With a swing of a wrist gauntlet, and the head-butt of a sinister helmet, The Acolyte’s
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In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Leslye Headland discussed her process conceiving this week’s shockingly viol
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It’s been nearly seven years since The Last Jedi sparked the flames of a culture war Star Wars still finds itself embroiled in, and nearly five since The Rise of S
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Since early 2020, many of Marvel’s primary Star Wars comics—the main Star Wars series, Darth Vader, and the already concluded Doctor Aphra and Bounty Hunters—shifted to a new period in the timeline of the original movies: the immediate days and weeks after the events of The Empire Strikes Back.
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For the most part, The Acolyte has set itself apart from the rest of Star Wars—both in terms of its placement in the timeline, a hundred years before the preque
Sure, you’ll probably never get your hands on that infamous extending lightsaber last seen at the
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Rosario Dawson and Hayden Christensen met long before they crossed paths in Star Wars; though their careers have been mostly divergent (her breakout was 1995's