Star Wars

Lucasfilm President, Kathleen Kennedy, will be honored at the Oscar Wilde Awards this year along with her husband Frank Marshall, both of whom have long and illustrious careers as film producers. The ceremony will take place February 27 at the historic Ebell Theater in Los Angeles. Actors, John C. Reilly and Éanna Hardwicke will also be honored at this year’s ceremony.   Kathleen Kennedy, JJ Abrams, and George Lucas This is the 19th annual Oscar Wilde Awards, founded and hosted by the US-Ireland Alliance, which aims to foster relations between the U.S. and Ireland in the arts, as well as education, politics, and business fields. You may be thinking–Is Kathleen Kennedy Irish? She sure isn’t! While the Oscar Wilde Awards focus primarily on Irish accomplishments and talent both in Ireland ...

Shawn Levy’s Star Wars movie could be about to get some serious star power, with Ryan Gosling reportedly in talks to star in the film. Cameras could roll as soon as this fall. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gosling’s interest in doing a Star Wars movie has pushed the project to the front of the director’s schedule. The negotiations started late in the game and are supposedly the reason why Levy is now prioritizing Star Wars over another project in development, a boyband movie starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman for Paramount. Ryan Gosling’s interest in doing a Star Wars movie must not only have excited Shawn Levy, to the point that he is benching a reunion with his Deadpool & Wolverine stars — but also Lucasfilm. Not only would this jump ahead of schedule to become Levy’s ...

This week’s Star Wars Character Spotlight shines on Iden Versio, an Imperial special forces commando who commanded Inferno Squad during the reign of the Empire, before eventually defecting to the New Republic. Performed by actress Janina Gavankar, Versio was created especially for the 2017 video game Battlefront II’s story campaign, though she has appeared in other mediums since then.  Serving the Empire  Iden Versio was a firm believer in the Empire, as the daughter of ISB Admiral Garrick Versio and an Imperial propaganda designer. She was raised on the planet Vardos and trained to become a soldier for the Empire. Versio ascended the ranks quickly and ended up serving on the Death Star, which meant she was present on the battle station throughout the events of Rogue One and A New Hope....

Happy New Year! We have left 2024 behind, and now it’s time to focus on 2025, a year that will bring a lot of Star Wars content (though perhaps not as much as recently) and one that will also, hopefully, pave the way for even more projects to be released after. We have listed everything we know so far that is coming out, but it’s possible some other stuff may get announced later, especially on the publishing front. Live-Action Star Wars Series Coming in 2025 Skeleton Crew The last two episodes of the new Star Wars series Skeleton Crew will stream this month. The series, inspired by The Goonies and other 1980s Amblin films, focuses on a group of kids who get lost in outer space after finding a wrecked spaceship on their remote planet. In their adventures trying to get back home, they run...

Christmas has come early in the form of a surprise new Star Wars book announcement. According to an updated listing from Penguin Random House UK, the Bad Batch will be getting their own novel titled Star Wars: Sanctuary. Authored by Lamar Giles (From a Certain Point of View), the book will be released on August 5, 2025. What makes this particular listing interesting is that it appears to be the only such one, at the time of writing, that has been updated past its codename placeholder of “Tanner” or “Untitled Star Wars August Novel.” Therefore, while this is an official listing, we recommend keeping expectations relatively in check until more is revealed. Typically, once these listings appear online, an announcement is imminent so expect it by the end of the year or in early January. In ...