{"id":523498,"date":"2026-06-29T02:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/523498\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T02:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:46:09","slug":"this-week-in-a-galaxy-far-far-away-amy-adams-hyping-starfighter-eclipse-troubles-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/523498\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Amy Adams Hyping ‘Starfighter’, ‘Eclipse’ Troubles, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Sunday, and welcome to a new edition of \u201cThis Week, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away<\/a>\u201c. Once again, I have a relatively thin column this weekend, as the\u00a0Star Wars news drought continues. Disney announced this week the home release of\u00a0The Devil Wears Prada 2 for July 29. I would expect a similar announcement on The Mandalorian and Grogu to come soon\u2026 perhaps targeting a Labor Day Weekend streaming debut?<\/p>\n

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Over at Star Wars News Net, things continue as usual. Josh delivered a new Character Spotlight on Rook Kast, which you can check out here<\/a>. And while Tyler continues on his summer hiatus, he did post a new video chatting with Paul about\u00a0The Mandalorian and Grogu, its box office, what it means for the future, and more. Check it out<\/a>! As usual, make sure to join our Discord server by clicking here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Something to watch out for: The Ninth Jedi, the spin-off series from Star Wars: Visions, will have a presence<\/a> at this week\u2019s Anime Expo, where the first episode will be screened. I would also expect a trailer and release date to come out of that panel, since we know the series is coming out this summer (maybe early August?).<\/p>\n

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With that out of the way\u2026<\/p>\n

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Three Things That May Have Flown Casual<\/p>\n

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Starfighter craze: The countdown for\u00a0Starfighter is on. Lucasfilm needs to prove that it can still release a Star Wars movie in theaters and be culturally relevant. And though I don\u2019t expect any footage to be made public before the end of the year, it seems that Disney is already showing it off in closed-door events, as evidenced by a special appearance<\/a> during CineEurope. This speaks well of the movie\u2019s chances at D23 in August. Meanwhile, Amy Adams also confirmed<\/a> what we all suspected, that her role in the movie will be rather small. However, as a guest on the Smartless podcast, she spoke highly of the movie and her on-set experience, adding that she was geeking out on the first day. \u201cI\u2019m on a Star Wars set, and I like, I grew up on this!\u201d she said. I did not expect that!
\nVideo game updates: The\u00a0Star Wars: Eclipse crew is reportedly<\/a> \u201cdying a slow death\u201d; in the latest move, a large part of Quantic Dreams\u2019 staff is going on strike over imposed layoffs. On a more positive note, the marketing for\u00a0Galactic Racer continues with a 10-minute preview<\/a> for the game. Finally, a crowdfunded documentary on YouTube explored<\/a> how adding Jedi doomed the old video game\u00a0Star Wars Galaxies.
\nPublishing updates: We have a preview for<\/a>\u00a0Eyes Like Stars, the first in a new series of (presumably unconnected) genre-based books that is coming out on July 21. We also have a new excerpt<\/a> for\u00a0Edge of the Abyss, the second chapter in the\u00a0Reign of the Empire trilogy that comes out in September.<\/p>\n

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There was a lot of chatter in the comments section last week<\/a>, regarding my five bullet points standing as a studio mandate, which I appreciated! Let me know what\u2019s going through your head about Star Wars, its present and future, down below!<\/p>\n

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Have a great week.<\/p>\n

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Miguel Fern\u00e1ndez is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings,\u00a0but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Sunday, and welcome to a new edition of \u201cThis Week, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away\u201c. Once…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270,2140,223027,223028],"class_list":["post-523498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-star-wars","tag-starfighter","tag-this-week-far-far-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}