Articles by Kael Voss

A Knight Edge Media report, relayed by The Playlist and The Direct, says Lucasfilm developed Rogue Squadron three times, including a Disney+ series with Rick Famuyiwa, and shelved all three. None of it is confirmed.

Hayden Christensen, Rosario Dawson, Temuera Morrison, Ian McDiarmid and Ewan McGregor are on the fall convention calendar, from Los Angeles Comic Con on October 30 to Comic Con Ireland on November 21. Here are the dates, the prices and the caveats.

At its New York Comic Con panel, Mad Cave Studios announced Smugglers & Scoundrels: The Black Sun Eclipse, set two years after Solo and due fall 2027, and a February Valentine's Day anthology that includes Han and Leia's first date.

Hasbro's NYCC panel revealed three Attack of the Clones Black Series figures (Agen Kolar, Saesee Tiin, Zam Wesell), a Mandalorian season 2 Vintage Collection three-pack and a VHS-style box for the Saga multipack. Pre-orders start October 15, 22 and 29.

Fantasy Flight's 260-card Star Wars: Unlimited set Homeworlds reached stores in early October, with Chewbacca and Tarkin Spotlight Decks, a new Fortify keyword and a Death Star Leader Unit. A smaller Icons set follows November 20.

Lucasfilm Publishing's October 9 NYCC panel unveiled eight Star Wars: Starfighter tie-ins, including Delilah S. Dawson's expanded novelization on June 22, 2027, plus a long list of A New Hope 50th-anniversary books and a D&D line.

Jordan Stephens, who played Corporal Tonc in Rogue One, says he declined to return in Andor after being asked to cut his dreadlocks for an army-training scene. The account is his alone so far, reported by The Direct and ComingSoon on October 8.

Marvel is publishing Star Wars: Ahsoka – Escape from Thrawn, a five-issue miniseries from a Dave Filoni story that shows how Ezra got off the Chimaera. Issue #1 arrives January 20, 2027, the day Ahsoka season 2 premieres.

Speaking at The Social Reckoning premiere, Mikey Madison said she is open to doing a franchise or blockbuster someday. She was reportedly approached to play Starfighter's villain, a part Mia Goth took.

Star Wars: The Experience – A Journey Through the Galaxy opens at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute on February 13, 2027, with Vader's costume, a full-scale carbonite Han Solo and rare action-figure prototypes. Member presale starts October 22, the public on-sale November 12.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer's review embargo lifted October 2 with an 88 on both Metacritic and OpenCritic, reportedly the franchise's best since Knights of the Old Republic. It launches October 6.

Analysts estimate Star Wars: Zero Company sold about a million copies and made roughly $50 million in under a month, and Newzoo has it sixth on August's PC revenue chart after under a week on sale. What is still unknown is whether Bit Reactor's furloughed staff are back.

Hasbro's Star Wars fan stream on October 2 revealed the first Black Series wave of 2027 and a new Vintage Collection set: Queen Amidala, Padawan Anakin, a Galactic Marine, X-wing pilot Luke, IG-88 and Tessek, plus a Lothal Rebels 3-pack and A New Hope droids. Pre-orders open October 7 and October 15, with figures due spring 2027.

Star Wars: Smugglers and Scoundrels Vol. 1 — The Race for Jabba's Bounty reached comic shops on September 15 from Mad Cave Studios' Papercutz imprint: a 112-page middle-grade graphic novel by Cavan Scott and Christian Colbert that sends Han Solo, Chewbacca, Boba Fett, Aurra Sing, Greedo and a six-foot green Lepi smuggler after a missing family heirloom.

LEGO's UCS Executor Super Star Destroyer (75457) goes on sale today, October 1: 6,130 pieces, 53.5 inches long, seven minifigures and an $799.99 price tag. It's a remake of the 2011 set that retired in 2014 — nearly double the pieces and double the original $399.99.

2026 Topps Chrome Star Wars dropped today, and buried in the checklist for The Mandalorian and Grogu is the first confirmation of four cast members Lucasfilm never put in a press release. Turns out the cardboard beat the trailers to the punch.

Deadline reported Friday that Lucasfilm has tapped Jon Watts — the Spider-Man: Homecoming trilogy director and Skeleton Crew co-creator — to direct the first film in Simon Kinberg's new Skywalker Saga trilogy. Multiple outlets are already calling it Episode X. Lucasfilm hasn't officially confirmed the hire, and the project still isn't greenlit, but the reporting is specific and widely corroborated.

Timothy Zahn's most famous villain crosses into a new medium this week: Star Wars: Thrawn (The Manga), Vol. 1 hits US shelves September 29 from Random House Worlds. Kael Voss on why a manga is exactly the right format for the galaxy's most patient tactician - and why it's landing right as Ahsoka gears up for round two.

New York Comic Con just dropped its NYCC 2026 guest list, and Star Wars fans got two real reasons to pay attention: Hayden Christensen and Ian McDiarmid — Anakin/Vader and the Emperor himself — are both confirmed for autographs and photo ops, and Lucasfilm Publishing has locked two full panels revealing new book and comic announcements across the show's four days.

This Christmas, S4C will broadcast Star Wars: Gobaith Newydd — the first official Welsh-language dub of any Star Wars film, produced by Lucasfilm and Disney with the Welsh Government's backing. Matthew Rhys voices Han Solo. Rhys Ifans is Obi-Wan Kenobi. It's a genuinely unprecedented event: the first Star Wars indigenous-language dub built as a national broadcast, not a community screening.

Two and a half weeks ago I wrote that Dave Filoni's own MandoVerse crossover movie looked like it was moving through pre-production alongside Rey's New Jedi Order. Reporting from Parade and ScreenRant earlier this year complicates that: Filoni's film has reportedly been sitting on the back burner since around January, specifically because Simon Kinberg's new post-Skywalker trilogy has been accelerated ahead of it.

Marvel Comics kicked off a seven-issue adaptation of The Book of Boba Fett on September 9, putting the galaxy's most infamous bounty hunter back on Tatooine's throne in a medium that never has to worry about pacing complaints. Here's what the comic changes, what it keeps, and why the timing matters.

Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic exists, it has a trailer, and the man directing it is Casey Hudson — the same director who made Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect legendary. Somehow, this blog has never written about it. That changes today, along with Hudson's own public pushback on rumors the game won't land until 2030.

George Lucas got his opening night. On September 19, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art threw a star-studded gala in Los Angeles — Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Samuel L. Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Oprah, and dozens more — capped by a drone show that lit up the sky with Star Wars imagery. The museum opens to the public September 22.

Rebecca Roanhorse's Edge of the Abyss hit shelves September 15 — the second book in the Reign of the Empire trilogy, set one year before Andor Season 1, and built almost entirely around Mon Mothma and Bail Organa's slow-motion political radicalization. Early reviews agree on one thing: it captures Andor's patient, suspense-over-spectacle DNA better than almost any other Star Wars tie-in has managed.

Thirteen years after Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm quietly buried it, Star Wars Detours is finally getting seen. Six full episodes of George Lucas's shelved animated comedy series screen to the public starting September 22 at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art — not on Disney+, not as a streaming drop, but in a museum theater.

Four days ago I flagged the one unanswered question about A New Hope's 50th-anniversary IMAX re-release: which cut. Lucasfilm just answered it. February 19, 2027 brings back the actual 1977 theatrical version — Greedo, Han, and the blaster fired in the order George Lucas originally shot it, not the Special Edition.

Adria Arjona just revealed how close she came to playing Qi'ra in Solo: A Star Wars Story — she screen-tested opposite Alden Ehrenreich for the film's original directors before the role went to Emilia Clarke. Her verdict, eight years and one Andor performance later: "I'm so thankful I didn't get it."

Lucasfilm Games marked National Video Games Day with a sizzle reel confirming Star Wars Eclipse and the KOTOR remake are still, technically, alive. The catch: both games are represented by the exact same footage shown at their 2021 reveals — five years later, still not one new frame.

The Mandalorian and Grogu closed its theatrical run as the lowest-grossing live-action Star Wars movie ever made. Eight days after landing on Disney+, it's the #1 movie on the platform worldwide, sitting ahead of Avengers: Infinity War on FlixPatrol's charts in 70 countries. Box office isn't the whole story anymore, and this is the cleanest proof of that this franchise has produced in years.