As a writer, one of my favourite things to do is create my own plots for upcoming movies – basically, write fan-fic. It’s fun to work with characters and environments that you’re already in love with, and it poses a creative challenge to predict plot developments for a story which you don’t fully know inside-and-out. […]
Star Wars Episode VIII has officially started filming!!! Even though it was filming before The Force Awakens came out. Similar to the start of production on VII, StarWars.com has issued a press release and revealed the new cast – although there’s a lack of black-and-white photos of them all sat around a table. Unsurprisingly, all of […]
Who doesn’t love free stuff? The correct answer is: nobody, especially when said free stuff is Star Wars toys. That’s right – your least-favourite geek news site has teamed up with Fun.com to give away three awesome action figures from the Black Series: Luke Skywalker and Han Solo in their Stormtrooper kicks from A New Hope – and […]
When we all talked about upcoming Star Wars movies, there was a solace to be found in that we’d only need to wait five months between Rogue One and Episode VIII, cementing the franchise’s new position as a class A drug. That status has been slightly interrupted today, as news broke that the next chapter […]
When you’re a celebrity, you often get a bunch of crazy ol’ fans asking odd requests of you at conventions. If you’ve played an iconic character then the requests can be incredibly strange. If you’ve played an iconic Star Wars character then the requests can be bordering on harassment. Therefore, it should come as […]
Remember how more than two thousand actors were being auditioned for the role of Han Solo in his upcoming standalone film? Well, get ready to narrow that list down just a tad. We now have a list of just eight actors who are up for the part, and a number of them are putting to […]
Excuse the rather juvenile headline, but this news is quite exciting. On the whole, box office news is fairly boring; once in a while, however, a movie comes along which engages you completely in its box office domination or failure – e.g. Fantastic Four. Another such movie is The Force Awakens, which has broken record after […]
This contains at least two pretty big spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. If you haven’t seen it yet, then for the love of crikey go and do so. When Star Wars: The Force Awakens was first announced, most of us had a few major questions. Among the biggest were how some of the […]
Beware, young Padawan. Both minor and major spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens lie ahead. While Star Wars: The Force Awakens may not give us Yoda, we’re still treated to a short, wise alien in the form of Maz Kanata. Portrayed by Lupita Nyong’o, Kanata is a character who appears to know a great […]
If that title seems like a bit of an exaggeration, then you’ve probably been living under a rock. Hope you like it under there. Stay hydrated. As the most highly anticipated movie of the year, everyone expected Star Wars to do well. But it’s almost insane how well it’s doing, and how quickly it’s getting […]
Well. Where to start? It’s fair to say that The Force Awakens was (we can say that now) the most anticipated film of all time, which can be supported by the extraordinary advance ticket sales, audience buzz, YouTube views and the sheer brand power that is Star Wars. With all that riding on one movie, […]
A long time ago, on a small terrestrial planet called Earth, home to a race of nerdy and opinionated sentients known as humans, one among them had a vision that would define a generation of geeks, unleashing the phenomena known as Star Wars onto the planet. The year was 1977, and this “chosen one” was […]
The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: Darth Vader Annual #1. In my recent review of Star Wars Annual #1, I noted that a good annual can subvert our expectations while still delivering a self-contained story that provides excellent entertainment. As far as self-contained stories are concerned, the new Darth Vader Annual is a success. […]
The following review contains mild spoilers for Star Wars Annual #1. Most comic book annuals strive to deliver big stories, often crossing over several characters from other franchises. You might see Spider-Man and Dr. Strange on the pages of Astonishing X-Men, and it isn’t surprising to see the Green Lantern make an appearance in a […]
The release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens was highly anticipated, but many dedicated fans of the franchise were also somewhat shaken by the announcement that the Star Wars Expanded Universe would be rebranded as Star Wars Legends. It wasn’t the rebranding itself that caused a fuss, but rather the news that the former EU […]
If there’s one thing as exciting as the new release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it’s the notion of living in a Star Wars universe ourselves. More specifically, it’s exciting to play with the idea of wielding our own lightsabers. We could strike down bad guys (and occasionally good guys), we could cut through […]
Well, well. We’re finally here. I am mere hours away from sitting down to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which has prompted me to cast my mind back to October 30th, 2012, when the monumental news broke that Disney had purchased Lucasfilm for $4B and were putting Episode VII into production. Funnily enough, […]
We like to run inforgraphics here on UTF (basically the only thing people send us) – especially ones which are Star Wars-related, because eveything gets better when it’s about Star Wars. Adrian Flux, the UK-based vehicle insurance company, has developed an infograhic predicting how much it would cost the Rebellion and the Empire to insure […]
This is the sixth and final installment of our Star Wars Week review series. Check out our reviews of The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back! Growing up, I really loved Return of the Jedi. I just had a soft spot for it […]
That’s the question which Belated Media has posed to us once again, as he finally wraps up his three-year rewrite of the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. Three years ago he managed to rework The Phantom Menace into something which actually sounded kinda good (take a look – which also involves looking back at UTF’s early […]