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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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

In the SW canon, Luke marries Mara-Jade (ex-Hand of the Emperor and Jedi Master) and has a son named Ben Skywalker and Solos have three children Anakin, Jacen and Jaina.

All of them are strong in the force and they make the backbone of the New Jedi Order formed and trained by the Grand Master Luke Skywalker, along with heroes from different species.

It’s unclear at this point whether we’ll get movie versions of established expanded universe characters or will Lucasfilm, director J.J. Abrams, and screenwriter Michael Arndt invent all new descendants for viewers to follow. I doubt that they will scrap tens of novels, comics and stories so my money is on Ben, Anakin, Jacen and Jaina.

These kids have some really awesome story lines and if this report is true, we may see some of the awesome things they experience over the years, like Yuuzhan Vong and Darth Caedus.

Friedman says that RsD2 and C-3PO will be unchanged. And the three main actors are definitely coming back.

So now, the question is, which young actors will play their kids?

Look, I’m completely down with watching Ben Skywalker kick ass but please no child actors, no gungans and no Twilight love triangles.

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“I’m trying to start fresh. There are certain pleasures that we think the saga can bring to people that they’ve been missing, and we’re hoping to bring them that, and at the same time, have them feel that it’s all new.”

To IGN:

They’re going to be fun. J.J. (Abrams)’s a great director for the first sequel. Perfect. We’re very happy to have him. The writers I’ve been working with – Michael Arndt, who’s going to write the sequel, and Simon Kinberg, who has, like me, been sort of consulting — they’re great. I’ve never really collaborated a lot, and I’ve never been a room with a bunch of writers thinking, “Well, what should this thing be?” It’s fun. It’s really fun. And J.J.’s a writer. Yeah, lovely guy. I’d met him but didn’t know him. But now I’m totally enamored by him. He’s really funny and so enthusiastic.

And scribe Simon Kinberg is telling IGN:

“As a fan, I wouldn’t want to know too much. I know that’s impossible because it’s not the ’70s or ’80s anymore, but part of what was so exciting about A New Hope for me was I was entering into a universe I didn’t know. Even in Empire, I was surprised by a twist I never would have seen coming. But it’s different nowadays. I understand the excitement, and I’m happy that people are interested, obviously. But I’d rather people have something left to discover when they go in.”

Well, that was it… Now back to waiting…

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Featured image credit: EW

It was previously reported that Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg were exploring possible storylines to develop some of the series’ supporting characters in spin-off movies. They may be working on these two or a possible Yoda movie, or even ones that we do not know of yet.

The report adds that the Solo film would take place in the time between the two trilogies, before Solo met Luke Skywalker. The Fett film would be set in between two of the three original films.

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