According to these guys, we’ll see a famous location mentioned numerous times, but one that hasn’t been realized on screen before:

“One small hint: Star Wars The Old Republic has added a planet that has long been mentioned but never seen on film.”

Which planet do you think that is? The ancient Sith home world of Korriban?

Or Makeb?

Meanwhile, a source at Pinewood Studios tells Yahoo that the film’s crew has already constructed a full scale Millennium Falcon to be used during the filming:

“A full-scale 1:1 Millennium Falcon has been built as well as the interiors of the ship for filming. The Falcon is done – inside and out. The sets were built off-site, ready to move when Lucasfilm/Bad Robot were ready to move into Pinewood.”

I can feel my Star Wars juices -midi-chlorians?- start flowing…

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First, we have a cool, retro-Soviet style propaganda art that will appear on the show. The art depicts three stormtroopers.

And here is a new villain from the show… The Inquisitor. A black-clad, intimidating figure who is “tasked by Darth Vader to hunt down the remaining Jedi Knights” and will play a prominent role in the upcoming animated series.

He was unveiled officially by Star Wars Rebels executive producer Dave Filoni at Lucasfilm’s Star Wars Rebels panel at NYCC.

The panel, hosted by Lucasfilm’s Pablo Hidalgo, focused on the Empire and how it is central to the story of Star Wars Rebels. Hidalgo revealed that the series takes place about 14 years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, a time in which the Emperor’s rule is secure and the Empire is seeking to expand its power to Outer Rim territories. That leads Imperial forces to Lothal, a poor planet that initially welcomes the Empire on the promise of security and prosperity. Soon the Imperials start exploiting its people and begin recruiting young citizens to join TIE fighter and Stormtrooper academies, or to work in the Sienar Fleet Systems factory – which builds TIE fighters.

A video was screened at the end of the panel, you can watch it here:

Star Wars Rebels is set to debut on Disney XD in 2014. Stay tuned for more.

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Penned years earlier than the final product we all come to love, the original script follows General Luke Skywalker and the young Annikin Starkiller joining forces to battle the Galactic Empire with a reptilian Han Solo and other well-known characters who appears quite different.

Scribe J.W. Rinzler and artist Mike Mayhew have penned the eight-issue graphic novel and the first issue hits stores on September 4th.

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Executive producer Dave Filoni showed the drawings by artist Ralph McQuarrie for the show.

Rebels span the two decade gap between Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.

Star Wars Rebels will premiere fall 2014 as a one-hour special on Disney Channel and after that, the show will continue on Disney XD.

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Imagine Shepard or Thane with his azure lightsaber or a Krogan pulling a Sith’s legs off.

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“I went to the Star Wars canon from the novels, where Luke Skywalker, now a Jedi Master, returns to planet Yavin IV with R2D2 to set up the new Jedi order at the Massassi temple. I’m fairly certain the Jedi order will begin to be remade in Episode 7, and will continue to grow throughout the new trilogy.” -Josh Lange

“An unknown Jedi padawan, surveying a battle-ravaged Coruscant, where massive fleets of Mon Calamari and Imperial Star Destroyers wage war above the planet’s smoking skyline. I have faith that Coruscant will play a big role in the new films, since it was the home base for the Empire before expanding to the Outer Rim in the original trilogy, and the Rebel Alliance cannot rule with confidence unless they control the city planet. Time will tell if any of these ideas are proven correct.” -Josh Lange

 

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Here, Luke Skywalker is an older Jedi general, while charismatic smuggler Han Solo is a lizard-like alien. The story’s main protagonist is named Annikin Starkiller and they use “laser-swords.”

“This is not an April Fools joke,” said Dark Horse Comics’ Randy Stradley, who will edit the book. “This is a real thing; it’s really happening.”

The series will be illustrated by former “Avengers” artist Mike Mayhew and will be “adapted” by J. W. Rinzler, who has written several Star Wars-themed books, some alongside Lucas, over the course of his career. It was during one of these encounters with Lucas that led to the creation of the book, according to a Dark Horse Comics press release.

“I once asked (Lucas) if we could adapt his rough draft,” Rinzler said in statement. “He was hesitant. Years later, with Dark Horse’s invaluable help, we showed him a few drawn and colored pages of what it might look like. He gave us the okay.”

The comics are named “The Star Wars” after the name of the original screenplay and they are set for September.

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Via: NBC NY

Here’s such a work. It’s ”Star Wars Tie Fighter Animation” and it’s a preview of a work-in-progress by Paul Michael Johnson, you will especially love it if you ever played Tie Fighter and if you miss looking out of the cockpit of one.

Check it out:

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MYO armband, made by Thalmic Labs, makes it possible for you to use the electrical activity in your muscles to wirelessly control your computer, phone, and other digital technologies.

The armband is one size and fits everybody and it uses unique gestures that are unlikely to occur normally thus precise and mistake-free. This innovative new input device works with your PC, Mac, phone or tablet over Bluetooth 4.0 and lets you to control presentations, video, content, games, browse the web, create music, edit videos, and more.

The device senses gestures and movements via the muscle activity (MYO can detect changes in hand gesture right down to each individual finger) and motion sensing (it can detect subtle movements all directions by tracking the positioning in space of the arm and hand).

The MYO features on-board, rechargeable Lithium-Ion batteries, and ARM processor. The MYO is outfitted with Thalmic’s proprietary muscle activity sensors. It also features a 6-axis inertial measurement unit. And it’s possible to preorder these now for $149, shipments are expected in late 2013.

Can this device make Kinect wake up in cold sweat at nights? We’ll see.

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KotOR I and II are accepted as one of the best SW games and CRPG’s ever made and Screenwriter and author Drew Karpyshyn, (Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Jade Empire, Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and both Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: The Old Republic) formerly of BioWare, has addressed those new Star Wars movie rumors about him that are growing online.

Alas, the KOTOR movie rumors appear to be incorrect. AICN updated their report  to say Karpyshyn told them that he;

“has heard nothing about a Knights of the Old Republic movie. Of course even if he was working on it, he couldn’t say so – but I’m going to say this looks like a rumor that we can put to rest for now. His old workmates at BioWare were hoping it was true, but there was more hope than reality to the rumor. Consider this one shut down for now.”

 

Damn… I wanted that rumor to be true.

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Via: IGN