{"id":75039,"date":"2025-08-18T08:29:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/75039\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T08:29:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:29:05","slug":"star-wars-movies-updates-andor-emmys-campaign-gina-caranos-settlement-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/75039\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Star Wars’ Movies Updates, ‘Andor’ Emmys Campaign, Gina Carano’s Settlement, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Sunday, and welcome to a new edition of \u201cThis Week, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away<\/a>\u201c. I was about to start writing my weekly piece last week when posts started spreading on social media regarding Ewan McGregor having said at a convention he would be returning as Obi-Wan in Ahsoka Season 2. The stream of updates and roll-backs that happened over the following couple of hours left me so exhausted I decided to push it the piece until Monday \u2014 and then, as it happens, I had no time on Monday to finish it.<\/p>\n

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Sadly, we also have some breaking news to share from a few hours ago. Terence Stamp, the actor who played Chancellor Valorum in The Phantom Menace, has passed away<\/a> at 87. May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re in the heights of August, where there\u2019s typically not a lot going on. And yet, it feels like the past 1-2 weeks have been the most eventful for Star Wars news in quite a while. We\u2019ll be breaking that down today. But before we get to that, here are a couple of things you should check out.<\/p>\n

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First, Josh\u2019s new Character Spotlight on Bode Akuna<\/a> \u2014 someone I wasn\u2019t super familiar with, having not played Jedi: Survivor\u00a0yet. We didn\u2019t have a new SWNN Live! show this week due to busy schedules, but Tyler did hop on last week to talk for 30 minutes about the latest in\u00a0Star Wars news. Check it out here<\/a>. And last but not least, you really must read this guest editorial<\/a> on the parallels between Luke Skywalker and Boba Fett. I kid you not \u2013 it\u2019s one of my favorite things we\u2019ve posted in months.<\/p>\n

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Before we begin, a gentle reminder that you should join our Discord server<\/a> if you want to have all the fun, chat about Star Wars, and so much more!<\/p>\n

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

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The Andor Emmy campaign heats up its engines: The script for episode 9 of Season 2, \u201cWelcome to the Rebellion\u201d (by Dan Gilroy) is now available online \u2014 as is Tony Gilroy\u2019s full pitch for the second season. Check them out here<\/a>. Director Janus Metz also discussed<\/a> directing episode 9 in a new interview.Build your own adventure: The beloved\u00a0LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy is releasing a new season next month, and this week, we got our first look at the new four episodes, which features a ton of known\u00a0Star Wars characters, some of whom didn\u2019t appear in the first season. Check out the trailer and poster here<\/a>.Publishing updates: We\u2019ve got new reviews out for the\u00a0Sanctuary audiobook (by Sunny<\/a>), Legacy of Vader #7 (by Sydney<\/a>), the YA novel The Acolyte: The Crystal Crown (by Colin<\/a>), Hyperspace Stories: Tides of Terror #1 (by Jay<\/a>), and Jedi Knights #6 (by Nate<\/a>). Also, old \u2014 and possibly new \u2014 Star Wars comics may soon be coming<\/a> to Webtoon Entertainment.<\/p>\n

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Quote of the Week(s)<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe look forward to identifying opportunities to work together with Ms. Carano in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That was<\/a> Disney\u2019s best attempt at pretending they would hire Gina Carano again, after the wrestler-turned-actress\u2019 wrongful termination suit was settled out of court. Yeah, don\u2019t hold your breath for Cara Dune\u2019s return. If they actually wanted her back, they would have said something\u00a0a lot more definitive.<\/p>\n

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Runner-up<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo they over-cranked the camera to make it slightly slower because me and Ray were so fast doing this fight. He was worried that people wouldn\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ewan McGregor confirmed<\/a> in an interview this week that a long-rumored story about the Obi-Wan vs. Maul fight in\u00a0The Phantom Menace had to be slowed down in post-production.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of Ewan\u2026<\/p>\n

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As I alluded to at the beginning, there was this story<\/a> last week about McGregor being misquoted, saying he would be in\u00a0Ahsoka Season 2. This is not what he said, according to multiple outlets present at the Fan Expo Boston panel, though whether he will be in the show or not remains to be seen. His lifelong friend Hayden Christensen is returning as Anakin Skywalker, and so is his wife, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, as Hera Syndulla.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been a minute since we\u2019ve done a proper check-in with the many\u00a0Star Wars films in development, and given the stories from this past week, it feels like a good time to do it. If Kathleen Kennedy\u2019s words a few months ago still hold true, Shawn Levy\u2019s\u00a0Star Wars: Starfighter will go into principal photography next month. Casting is heating up at the moment, with Matt Smith recently joining<\/a> the picture as an antagonist with a military background, according to reporter Jeff Sneider<\/a>. He joins Mia Goth in the movie\u2019s evil ranks.<\/p>\n

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But Sneider also said on the Hot Mic podcast<\/a> what we can also tell by reading between the lines \u2014 Smith wasn\u2019t Lucasfilm\u2019s first choice for the role, and neither was Goth, who got the part after Oscar-winning Mikey Madison passed. Sneider said, and I believe him, that many actors have passed on this movie, though it\u2019s unclear exactly why. The toxicity of the\u00a0Star Wars fanbase is something to take into account, as Sneider and co-host John Rocha argued, but I also have the feeling that the script is not as solid as Lucasfilm would like to believe. I\u2019ve had my doubts since the beginning about writer\u00a0Jonathan Tropper, and this bit of information, if true, validated my concerns \u2014 after all, if the script was genuinely good, many actors would probably ignore the hurdles that joining the\u00a0Star Wars franchise carries.<\/p>\n

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Despite that, the project will go in front of the cameras soon. There\u2019s still a key role supposed to be cast, that of a young kid whom Ryan Gosling\u2019s character is apparently protecting. Whether anyone has the part at the moment remains unclear, but it looks like it will most likely be an unknown. Sneider hinted that Adolescence star Owen Cooper and\u00a028 Years Later\u2018s Alfie Williams were up for the part, but Lucasfilm passed on them.<\/p>\n

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Starfighter is the movie that the Lucasfilm leadership decided at the beginning of the year to focus on. I would imagine that it will be filming in the UK since next month, and the fact that\u00a0The Batman Part II isn\u2019t going until the spring, hints that Shawn Levy could be using the stages until February or March. If you remember, however, there was another movie that was in pretty good shape late last year \u2014 What ever happened to James Mangold\u2019s Dawn of the Jedi?<\/p>\n

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The movie was shaping up to receive a major boost in 2025, given the addition of Beau Willimon as co-writer and Mangold\u2019s freedom from his\u00a0A Complete Unknown duties. And yet, the project seems to have been kept on the sidelines. So much so that Mangold has now been shopping a new package with Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet around town, one that David Ellison\u2019s new regime at Paramount just bought this week. Will this be Mangold\u2019s next movie? If so, what does it mean for\u00a0Star Wars? As I\u2019ve argued before about other projects, I wonder if this is a case where Mangold got cold feet because of Kathleen Kennedy\u2019s imminent departure.<\/p>\n

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In parallel to all of that, Simon Kinberg is apparently still working on his\u00a0Star Wars draft \u2014 one he was supposed to turn in to Lucasfilm back in June. Did he ever? We don\u2019t know, but the writer-director-producer said this week that \u201cI was super inspired and just sort of awestruck by what Tony Gilroy did with Andor. I thought that was about as good of science fiction storytelling as you can do in any franchise.\u201d I don\u2019t expect we\u2019ll learn many more details about this new trilogy before the New Year, at the earliest.<\/p>\n

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But this past week, the\u00a0Star Wars movie news didn\u2019t just focus on future projects \u2014 there was a lot of talk about past movies as well. John Boyega, for instance, kinda dropped a bomb on us<\/a> (like he tends to do), when he said he expected a Rey vs. Finn to happen at some point during the sequel trilogy, when they started hearing the ideas for\u00a0The Force Awakens:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think I assumed he was Force-sensitive from The Force Awakens script or at least by the time I got to the end of The Force Awakens script. I thought they were planning dual Jedis. I actually thought that they would Obi-Wan and Darth Vader us a bit. That we would turn against each other or something along those lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Finn\u2019s Force sensibility, of course, was a big player in\u00a0The Rise of Skywalker \u2014 or was it? Famously, it was one of the movie\u2019s unresolved threads, the information that he\u00a0really wanted to tell Rey but never got the chance. Boyega later clarified in the movie\u2019s post-release press rounds that it was Finn\u2019s Force sensibility that he wanted to tell his friend. That being said, I didn\u2019t really get the impression that they were setting the stage for two Jedi. It was clear to me by the end of\u00a0The Force Awakens that Rey was the protagonist of the trilogy and that the rest of the characters were there as supporting players to her story.<\/p>\n

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On a different note, Ron Howard also had some things to say<\/a> about his time working on\u00a0Solo: A Star Wars Story \u2014 or, more specifically, his time right before joining the movie. He explained how the project fell on his lap, and had nice things to say about collaborating with Phil Lord and Chris Miller:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey basically said, \u2018We\u2019ve reached a creative impasse with Lord and Miller. Would you ever consider coming in?\u2019 I looked at some edited footage, and I saw what was bothering them. There was a studio that liked the script the way it was and wanted a \u2018Star Wars\u2019 movie, but there was a disconnect early on tonally, and they weren\u2019t convinced that what Phil and Chris were doing was working effectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t judge that because I didn\u2019t see enough of it to know. But they were sure. Once I said, \u2018Okay, I think I can do this script, and I think I understand what you want of this script,\u2019 they said, \u2018We\u2019d want to reshoot a lot.\u2019 I looked at the whole movie and then pointed out some things that I thought were great.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd Phil and Chris were incredibly gracious throughout that process. They were just seeing two different movies. So I came in, I had a blast, but there\u2019s nothing personal about that film whatsoever. It\u2019s still just a shame. I can\u2019t wait for Phil and Chris\u2019s next movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, Lord and Miller\u2019s next movie stars\u2026 Ryan Gosling! So that\u2019s going to be an interesting press tour next year, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a Walt Disney Studios Showcase panel at Destination D23<\/a> in a couple of weeks, but I don\u2019t expect any Star Wars news to be announced there. We\u2019ll still keep an eye out, though.<\/p>\n

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What did you think of the latest edition of \u201cThis Week, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away\u201d? Let me know your thoughts and suggestions down below in the comment section. You can also send them, or reach out with any information tips, directly via our Contact page.<\/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. I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2588,96,2839,2591,38499,38500,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-75039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-andor","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-star-wars","12":"tag-starfighter","13":"tag-this-week-far-far-away","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75039","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=75039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}