Star Wars

You Can Now Torrent a Blu-ray Version of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (If You Dare)

Well, it finally happened. After months of crappy cam videos, the Blu-ray version of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is available on torrent sites all over the internet. Let me be very honest with you, though: you probably shouldn’t download it. Lots and lots of people are downloading it, however. Torrent Freak reports that 250,000…

Marvel’s Star Wars Comic Gives Us an Origin for Empire Strikes Back‘s Funniest Moment

It’s one of the greatest insults in sci-fi movie history: Princess Leia calling Han Solo a “stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking Nerf herder!” Now, Marvel’s increasingly delightful Star Wars comic has given us an insight into just how the galaxy’s most loveable smuggler earned that particular insult. Very minor spoilers ahead for Star Wars #17 by…

Lego’s The Force Awakens Game Looks Like It Will Be Totally Worth the Wait

The video game versions of blockbuster movies are usually made available close to the film’s release to capitalize on the hype, but the Lego video game version of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is six months late. Watching the game’s latest trailer, though, the wait appears to have been worth it. Not only does the…

How The Force Awakens Should Have Ended, As Told Through Lego

You can’t please everyone when it comes to resurrecting one of the most beloved franchises in film history. So if you were disappointed with how Star Wars: The Force Awakens ended, maybe you’ll prefer the How It Should Have Ended alternate finale featuring Kylo Ren getting his comeuppance. As a bonus, this HISHE was animated…

Who Decided to Only Put 4GB of Storage In This Rey’s Speeder Flash Drive?

There was a lot of potential when someone at Disney decided to turn Rey’s Speeder into a USB flash drive. That is, until the company decided to cheap out and put a paltry 4GB of storage in it. It won’t even be able to hold the HD digital copy of The Force Awakens you’re so…

Watch Harrison Ford Gleefully Refuse to Say He’s Done With the Star Wars Sequels

We probably shouldn’t read too much into it, but Harrison Ford returned yet again to Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote The Force Awakens, coming soon on digital download (god knows it needed the press). But when Kimmel asked him if he was definitely not coming back for more sequels, Ford playfully dodged the question… repeatedly.…

A Masterful Paint Job Makes This Millennium Falcon Toy Look Like a Star Wars Movie Prop

It’s no secret that professional model makers often use the same plastic model kits you can buy at a hobby shop, they’re just highly skilled at painting them to look incredibly realistic. Tristan Elliott instead started with Hasbro’s Battle Action Millennium Falcon toy, and with a little extra paint, turned it into a near-flawless film…

Marvel’s Rogue One Comic Is a Prequel to a Prequel

The first time you see the heroes of Star Wars: Rogue One in action will no longer be when Rogue One hits theaters this December—it’ll be in a new prequel comic being released by Marvel, ahead of the film’s release. Announced at a Diamond Comics pre-C2E2 event in Chicago, the three-issue Rogue One miniseries (and…

The Secrets of Writing Good Star Wars, According to West End Games

Earlier this month, Lucasfilm’s Star Wars loremaster Pablo Hidalgo posted extracts from a 1994 Star Wars style guide on social media, presenting a wonderfully prescient window into how the early creators of the Expanded Universe saw Star Wars. The whole guide has even more intriguing insights to offer. https://gizmodo.com/this-1994-star-wars-style-guide-proves-hindsight-is-a-w-1762193119 We managed to obtain a full…

Relive the Tragic History of Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano Before Their Epic Battle

The second season of Star Wars Rebels will conclude on March 30 with an hour-long episode and a major battle—a battle fans have been waiting for for years, but the combatants never saw coming. It’s the battle between Anakin Skywalker and his former apprentice, Ahsoka Tano. In preparation for this epic showdown, Lucasfilm has graciously…

23 Things That Weren’t Actually in Star Wars

George Lucas is a toy-maker as much as he is a director, which explains why we know what to call half the things in the Star Wars universe. AT-ATs, the Sith, A-Wings, and Ewoks. We know what they are—through the prequels, the toys, and the extended universe—but they’re absolutely never called those things by name…

Will We Ever Learn George Lucas’ Original Plan for Star Wars: Episode VII?

Good day to you, one and all! (But especially the one. You know who you are.) The week you guys asked if The 100 will fix its own stupid mistake, whether the Netflix shows are too dark for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and when to tell your kid that Darth Vader is actually Luke’s father.…

A Ton of Unbelievable New Star Wars and Indiana Jones Art Is Coming

If you’re a pop culture collector, there’s no shortage of art from Lucasfilm’s two biggest properties: Star Wars and Indiana Jones. But now two of the biggest companies in the game, Mondo and Acme Archives, are teaming up to bring you even more, and these pieces look fantastic. The first piece is out this week.…

One of These Dudes Is Young Han Solo (Probably)

Disney and Lucasfilm have apparently whittled the list of actors who could star in the Han Solo origin movie down from every young man in Hollywood to just three people: Taron Egerton, Jack Reynor, and Alden Ehrenreich. https://gizmodo.com/every-male-actor-ever-is-trying-to-get-cast-as-the-youn-1745699743 According to a report from THR, Disney is now in the final stages of casting the man…

Hot Wheels Rolls Out Four New Character Cars, But Wonder Woman Steals the Show

In support of Women’s History Month, today Hot Wheels revealed four new character cars based on female headliners from Marvel, DC, and Star Wars. But the star of today’s miniature auto show is definitely the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Wonder Woman character car. Its gold and red paint job is carried through to…

A Brand New Star Wars VR Experience Put Me on Tatooine and It Was Incredible

Yesterday, I stood on Tatooine, under two suns, and watched the Millennium Falcon land. This was the first-ever demo of Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine, the new virtual reality “experience” from Industrial Light and Magic’s ILMxLab. It was awesome—and then I got to swing a lightsaber. To test out Trials on Tatooine, I put on…

See the First Photos of Brand New Aliens and Ships in Star Wars Episode VIII

Director Rian Johnson has been filming Star Wars Episode VIII for a few weeks now, but most of the work has been conducted behind closed doors. That changed recently—the production has shifted to Dubrovnik, Croatia. Outside filming means spy photos and in them, we get our first look at some new aliens and ships. Here…

Long-running Star Wars podcast TheForceCast is closing down. Run by TheForce.net for a decade, the podcast has been a major touchstone of Star Wars Fandom. Behind the scenes changes and uproar over the show’s new direction brought it to a halt. Tosche Station has an in depth look. Contact the author at [email protected].

There’s A Life-Sized First Order TIE Fighter At SXSW This Year

If you’re anywhere near this year’s SXSW in Texas, you owe it to yourself to check out one really cool exhibit: a life-sized First Order TIE Fighter, constructed by prop building group Project X1. The group is run by Belgian 501st Legion members, who have a reputation for building insanely detailed, life sized props: since…

Even The Empire’s Elite Soldiers Fall In Love, According To Bara Heiða’s Video For ‘Stormtrooper’

In Bara Heiða’s track ‘Stormtrooper, an Imperial stormtrooper is left behind in a strange world and finds love. It’s a cute, entertaining music video. Bara Heiða is a folk/pop band that hails from Reykjavik, Iceland, and they’ve produced a bunch of great songs with some fantastic music videos. The band describes the song as a…