{"id":709654,"date":"2026-07-24T23:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709654\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T23:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T23:24:13","slug":"star-wars-50th-original-trilogy-unabridged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709654\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars 50th Original Trilogy Unabridged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Star Wars, read up on the next adventure for the Skywalker twins, and enjoy more highlights from today\u2019s panel.<\/p>\n<p>First he served the Republic as Ambassador Binks. Now, Ahmed Best takes on a new role as the official program ambassador for Star Wars Reads this year.<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/jar-jar-binks\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"a-rich-article\" aria-label=\"Jar Jar Binks\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Jar Jar Binks<\/a> actor and Star Wars comics scribe Ahmed Best was joined by fellow writers Anthony Breznican, Ashley Poston, and Kiersten White, as well as Lucasfilm Publishing\u2019s Creative Director Michael Siglain, for a conversation moderated by author and StarWars.com editor-in-chief Kristin Baver.<\/p>\n<p>Read on for news about Best\u2019s new role, more reveals, and the first look inside some exciting upcoming releases straight from the official Lucasfilm Publishing Panel at San Diego Comic-Con.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Skywalker is getting his first student\u2014his twin sister, Leia.<\/p>\n<p>Author Beth Revis is returning to the Star Wars galaxy with Star Wars: Twin Crossroads, a new adult novel from Random House Worlds following the adventures of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/luke-skywalker\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Luke Skywalker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/leia-organa\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"a-rich-article\" aria-label=\"Leia Organa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Leia Organa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Revis recently sat down to talk more about this new chapter in the Skywalker story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/star-wars-twin-crossroads\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">only on StarWars.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Star Wars, read up on the next adventure for the Skywalker twins, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}