Star Wars Rebels Becoming More Serialized in Final Season
Star Wars Rebels will leave behind its traditional, more standalone episode style, and become more akin to a heavily serialized show as it approaches the end of its final season.
Speaking to IGN (watch that chat above), executive producer Dave Filoni explained how the season will make that transition:
"Season 4 is unlike any other we've ever done in that, at a certain point, a couple of episodes in, it's more one continuous story arc all the way to the end than it's ever been, in anything we've done - even Clone Wars - where each story really fits together.
"Yes they're unique and independent, but it almost feels like day-to-day. Things start to move fast and get really exciting and interesting and desperate and awesome - and we've never done that before, and it's really exhilarating."
Disneyland’s Star Tours Adding Last Jedi’s Crait
It was revealed at Star Wars Celebration that the popular Star Tour attractions at Disneyland and Walt Disney Tour is getting a big new location added - Crait from Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
When The Force Awakens opened, Star Tours -- which randomly takes guests to many different worlds from the Star Wars films -- added Jakku as a location and once again, a new Star Wars Episode is bringing with it a ride upgrade.
Crait in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Will Address Rey’s Parentage
Star Wars: The Last Jedi will address one of the biggest mysteries from The Force Awakens in Rey's parentage.
In an interview with Good Morning America, director Rian Johnson confirmed Rey's parents will come up in The Last Jedi in some capacity, saying her parentage is "something that is absolutely going to be addressed in the movie."
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Fast 8: Diesel Reportedly Removed an End Credits Scene
Vin Diesel reportedly removed an end credits scene in The Fate of the Furious featuring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham.
As reported by TheWrap, the scene was supposed to be a tag at the end of the film that would set up a spinoff movie with Luke Hobbs (Johnson) and Deckard Shaw (Statham).
The scene was allegedly filmed because producer Neal Moritz and Universal were so impressed by Johnson's and Statham's chemistry throughout the making of The Fate of the Furious. "They had early screenings where Johnson and Statham popped so much on-screen together that they were looking at doing a spinoff," said one of TheWrap's sources.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 Won’t Have a Season Pass
Star Wars Battlefront II won't feature a season pass, developer DICE has confirmed.
Battlefront II creative director Bernd Diemer confirmed the absence of a season pass in an interview with Mashable. "We don't want to segment our community," he said with regard to why the team opted to forgo a season pass.
Upon looking back at how Battlefront changed over time following its launch in 2015 with the addition of DLC, Diemer said the team came to the conclusion that "for this type of game, season passes are not the best thing" and they need to "come up with something better."
The Last Jedi Characters Are Battlefront 2 Preorder Bonus
During Star Wars Celebration today, EA confirmed that anyone who preorders Battlefront II will also receive The Last Jedi-themed content including “exclusive Kylo Ren and Rey themed looks” based on the characters’ appearances in the upcoming film.
Kylo Ren's The Last Jedi look in Battlefront II
Those skins are unlocked for the game's multiplayer mode, and will include "epic ability upgrades." Alongside that, preorders will also unlock a new First Order ship and The Last Jedi's version of the Millennium Falcon for the game's space combat mode.
Star Wars: Rogue One Sequel Novel Is a Battlefront 2 Tie-In
At Star Wars Celebration today, it was revealed that a previously announced Star Wars novel is actually a tie-in to Star Wars Battlefront II.
During the Battlefront II reveal panel, Christie Golden's novel Inferno Squad was revealed to actually be called Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad. Inferno Squad commander Iden Versio was revealed as the protagonist of Battlefront II, and the tie-in novel will follow, according to Golden, how the Imperial squad met, their first mission, and "how they learned to become this well-oiled machine," according to Golden.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 Multiplayer Preview
Where Battlefront II’s new single player mode is attempting something different (both the mode and its content), the focus for the returning multiplayer component seems to be more about refinement. The last Battlefront got a lot right, but it also occasionally felt like gorgeous blueprints for something better to come. This could well be it.
Burnout creators Criterion have stepped in to take on the game’s vehicles and head up a much-requested new feature; a full space combat mode. While the first game’s baby steps into providing material from films other than the original trilogy have become a bold jump, this will be the first Star Wars game to include material from all three film eras (although Gungans have been studiously absent from the footage we’ve seen - make of that what you will).
Star Wars Battlefront 2 Single-Player Preview
All EA really had to do to make people happy with Battlefront 2’s single-player was announce that they had one. It was an obvious missing piece in 2015’s Battlefront, and in part because of that, I expected Battlefront 2’s campaign to play things safe and avoid overlapping with anything happening in the current films or presenting any challenging controversies of its own. I’m pretty sure I was wrong.
Check out the brand new reveal screenshots below - click right to see them all:
The campaign (which was co-written by Walt Williams, who wrote the highly-acclaimed Spec Ops: The Line) is set right after Death Star 2 explodes, and ends around the time that Starkiller Base does - a story ambitiously spanning almost 30 years. The “point”, according to contributing developer Motive, is to bridge the gap between the original trilogy and the current films, exploring what happens to an Empire without an Emperor. To do that, they decided to let players become the Empire, specifically in the shape of an elite Imperial Commander called Iden Versio, though there will also be segments that have you have you control Luke Skywalker and Kylo Ren.
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Release Date, Story Details Announced
At Star Wars Celebration today, EA announced that Star Wars Battlefront II will be released worldwide on PS4, Xbox One, and PC on November 17 and is now available for preorder.
Battlefront II’s campaign will take place in the 30-year period between the end of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. The story will follow protagonist Iden Versio, who leads an elite Imperial unit called Inferno Squad, and players will get the chance to play as well-known characters like Luke Skywalker and Kylo Ren during the campaign.
According to EA, the campaign is developed by former Ubisoft Toronto head Jade Raymond’s Motive studio, and new characters have been created “in close partnership with the story group at Lucasfilm.” On stage at Celebration, Lucasfilm confirmed that Battlefront II's story will be canon within the Star Wars universe.