A staggering new report reveals just how valuable Star Wars Merchandise is for Disney. 14 years ago, Disney bought Star Wars from George Lucas for $4.05 billion. Since then, the House of Mouse has released a constant stream of new content, ranging from movies to TV shows. The Disney era was incredibly controversial, and as a result There is intense debate as to whether it was a benefit — and whether Disney could have handled things better. The Hollywood Reporter has published a new assessment of the franchise under Disney. Although most of the account will be very familiar to…
Author: Thomas Bacon
Palpatine’s “daughter” proves the New Republic made a massive mistake returning to Coruscant after the Star Wars Original trilogy. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Shocked viewers with the revelation that Rey was Palpatine’s granddaughter, even though technically the emperor had no family in the normal way. Instead, Rey was the daughter of Dathan, one of Palpatine’s many failed clones. Palpatine only became interested in her when he learned that she had access to the Force. Precious little is revealed about Palpatine’s family in canon. The old one Star Wars Expanded Universe, however, revealed much more – and even gave…
Star Wars is thriving more than ever, with much more content planned for the near future. Following 2023’s jam-packed release schedule, Star Wars Has another busy year planned for 2024. Star Wars Movies are high on the priority list for the first time since the Star Wars Sequel trilogy, and the global success of The Mandalorian Has opened the door for many new ones Star Wars Disney + TV shows to come to light – both animated and live-action. until now, Star Wars Has released three animated television shows and one live-action series. Star Wars: The Bad Batch The final…
Summary Middle-earth in Rings of Power differs from Jackson’s films and spans four eras with complex mythology. Second Age introduces Númenor, pivotal in shaping Third Age kingdoms like Gondor and Arnor. New locations reveal proto-hobbits in Rhovanion and elven kingdoms like Lyndon and Eregion. The Middle-earth of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is very different from what is seen in Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings films. JRR Tolkien was one of the most expansive and creative writers of all time, and the world he created is remarkably vast, with an incredibly complex mythology. The timeline…
Warning! Includes potential spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2. Summary The fall of Númenor is a key event in Middle-earth history. Pharazôn’s actions lead to Númenor’s fall at Sauron’s hands. Númenorean legacy survives, impacting future kingdoms like Gondor. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will inevitably lead to the fall of Númenor. Amazon’s latest fantasy TV series is set thousands of years before JRR Tolkien The Lord of the Ringsduring which he called the “second age”of Middle-earth. The Middle-earth of.” The rings of power is very different, and one of…
Warning! Includes potential spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2. Summary The fall of Númenor is a key event in Middle-earth history. Pharazôn’s actions lead to Númenor’s fall at Sauron’s hands. Númenorean legacy survives, impacting future kingdoms like Gondor. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will inevitably lead to the fall of Númenor. Amazon’s latest fantasy TV series is set thousands of years before JRR Tolkien The Lord of the Ringsduring which he called the “second age”of Middle-earth. The Middle-earth of.” The rings of power is very different, and one of…
Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Who This era secretly spawned two classic Time Lord villains, giving them an even older history with the Doctor. The Whittaker era of Doctor Who had a strangely ambiguous relationship with the Time Lords; The Timeless Child recon fundamentally reroutes the Doctor’s relationship with Gallifrey, revealing she is not a Time Lord at all. Rather, the Doctor was a being that originated from another universe, and the Gallifreians learned the secret of regeneration by reverse engineering it from the Doctor. The Doctor learned the truth of her identity and history when she was plunged into the Matrix,…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens It was a $2.07 million success story, but it set the franchise up for a massive failure. When Disney bought Star Wars Back in 2012, the House of Mouse had a simple design; To get the franchise back on the big screen again, with alternating anthology and sequel trilogy movies. It was an ambitious plan, not least because Lucasfilm had no development pipeline and George Lucas’ sequel trilogy scripts risked being as controversial as the prequels themselves. Star Wars Returned to theaters in 2015 with Star Wars: The Force AwakensAnd it is impossible to overplay…
Star Wars has just doubled down on a massive Clone Wars plot hole that dates all the way back to Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones . until 2002, Star Wars Viewers generally assumed that the clones were the bad guys in the Clone Wars. In fact, they were led by Jedi generals, and fought on behalf of the Republic – at least until Order 66, when Palpatine turned them against the Jedi. But there was always one massive problem with the clone army. The Star Wars Galaxy is a vast one, with reportedly 1 billion inhabited…