that were cut from Rian Johnson’s two-and-a-half-hour epic. And we couldn’t help notice that a lot of them feature John Boyega’s Finn. There’s the alternate opening that features Finn.
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Coming to a galaxy near you: Denny’s serving Star Wars eats
Denny’s guests can also snag one of Denny’s Limited Edition “Solo: A Star Wars Story” collector cups emblazoned with the images of movie characters and sealed with a Millenium Falcon lid. Exclusive tradition card packs will also be sold at Denny’s. Proceeds from the sale of all trading card packs will …
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Denny’s debuts Star Wars-themed Solo menu
On Monday, The Spartanburg, S.C.-based restaurant launched a series of exclusive promotions tied to the soon-to-be released “Solo: A Star Wars Story” movie, including trading cards and limited-item meals inspired by the film. The LucasFilm collaboration kicked off Monday with a 60-second national …
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See Chewbacca and new Star Wars aliens in Denny’s ad
Mos Eisley Cantina might have the strongest drinks in the galaxy, but apparently Denny’s is where the usual hive of scum and villainy go to get their scrambled eggs and bacon. In a new marketing cross-over campaign between Denny’s and Disney, Star Wars fans can fill up on geeky-themed meals and …
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Mark Hamill Is Worried We’re Getting Too Many ‘Star Wars’ Movies
On the promo tour for the release of the latest Star Wars movie on DVD and Blu-ray, Mark Hamill has been dropping little nuggets of info and opinions all over the place. Just last week he revealed George Lucas’s vision for the end of the current trilogy and today, he’s expressed his concerns over the …
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On the other side of ‘The Last Jedi,’ director Rian Johnson found the ‘Star Wars’ journey he was …
Four years ago, he walked into a meeting with Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy, then looking to hire new blood to helm the eighth “Star Wars” film, and … What brought the “Star Wars” bus to Texas was the premiere of the feature-length making-of documentary “The Director and the Jedi,” which …
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Star Wars Han Solo Movie Aliens Revealed In New Promo
Alien creatures are an essential part of the Star Wars universe–from the shady denizens of the original movie’s Mos Eisley cantina to the gambling creatures of Canto Bight in The Last Jedi, every new movie in the franchise introduces a host of weird alien creations. The upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story …
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Rian Johnson explains his approach to his new Star Wars trilogy
Rian Johnson has a busy few years ahead. Having recently completed The Last Jedi, he now has a mysterious Star Wars spin-off trilogy in the works. The director is still in the early stages of planning those movies, but he revealed to Digital Spy how he is approaching a story separate from the Skywalker …
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Star Wars: Solo – New Characters Revealed
As you’d expect, this spring’s A Star Wars Story spin-off, Solo, will contain more than a few exotic alien characters – and Denny’s of all places has given us an early look at a few more of them. As part of the usual merchandising bonanza we get around a Star Wars release, Denny’s is introducing a whole …
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