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TV Review: Disney+’s The Mandalorian Offers A New Hope for the Star Wars...
The Pitch: A bounty hunter seeks out his target. That’s the deceptively simple premise that powers The Mandalorian’s first ride across the galaxy. After the fall of the Empire, our would-be hero earns...
View ArticleThe Journey to Star Wars Episode IX Begins
Download | Listen and subscribe via iTunes | Spotify | Google Play | Radio Public | Stitcher | RSSTo keep tabs on the ever-growing pop culture zeitgeist that is Star Wars, we bring you State...
View ArticleEarly Drafts of George Lucas’ Willow Are a Very Different Adventure
Download | Listen and subscribe via iTunes | Spotify | Google Play | Radio Public | Stitcher | RSSWelcome to Willow Watch! State of the the Empire‘s spin-off podcast dedicated to the 1988...
View ArticleStar Wars: Episode IX Leaks and the Phantom Menace of Fake News
Download | Listen and subscribe via iTunes | Spotify | Google Play | Radio Public | Stitcher | RSSTo keep tabs on the ever-growing pop culture zeitgeist that is Star Wars, we bring you State...
View ArticleLucasfilm’s Twice Upon a Time Is a Baffling Bastion of Innovation
Download | Listen and subscribe via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Radio Public | Stitcher | RSSThis episode of State of the Empire widens our lens to the rest of Lucasfilm and...
View ArticleCelebrate Willow’s 30th Anniversary at North Carolina Comicon
Thirty years ago, Lucasfilm unleashed an unparalleled fantasy epic on unsuspecting audiences: Willow.Helmed by George Lucas, directed by Ron Howard, and starring Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, and Joanne...
View ArticleSimon Pegg misses George Lucas after seeing The Last Jedi
It’s almost been a year since The Last Jedi hit theaters. Since then, the Star Wars fanbase has devolved into an insufferable wasteland, where fans draw their blasters at every other disagreement. It...
View ArticleThe Star Wars Holiday Special Should Never Be Forgotten
While the debates among the Star Wars faithful rage on — about how each film should be ranked, which events are canon, or who shot whom and when — one simple truth remains. However high its highs,...
View ArticleR.I.P. Gloria Katz, Indiana Jones and Star Wars screenwriter has died at 76
Gloria Katz, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and longtime collaborator of George Lucas, has died at the age of 76.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Katz passed away Sunday in Los Angeles following a...
View ArticleR.I.P. Peter Mayhew, legendary Star Wars actor who played Chewbacca, has died...
Peter Mayhew, English-American actor best known for portraying Han Solo’s wookie sidekick Chewbacca in multiple Star Wars movies, has passed away at the age of 74.His family confirmed the news this...
View ArticleClassic Film Review: The Star Wars Saga Will Never See a Chapter Like The...
When J.J. Abrams was hired to shepherd Star Wars: The Force Awakens to the big screen, his duties amounted to a single, incredibly difficult task: Don’t screw it up. He didn’t necessarily have to make...
View ArticleGeorge Lucas felt Disney “betrayed” him and the franchise with Star Wars: The...
George Lucas has long expressed muted indifference to the direction Disney has taken his iconic Star Wars franchise. There’s the occasional “I really liked it” or a nod to how “beautifully made” the...
View ArticleDisney+ made another weird change to Star Wars’“Who shot first?” scene
Disney+ went live today with its fair share of glitches. To be fair, that’s not entirely surprising for a major technological product launch. What was unexpected, however, was a bizarre change made to...
View ArticleTV Review: Disney+’s The Mandalorian Offers A New Hope for the Star Wars...
The Pitch: A bounty hunter seeks out his target. That’s the deceptively simple premise that powers The Mandalorian’s first ride across the galaxy. After the fall of the Empire, our would-be hero earns...
View ArticleRanking: Every Star Wars Movie and Series from Worst to Best
This feature was originally published in December 2015.A long time ago, we were just stargazing kids, worshiping our letterbox collection of George Lucas’ original Star Wars trilogy. Years later, the...
View ArticleLEGO Star Wars Holiday Special Isn’t the Christmas Classic You’re Looking...
The Pitch: Life Day hits television screens for the first time since 1978! In a streaming special inspired by the infamous original, this time it’s the Sequel Trilogy characters who join together for...
View ArticleHan Solo’s Blaster from Star Wars Auctions for Over $1 Million
The blaster that created the million-dollar question “Who shot first?” for generations of Star Wars fans has now become the million-dollar smoking gun, as the prop used by Harrison Ford’s character Han...
View ArticleWillow Review: Fantasy Television That’s Here For a Good Time
The Disney+ sequel series to Ron Howard and George Lucas's 1988 fantasy adventure has its flaws, but is also a lot of fun. Willow Review: Fantasy Television That’s Here For a Good Time Liz Shannon Miller
View ArticleGeorge Lucas Made American Graffiti to Prove He Was Human
Some movies are remarkable achievements on their own, and some movies need some extra context to appreciate. George Lucas’s breakout 1973 feature American Graffiti is one of those — the charming...
View ArticleStar Wars: Episode IX Leaks and the Phantom Menace of Fake News
Download | Listen and subscribe via iTunes | Spotify | Google Play | Radio Public | Stitcher | RSS To keep tabs on the ever-growing pop culture zeitgeist that is Star Wars, we bring you State...
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