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Disney+ Unveils Trailer & Key Art for “Star Wars: Tales of the Empire”

Today, Disney+ released the trailer, key art and trailer stills for Lucasfilm’s upcoming original animated series Star Wars: Tales of the Empire. The second installment of the Tales anthologies stylistically follows 2022’s critically acclaimed Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi.

Tales of the Empire launches exclusively on Disney+ on Star Wars Day, May 4, with all six episodes.

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Synopsis: Star Wars: Tales of the Empire is a six-episode journey into the fearsome Galactic Empire through the eyes of two warriors on divergent paths, set during different eras. After losing everything, young Morgan Elsbeth navigates the expanding Imperial world toward a path of vengeance, while former Jedi Barriss Offee does what she must to survive a rapidly changing galaxy. The choices they make will define their destinies.

The voice cast includes Diana Lee Inosanto as Morgan Elsbeth, Meredith Salenger as Barriss Offee, Rya Kihlstedt as Lyn (a.k.a. Fourth Sister), Wing T. Chao as Wing, Lars Mikkelsen as Thrawn, Jason Isaacs as Grand Inquisitor and Matthew Wood as General Grievous.

Dave Filoni created the series and is the supervising director. He is also an executive producer along with Athena Yvette Portillo and Carrie Beck. Josh Rimes serves as co-executive producer and Alex Spotswood is the senior producer.

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scifi4wifi · 6 years

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1st Look: "Star Wars Resistance" Trailer #1

1st Look: “Star Wars Resistance” Trailer #1

The trailer for the new Star Wars animated series Star Wars Resistance on Disney XD has finally dropped, and it’s a departure from all the 3d animated series we’ve seen from Lucasfilm so far. Pause the Krypton Radio music stream at the upper right, and watch.

Christopher Sean, whom we think is playing Kazuda Xiono. This may…

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zareleonis · 5 years

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My Star Wars Top 10 of 2018

This year I fell massively in love with Star Wars, learned more about a galaxy far, far away that I ever expected and started this blog, first to liveblog Star Wars Rebels, and later to share my thoughts on whatever new (and old!) Star Wars media I came across. In honor of what, in my mind, was a really fun year for Star Wars, I wanted to share my top 10 list of my favorite Star Wars things that came out this year, across different kinds of media. Read more because it’s really long :P

Honorable Mention: Flight of the Falcon multimedia series (by multiple authors and artists)

Okay, if I’m honest, this gets honorable mention spot, mostly because I felt like putting it in top 10 when it’s really a BUNCH of comics and books would be totally cheating :P One of the more fun things to come out of Solo: A Star Wars Story, this series of loosely connected books and comics whose main connecting factor is the Millennium Falcon (and Bazine Netal’s hunt for it!) is an absolute joy. Cavan Scott knocks it out of the park with the ridiculously fun Choose Your Destiny: A Luke and Leia Adventure. IDW Comics does what’s it does best by bringing together some exciting and unexpected pairs of characters for the last couple months of Star Wars Adventures. In Lando’s Luck Justina Ireland gave us the coolest darn Princess in Star Wars since Leia, Rinetta Gan. And they’re not even done yet, with 2 more comics and Pirate’s Price left to go!

10. Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy’s Most Notorious by Pablo Hidalgo

What an awesome and fun book! So much great art, and Pablo Hidalgo always gives 100% with his work. It’s such a creative concept, following Tan Divo and and his descendants, as they report on the criminals and rebels of their day. I completely geeked out over how it gave soooo much neat new information about characters and organizations from ALL OVER the Star Wars universe. It’s an absolute blast!

9. Solo: A Star Wars Story: Tales from Vandor by Jason Fry

This book is AMAZING. Even among the “replica journal” style books that Studio Fun puts out, it stands out as super unique, written from the point of view of the Midnight, the bartender at The Lodge on Vandor (where Han meets Lando), as if he is telling the story to a guest. It’s such a fun outsider’s point of view of Han and the other characters of Solo. The best part though, is the parts of the book that are just a shameless love letter to Star Wars Legends, with nods to stuff like The Wookiee Storybook, LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace and several novels. Jason Fry’s love for the franchise really shines through.

8. Star Wars: Poe Dameron by Charles Soule and penciller Angel Unzueta

This year we said a bittersweet goodbye to Marvel’s monthly Star Wars: Poe Dameron and goodness gracious it was good. Between the Legend Found arc that was to be the original ending and the final The Awakening arc, where Black Squadron is reunited after The Last Jedi, this comic really touched my heart. The last couple pages of issues 25 and 31 still make me cry. :’)

7. Solo: A Star Wars Story directed by Ron Howard and screenplay by Lawrence and Jon Kasdan

THIS MOVIE IS CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED AND I’M MAD AT EVERYONE WHO LET IT FLOP. I’ll admit I wasn’t exactly desperate for a Han Solo Backstory Movie, but Solo was just AWESOME. Just some good, raw, Star Wars-y fun that you can’t help but smile the whole way through. It might not be groundbreaking, but it introduced some super cool characters in L3-37, Qi’ra and Enfys Nest, gave us Maul’s grand triumphant return to the public at large and has INCREDIBLY charming performances by Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover as the Han and Lando we all come to love.

6. The Mighty Chewbacca in the Forest of Fear! by Tom Angleberger

If Solo, is good, this kid’s book written to accompany it is even better. I mean, Chewbacca meets K-2SO meets Tooka cats meets teenage bounty hunter/librarian?? On a planet with scary monsters and a spooky evil Force user? Also Cassian is there?? And the daughter of This Funny Hat Dude from Return of the Jedi? Hell yeah!!!!!

The book is hysterical, ridiculously fun and I can’t recommend it enough. I just have to say if you do get it, try and grab the audiobook it’s got a full cast of voices for the main characters including Marc Thompson giving his best Shyriiwook as Chewbacca. I laughed so hard I cried at the narration and a K-2SO’s lines done out loud. You won’t regret it!

5. Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy by Amy Ratcliffe and eighteen awesome artists!

THIS is one of the coolest Star Wars books out there and a celebration of all the women we know and love (and sometimes hate) in a galaxy far, far away. It’s such a wonderful collaboration, created by all women (& non-binary) artists and author. I love that it’s got characters from practically everything—movies, books, comics, video games, you name it! We even got to see characters like Jas Emari for the first time which makes me SO HAPPY. it’s one of the books I come back to all the time just to flip through it and enjoy the illustrations.

4. Star Wars Resistance created by Dave Filoni and executive produced by Athena Yvette Portillo, Justin Ridge, and Brandon Auman

I LOVE RESISTANCE SO MUCH!! I didn’t quiiite know what to expect with the new animated series, but was super excited and it hasn’t disappointed one bit. It’s such a fun show and really enjoyable to have a Star Wars show that is almost just ‘slice of life’ compared to the others. The animation is so cool to me and the characters really cute. I’m ridiculously charmed by all of them, especially our main man Kazuda Xiono and really hyped to see where these characters go. It’s more happy and fun than anything, but I know it will break my heart to pieces soon enough (KAZUDA XIONO. HOME PLANET: HOSNIAN PRIME). I hope more people give it a chance because it really is awesome!

3. Star Wars Adventures: Tales from Vader's Castle by Cavan Scott and various artists

LET THIS BE MY LOVE LETTER TO CAVAN SCOTT AND ALL THE COOL AND AWESOME STUFF HE’S DONE WITH THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE!! I was soooo excited when these came out because it’s such an AWESOME idea, I mean? Star Wars Horror story one-shots connected by a wider plot??? YES PLEASE AND THANK YOU. Doubly so when they star Lina Graf, of the Adventures in Wild Space series by Cavan Scott and Tom Huddleston. I was soooo excited to see her again and it’s amazing to see how she’s grown from a young kid to a brave and capable pilot and Commander in the Rebellion.

Then the individual stories are just awesome. It was a joy to see Kanan and Hera back together again after Rebels (or, well, pre-Rebels). The Dooku story was just amazing and such an enthusiastic tribute to Christopher Lee as Dracula. The Frozen inspired Han and Chewie story was also pretty great and I LOVE that it referenced the events of The Mighty Chewbacca in the Forest of Fear! And, my personal favorite story, the spooky ewok story featuring a young Chief Chirpa and Logray was brilliant and I enjoyed getting a closer first-hand look at ewoks (something we don’t have much of, at least in canon!). All in all just an absolute masterpiece in my book and a great reminder of why IDW Comics’ Star Wars stuff has been so freaking awesome.

2. Join the Resistance: Attack on Starkiller Base by Ben Blacker and Ben Acker and illustrated by Annie Wu

I’M BACK AT IT YELLING ABOUT WHY MORE PEOPLE NEED TO CARE ABOUT THESE WONDERFUL, CHARMING LITTLE KIDS’ BOOKS!! This was such a perfect end to the J-Squadron kids’ story. To me, this series is such a hidden gem and I really hope more people give it a chance. It was wonderful how all the characters’ stories closed out. I loved seeing Jo finally openly defy his parents, Mattis putting his faith in the Force and his friends, the return of Klimo, AG-90 and Dec fighting as brothers but growing stronger for it, and Lorica becoming the hero everybody thought she was. There’s so many fun cameos, from Rey, to Hux to Poe and Black Squadron, with the backdrop of the actual climactic battle in The Force Awakens.

And, one thing I really want to talk about that I love, is how the book (in tandem with the first two) give us the first gay character in a Star Wars kids book, with Dec Hansen. I wish they could’ve said it a bit more explicitly, but we actually got the kid and his friends talking about it in the books? And, with most of the LGBT characters falling more on the “scum and villainy” circles of the galaxy, it’s so refreshing to see a brave and unambiguously heroic gay teenage starfighter pilot trainee. Like, holy shit that actually happened!!!! ANYWAYS READ THIS SERIES I LOVE THEM AND YOU SHOULD TOO.

Oh, also, Annie Wu’s illustrations are AWESOME and I hope she does more Star Wars stuff (Pirate’s Price, out in a week!)

1. Star Wars Rebels created by Dave Filoni, Simon Kinberg and Carrie Beck

I don’t think there’s way I could place anything but Rebels at #1. This show changed my life in so many ways and I’m just. ridiculously thankful it exists. without Rebels, I wouldn’t have this blog, I wouldn’t be up to my ears obsessed with Star Wars and I there’s so many friends I wouldn’t have either. It’s touched my heart in a way that.... gosh I don’t know if I can even think about anything that resonates with me quite in the way Star Wars Rebels has. Pretty sure most if not all of my followers have seen Rebels, haha, but if you haven’t. You won’t regret it. Well, you might. It hurts. I hate to say, but it does. But even if the end destination leaves you heartbroken and uh prone to randomly bursting into tears about it, you will never regret the journey. Everything I learned and experienced with Ezra, Kanan, Hera, Sabine, Zeb and Chopper is beyond precious to me and I’m thankful it exists because it made my year in so many ways.

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voyager-into-the-unknown · 6 years

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Star Wars Rebels earns 3 Emmy nominations

The Emmy nominations for Star Wars Rebels are as follows:

Outstanding Children’s Program

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Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.

Simon Kinberg, Executive Producer

Dave Filoni, Executive Producer

Henry Gilroy, Co-Executive Producer

Kiri Hart, Producer

Carrie Beck, Producer

Athena Yvette Portillo, Producer

Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic Score)

Star Wars Rebels • Family Reunion – And Farewell • Disney XD

Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.

Music by Kevin Kiner

Outstanding Sound Editing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation

Star Wars Rebels • A World Between Worlds • Disney XD

Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.

Matthew Wood, Co-Supervising Sound Editor

David Acord, Co-Supervising Sound Editor

Bonnie Wild, Sound Editor

Sean Kiner, Music Editor

Ronni Brown, Foley Artist

Margie O’Malley, Foley Artist

Source: https://deadline.com/2018/07/2018-emmy-nominations-list-all-nominees-1202425072/

#star wars rebels #star wars rebels season 4 #swr #kevin kiner #dave filoni #2018 emmy nominations

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starwarsoficialchile · 4 years

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🔺BREVE RESEÑA🔺 Resistance Star Wars: La Resistencia es una serie animada de televisión en marcha que se estrenó el 7 de octubre de 2018, de manera regular en Disney Channel. La serie fue creada por Dave Filoni y producida ejecutivamente por Athena Yvette Portillo, Justin Ridge y Brandon Auman. Está protagonizada por Christopher Sean, Suzie McGrath, Scott Lawrence, Myrna Velasco, Josh Brener, Donald Faison, Bobby Moynihan y Jim Rash, con apariciones de Oscar Isaac como Poe Dameron y Gwendoline Christie como la capitana Phasma. #starwars #starwarsoficialchile #swoc #disney #lucasfilm #Resistance https://www.instagram.com/p/CCSSvoEAmQe/?igshid=1mbdf564zv1qx

#starwars #starwarsoficialchile #swoc #disney #lucasfilm #resistance

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grizbehr · 7 years

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Outstanding Children's Program - 2017

Girl Meets World

Disney Channel

Michael Jacobs, Executive Producer

Frank Pace, Co-Executive Producer

Matthew Nelson, Co-Executive Producer

Mark Blutman, Co-Executive Producer

Jeff Menell, Co-Executive Producer

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 90th Celebration

NBC

Brad Lachman, Executive Producer

Bill Bracken, Co-Executive Producer

Matt Lachman, Producer

Once Upon A Sesame Street Christmas

HBO

Brown Johnson, Executive Producer

Ken Scarborough, Co-Executive Producer

Benjamin Lehmann, Supervising Producer

Karyn Leibovich, Producer

Stephanie Longardo, Producer

Mindy Fila, Producer

School Of Rock

Nickelodeon

Jim Armogida, Executive Producer

Steve Armogida, Executive Producer

Jay Kogen, Executive Producer

Scott Rudin, Executive Producer

Eli Bush, Executive Producer

Richard Linklater, Executive Producer

Steve Skrovan, Co-Executive Producer

Suzie Freeman, Co-Executive Producer

Sara Cunningham, Co-Executive Producer

Harry Hannigan, Producer

Chris Arrington, Produced by

Star Wars Rebels

Disney XD

Simon Kinberg, Executive Producer

Dave Filoni, Executive Producer

Henry Gilroy, Co-Executive Producer

Kiri Hart, Producer

Carrie Beck, Producer

Athena Yvette Portillo, Producer

#girl meets world #emmys 2017 #outstanding children's programing #nomination

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ralphmorgan-blog1 · 6 years

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Cantina Talk: Star Wars: Episode IX Just Recruited a Doctor

It might be fall, but that doesn't mean there's a new Star Wars movie to look forward to. This year there's no new installment coming in December. Kind of a bummer, no? Yes, yes it is. But! That doesn't mean there's nothing Star Wars-related to tell you about these days. In fact, there's a lot. Let's get to it right now.

Finally, the Doctor Visits a Long Time Ago…

The Source: Movie trade bible Variety

Probability of Accuracy: It's something that's been confirmed by other outlets, so let's assume this is correct.

The Real Deal: The cast list for Star Wars: Episode IX just keeps growing and growing. The latest addition? Former Doctor Who Time Lord and Crown Prince, Matt Smith. His role is, of course, unknown for now, but let's be honest: If ever an actor was perfect to play a First Order officer, it's Matt Smith. Just look at that face! Also, have you ever heard him speak? Perfection. Smith will join other franchise newcomers Keri Russell, Richard E. Grant, and Dominic Monaghan in the new movie, alongside returning stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, and Adam Driver. The movie is currently in production and set to be released in December 2019, so very, very far away from now.

Solo Gets a Writing Upgrade

The Source: An official novelization and expansion (and the promotion thereof)

Probability of Accuracy: This is all in-canon; it's as accurate as it gets.

The Real Deal: The novelization of Solo: A Star Wars Story actually has the title Solo: A Star Wars Story Expanded Edition, and there's a reason for that—it really does add a lot to what appeared onscreen, with excerpts released on the official Star Wars site introducing a tie-in to Rogue One and building on the final fate for L3-3T, much to some people's concern. In a related interview, author Mur Lafferty commented on the movie's shortcomings—"Val deserved more time to explore her character a little bit"— and also attempted to address them. The book is available now, and who knows? Maybe it’ll make you like the movie a little more.

Is Rian Johnson's Trilogy Under Threat?

The Source: People who know and people who don’t, basically

Probability of Accuracy: It depends who you're paying attention to…

The Real Deal: Although rumors persist that Rian Johnson's all-new Star Wars trilogy has been put on hold, reality seems to suggest something different; in news reports about Johnson's surprise new crime feature Knives Out, it was underscored that the movie will shoot this November, before he settles in to creating the trilogy. Johnson has even taken to Twitter to confirm that, yes, the trilogy is still in the works. This might not stop the rumor to the contrary being spread around, but as Taylor Swift once so poignantly pointed out, haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate.

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You Can Have a Drink in the Star Wars Theme Park, But Can You Fly the Falcon?

The Source: Both the rumor mill and Disney's official promotional arm

Probability of Accuracy: Given that we're combining official announcements and hearsay, let's go with 70/30.

The Real Deal: More information about the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge spaces coming to Disney parks is starting to emerge. The good news: Disney says that when the attractions open next year they'll feature Oga's Cantina locations—essentially bars that will serve all kinds of refreshing beverages and feature music from Star Tours' old pilot droid, RX-24, who is apparently a DJ now. (Look, it's weird. Let's just admit that and move on.) Meanwhile, there are apparently big problems with Galaxy Edge's Millennium Falcon ride, which may have been too ambitious for its own good. According to some, it’s going to require significant retro fixes in order to work for more than 10 percent of those on the ride at any given time. Still, if it all goes wrong, at least there'll be somewhere for everyone to go and have a drink while waiting for repairs. (There’s also a rumor that John Williams and Rogue One's Michael Giacchino will be writing original music for the attraction, which would be interesting…)

Meet the Fireballs Behind the Next Animated Series

The Source: Whoever is responsible for uploading Disney material to YouTube

Probability of Accuracy: It's honest-to-goodness Disney promo material, so it's as accurate as any promotional material.

The Real Deal: Wondering what to expect from the upcoming animated series Star Wars Resistance? Well, thanks to a new promo video we now know a little bit more about Team Fireball, the characters at the center of the new show.

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"We made the show for a younger audience; I think they’ll love the relationships between the characters, and all the light-heartedness," said executive producer Athena Yvette Portillo. "It's unique in tone, unique in look. It's a completely different package." The new series debuts on the Disney Channel October 7.