The long and complicated process of bringing back Obi-Wan Kenobi to today
Fact: it has been 17 years since we’ve seen Obi-Wan Kenobi. Yes, the character has been in Star Wars animated series in previous years, but we haven’t seen the originator[…]
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What it’s like to work at Lucasfilm
Happy Star Wars Day, DE! Lucasfilm, the production house that has made Star Wars and this unofficial holiday matter, is celebrating well today. As many know, George Lucas created to[…]
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A quick bullet point list demystifying Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser
It’s a difficult thing to describe what Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser is. Even Disney’s creative leaders seem to have found it hard to describe it themselves! In any case having[…]
Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser is basically “immersive theater,” according to its creative leaders
“So how exactly do you explain Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser?” It was a singular very valid question that Scott Trowbridge, a creative leader for all of Disney Parks’ Star Wars[…]
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Virtual reality and Meta Quest 2 is expanding the world of Batuu
Earlier this weekend, a new Star Wars VR experience opened at Downtown Disney in California, giving people a unique opportunity to explore more of aland just a few hundred feet[…]
Meet William “Bill” Ross, music arranger for Andrea Bocelli and Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
Just a few weeks ago, the Italian tenor icon that is Andrea Bocelli stood out on an empty plaza in Milan, Italy to give a sweet musical offering to the[…]
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Project Luminous will continue Star Wars storytelling by sharing its lore
Last night in the Disney executive dining room high atop its offices at Disney’s headquarters in Burbank, California, a very small group (including me) where invited to be the first[…]
Rise of the Resistance feels real because its design called for real things, says Lucasfilm VP Doug Chiang
George Lucas didn’t know it at the time, but his creation of Star Wars would generations of audiences to other worlds where space adventures and action could live and play.[…]
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Funko’s new flagship store in Hollywood basically consists of cute and amazing Disney photo ops
Everyone pretty much knows about Funko, the people who created the iconic POP! vinyl figurines that accompany every movie and TV show nowadays. You could only find the figures like[…]
“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” suffers from the all-pleasing nature of all finale movies [spoiler-free review]
SI’m sure it was a daunting task when Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy entrusted director J.J. Abrams to not only close out the Disney-Star Wars trilogy, but the entire Skywalker saga[…]
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People are saying that Rise of the Resistance is a “cinematic” experience and that’s absolutely true.
7:00 AM EST, December 4, 2019. I entered a theme park attraction and 20 roughly 20-minutes later, I stepped out of a movie. That’s not dichotomy or me writing poorly. That’s[…]
Watch the grand opening dedication of Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance at Walt Disney World resort
Earlier tonight, Walt Disney World held a grand opening dedication ceremony for its newest (and highly anticipated attraction) Rise of the Resistance in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disney’s Hollywood[…]