I can't believe Lucasfilm reportedly has 60 scripts for a Star Wars television show that have largely gone unused. Although it's been a matter of record for several years, new details about George Lucas' Star Wars: Underworld have recently been revealed. To that end, many have been wondering if the fascinating series will ever become a reality.

One of the last projects George Lucas worked on before selling Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012, Star Wars: Underworld was intended to be a major multi-season show the likes of which had never been seen before on network television. However, there are some key reasons why the show never got made. However, I firmly believe that the time has come for Lucasfilm to finally make Star Wars: Underworld a reality, especially seeing how 60 out of a hundred intended scripts were apparently written for the series before its cancellation.

According to reports, Star Wars: Underworld was George Lucas's big idea and mission in the late 2000s, shortly afte

Disney+ is making 'Andor' episodes more widely available online ahead of the release of season 2.

Ahead of Andor's return, showrunner Tony Gilroy talks political ideology and playing in the spaces of Star Wars' familiar iconography.

As you’ve likely heard people saying for years now, Andor is truly excellent TV – whether you’re a Star Wars super-fan, or someone who only dabbles in the galaxy far, far away. And now, with just two months to go until the second (and final) season of Tony Gilroy’s revolutionary drama gets underway, we finally have a teaser trailer, promising an explosive return from a Star Wars story like no other. Get ready for the return of Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor – alongside a rich tapestry of rebels from across the galactic firmament – and give the Season 2 trailer a here:

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Scottish actor Rory McCann, best known for playing the burly brute The Hound on HBO’s Game of Thrones, will replace late actor Ray Stevenson for a second season of Star Wars show Ahsoka, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Stevenson played the hulking former Jedi known as Baylan Skoll in the Disney+ series. He died after a brief illness in May 2023, three months before the series premiered. The actor was a fan favorite, thanks to his resonate voice, humor and roles in Punisher: War Zone, the Thor movies and TV’s Rome.

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It is unclear when the new season is to begin shooting or who will be directing. Dave Filoni was the showrunner of season one, and is returning in the same capacity.

The archive on the Disney+ streaming platform spans more that 13,000 shows on in 39 languages and it didn't come cheap. In late 2017, Disney's chief executive Bob Iger announced a $71 billion deal to buy 21st Century Fox giving it control of streaming service Hulu and adult-focused content such as The Simpsons and Family Guy. This diversified Disney's content making it appeal to a wider audience of potential streaming subscribers.

The more minutes of content Disney can offer, the more ads it can fit in and the more content there is to tempt subscribers. Andor isn't just a cost-effective way to do this with Star Wars, it's the cheapest way.

As the table above shows, when the cost of the seven Disney Star Wars shows and movies made in the U.K. is divided by the run time of the production, Andor comes out the cheapest. Its first season lasted for a whopping 547 minutes across 12 episodes and although the total run time of its second season hasn't yet come to light, it is set to s

Disney has revealed that the cost of making Star Wars streaming show Andor has surged to $645 million (£504.8 million) after it spent a record $290.9 million (£232.1 million) last year on filming its second season which will debut in April 2025.

It is the highest-ever annual spending on a Star Wars production disclosed in Disney's public filings. The staggering sum eclipses the $280.7 million (£211.8 million) spent on Star Wars: The Last Jedi over the almost 11 month period to March 16, 2019. Likewise, it is higher than the $243.8 million (£193.6 million) cost of The Force Awakens, Disney's debut entry in the sci-fi saga, during the year-ending November 15, 2016.

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Remarkably, the cost of Andor's second season is set to soar even higher as the $290.9 million was spent during the year to November 22, 2023 which doesn't even cover all of the shoot. Filming began in November 2022 but was suspended in summer 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. It resumed in January this year a

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The second season of the “Star Wars” series “Ahsoka” is moving its film production from Los Angeles to the United Kingdom, and at present, its studio Lucasfilm does not have any film or series projects currently slated to film in LA, IndieWire has confirmed.

A studio insider disputed the idea that all film and TV production for Lucasfilm would relocate to the UK, adding that no hard and fast decision has been made.

Lucasfilm has a long UK history dating back to George Lucas’ original “Star Wars” trilogy as well as films like “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”

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many streaming series on Disney+ were shot in Los Angeles County at Manhattan Beach Studios including “The Mandalorian,” “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” and the just-released “Skeleton Crew.” Lucasfilm utilized Industrial Light & Magic’s “volume stage” technology — stages with wraparound digital LED screens encompassing the set — with technicians bas

This morning Lucasfilm finally gave us our first, brief look at the long-awaited second season of Andor. As well as hinting at the conflicts to come, both internally and against the Empire alike, in doing so it also quietly teased another teeny bit of the old Star Wars Expanded Universe making its way back onto screens.

That teeny bit is actually not-so teeny, physically speaking. It’s the ship that Cassian is seen stealing during the snippet: a TIE Fighter with a familiar design that will immediately be recognizable by any old school fans of classic PC flight sims in the form of TIE Fighter‘s TIE Avenger. And if the ship is anything like it used to be in the EU, then Cassian is pilfering quite the mean little starfighter.

What Is the TIE Avenger?

First introduced in the 1994 classic TIE Fighter, the Avenger was one of several successful production descendants of the TIE Advanced prototype flown by Darth Vader in A New Hope. That includes the TIE Defender, canonized in curr

Originally spotted by Aldo on Twitter, on the Disney+ mobile app, the tile advertising Andor has been updated to reflect the upcoming season's release date, with the bottom of the poster for the show reading "Season 2 coming April 22." In addition to marking two years and five months after the season 1 finale, which aired in November 23, 2022, this release date will come hot on the heels of the fan convention Star Wars Celebration. The next convention takes place between April 18 and April 20, 2025, leaving just a two-day hiatus between the end of the event and the premiere of the new season.

In recent years, more extraneous parts of Star Wars lore have been welcomed back into the saga’s main continuity. Shows like The Mandalorian and Ahsoka have been a treasure-trove of references to lesser-explored areas of the galaxy’s mythos, whether it’s the live-action debuts of Krrsantan and Grand Admiral Thrawn, a glimpse of the Mythosaur, or the arrival of the Dark Troopers. But one part of Star Wars history that isn’t considered canon anymore – and so far hasn't been welcomed back in – is the pair of Ewok movies, Caravan Of Courage and The Battle For Endor. The two made-for-TV films were released in the mid-‘80s, and now have a home on Disney+, even if they’re not part of the official story these days. But if you have a soft spot for Wicket's adventures, buckle up: one species from The Battle For Endor is about to make a comeback.

Speaking to Empire in a director’s roundtable interview for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, filmmaker David Lowery revealed that the Teek – the super-spe

We had mixed feelings about the news in August that Disney+ had cancelled its Star Wars spinoff series The Acolyte after just one season. At the time, it seemed steadily declining ratings were to blame, particularly given the high production costs. More budgetary details have trickled out since then, indicating that the streaming series spent far more than previously reported, topping $230.1 million—roughly $28.7 million per episode—before post-production had even been completed. That's significantly more than the original $180 million reported budget, or about $22.5 million per episode.

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Writing at Forbes, Caroline Reid noted that The Acolyte was hampered from the start by a challenging post-pandemic financial environment at Disney. It was greenlit in 2021 along with many other quite costly series to boost subscriber numbers for Disney+, contributing to $11.4 billion losses in that division. Then Bob Iger returned as CEO and prioritized cutting costs. The Acolyte's heavy

The two biggest news items in there, I’d say:

Ahsoka saw a decline of 829 million minutes for its debut, around Mando season 3 levels, to 570 million for the rest of its run. But still, season 2 is happening, and it will go into production next year, leaving a sprawling gap between seasons of the show. Almost three years, most likely.

The report says that the Mandalorian and Grogu movie is replacing season 4 of The Mandalorian, rather than joining it, where THR says “it also looks like Disney spent many years and untold capital struggling develop a new Star Wars movie and its best idea was an extra-long episode of a TV show.”

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The end result on the TV side is…there is literally one show that is still considered to be actively ongoing, Ahsoka, and that second season will arrive almost three years after the first. Andor has season 2 coming but it’s over after that. Skeleton Crew has to perform well to be renewed and we have no idea what it’s budget is.

Despite Disney speaking to various media outlets about The Acolyte being cancelled thanks to lack of viewership, its cast has been vocal about the harassment from toxic fans they believe are being rewarded by the killing of the show. And while it may indeed be a cost versus viewership decision, I am not entirely convinced the show’s death is set in stone.

The new evidence is from The Stranger himself, Manny Jacinto, who appears to not be giving up hope courtesy of a few quotes from DragonCon this past week.

In one clip he’s asked about one thing he wants to achieve before he dies, and he says, to much applause, season 2 of The Acolyte.

This joins an earlier quote that does not have an attached video where Jacinto reportedly told a fan they were still “fighting” for the show, indicating there still may be some talks behind the scenes about bringing it back in some form or another. The public video certainly lends credence to the idea that yes, this quote is real. The Acolyt

What's confusing about this entire situation is that Disney and Lucasfilm apparently had plans for The Acolyte's future. Just last month at San Diego Comic Con, Lucasfilm Publishing announced spinoff books and comics related to The Acolyte, mainly focusing on the characters that died in the series. But the four main characters that are still alive -- twins Osha and Mae, Qimir and Vernestra -- are stuck on the shelf. So what does this mean exactly? Did Disney believe the deceased Yord and Jecki were far more worthy of investment? On the surface, that would be an easy guess. But the real problem lies with Disney and Lucasfilm succumbing to the pressure that the poisonous side of the Star Wars fandom laid on them.

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Story-wise, it wasn't going to be for everyone, but it was definitely for a lot of people. The amount of positive reviews by critics and Manny Jacinto acquiring new fans proved as such. But as more shows led by women, LGBTQ+ creatives and POC get canceled, it sends

The story of The Acolyte will not continue, with Lucasfilm opting not to proceed with a second season of the Star Wars offshoot starring Amandla Stenberg, sources tell Deadline.

Word of the decision comes more than a month after the eight-episode first season of the series from creator, director, executive producer and showrunner Lesley Headland wrapped its run on Disney+.

It looks like The Book of Boba Fett may have been the last time we see Boba Fett in the Star Wars franchise, as star Temuera Morrison reveals that the spin-off show’s bad reception is the reason why he won't be in the upcoming movie The Mandalorian & Grogu.

"This show's reception does seem to have impacted the future of the character in the franchise," said Boba Fett actor Temuera Morrison at Fan Expo Chicago after confirming his character won't appear in the Mandalorian movie, as reported by Screen Rant. Morrison later added that he also hasn't received an update on The Book of Boba Fett regarding a possible season 2, suggesting season 1 could well have been the last time we saw his character.