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Liam Neeson Blasts “So Many” Star Wars Spinoffs: “It’s Taken Away the Mystery and the Magic”
The actor believes Disney's expansion strategy is "diluting" the franchise. Liam Neeson Blasts “So Many” Star Wars Spinoffs: “It’s Taken Away the Mystery and the Magic” Eddie Fu
Nicolas Cage “Not Really Down” to Act in Star Wars: “I’m a Trekkie, Man”
You won’t catch Nicolas Cage in a galaxy far, far away anytime soon. In a new interview with Yahoo Entertainment, the actor thespian said he’s “not really down” with acting in the Star Wars films or series, explaining, “I’m a Trekkie, man.” Cage was responding to comments made by The Mandalorian‘s Pedro Pascal, his costar in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, who noted at D23 last year that he had been trying to recruit Cage to appear in the Star Wars universe. But according to Cage, “I’m not really down. I’m a Trekkie, man,” he said. “I’m on the Enterprise. That’s where I roll.” Caged added that he “grew up watching [William] Shatner. I thought [Chris] Pine was terrific in the movies. I think the movies are outstanding...
HHW Gaming: ‘Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’ & Other Big Announcements From The Game Awards
Written By Bernard “Beanz” Smalls , Staff Writer Posted 6 hours ago @photosbybeanz Meet Bernard Smalls, better known as Beanz. He is the Men’s Lifestyle & Pop Culture writer for Cassius Life plus handles tech and video games for Hip-Hop Wired. Beanz has been with the company since 2019 and has been working as a writer for eight years. His favorite hobbies include video games, of course, and watching a lot of movies, mainly sci-fi. He also moonlights as a photographer in his spare time. @photosbybeanz Follow @photosbybeanz HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Respawn Entertainment / Star Wars Jedi: Survivor The Game Awards are not just about handing out trophies. We also get to see trailers for the games we are looking forward to and titles we didn’t know were comi...
HHW Gaming: ‘Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Release Date & New Key Art Arrive Ahead of The Game Awards
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Respawn Entertainment / Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the highly anticipated follow-up to the Jedi: Fallen Order, has a new poster and release date ahead of The Game Awards. We don’t need a Jedi mind trick to confirm that EA delivered the definitive single-player Star Wars experience as we followed one of the last few remaining Jedi, Cal Kestis, and his lovable droid companion, BD-1. 2019’s Fallen Order left us with a cliffhanger and yearning for more after Cal encountered the ultimate Sith Lord, Darth Vader, giving the still-green Jedi a taste of his powerful force skills. Cal’s story will continue in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and we will see even more than the teaser trailer that was first shared didn’t show at The Game Awards, Geof...
HHW Gaming: ‘Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Release Date & New Key Art Arrive Ahead of The Game Awards
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Respawn Entertainment / Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the highly anticipated follow-up to the Jedi: Fallen Order, has a new poster and release date ahead of The Game Awards. We don’t need a Jedi mind trick to confirm that EA delivered the definitive single-player Star Wars experience as we followed one of the last few remaining Jedi, Cal Kestis, and his lovable droid companion, BD-1. 2019’s Fallen Order left us with a cliffhanger and yearning for more after Cal encountered the ultimate Sith Lord, Darth Vader, giving the still-green Jedi a taste of his powerful force skills. Cal’s story will continue in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and we will see even more than the teaser trailer that was first shared didn’t show at The Game Awards, Geof...
James Earl Jones Retires As Voice Of Darth Vader
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jeff Kravitz / Getty The legendary actor James Earl Jones has decided to step away from being the voice of Darth Vader & granted permission for an AI firm to use archived files for future projects. According to a report, the 91-year-old actor apparently made the decision to no longer actively voice the villain that he has become synonymous with. Jones felt the inclination to step back while recording for his brief vocal cameo in 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. “He had mentioned he was looking into winding down this particular character,” Matthew Wood, a 32-year veteran with Lucasfilm and Skywalker Sound said to Vanity Fair in an interview. “So how do we move forward?” Related Stories The answer came in the form of a startup, Respeecher. The firm which i...
James Earl Jones Abdicates Darth Vader Voice Role to AI Technology
James Earl Jones has apparently relinquished the role of lead Star Wars antagonist Darth Vader to AI voice technology. The 91-year old actor and EGOT winner originated the character with his vocal performance in 1977’s Star Wars. In a report by Vanity Fair about the Ukrainian start-up Respeecher, it was revealed that the process of transitioning the vocal responsibilities from Jones to the company’s proprietary AI algorithm has been ongoing since the Sith Lord’s revival in the 2022 Star Wars prequel series, Obi-Wan Kenobi. The Respeecher programmers employed an algorithm that uses archival recordings to create new dialogue. Jones provided his singular, sinister take on Darth Vader for a number of Star Wars spin-offs throughout the years, but his last contribution came in 2019’s The Ri...
Squid Game Star Lee Jung-Jae Joins Cast of New Star Wars Series The Acolyte
The cast of the upcoming Disney+ series The Acolyte is growing, and Lee Jung-Jae is the latest big name addition. The Squid Game star will play the male lead in the Star Wars spinoff, Variety reports. Lee will share the screen with fellow lead Amandla Stenberg, and this will mark his first major role post-Squid Game, which set Netflix records and seemingly sent the world into a frenzy. Another Netflix connection: Russian Doll writer-director-executive producer Leslye Headland is developing The Acolyte, which is described as “a mystery-thriller that will take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era.” The Acolyte is just one of many Star Wars-related proj...
Han Solo’s Blaster from Star Wars Auctions for Over $1 Million
The blaster that created the million-dollar question “Who shot first?” for generations of Star Wars fans has now become the million-dollar smoking gun, as the prop used by Harrison Ford’s character Han Solo in 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope was recently sold at auction for $1,057,500. The sale occurred at a collector firearm event hosted by Rock Island Auction Company with initial estimates for the DL-44 Heavy Blaster Pistol ranging from $300,000 to $500,000. During the proceedings, the auctioneer noted the increased press from Comic-Con leading up to it and hyped the item up by saying, “The world is watching on this.” Purportedly the only remaining model in existence of the three made for Star Wars, the blaster design was derived from a German Mauser pistol. George Lucas h...
Mark Ruffalo Says Too Much Marvel Better Than Getting “The Same Version of Star Wars Each Time”
Marvel has released two films and two TV shows this year, with one more of each on the horizon. They also dropped a series of Groot animated shorts, and there are still two Disney+ specials on the way. That’s a slow year for the Marvel Cinematic Universe at this point; there are four films and six shows on the schedule for 2023. But one of the franchise’s stars, Mark Ruffalo, isn’t concerned with Marvel over-saturation — because at least it’s not Star Wars. Speaking with UK’s Metro about his return to playing Hulk in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Ruffalo said too much Marvel content is “not something I worry about.” He noted that big franchises like this always “run their course” and get replaced by something new, but praised Marvel for its variety. “The thing Marvel has done w...
Disney+ Teases The Birth of The Rebellion In New Trailer For Star Wars Spinoff Series ‘Andor’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Disney+ / Andor Now that Obi-Wan Kenobi has wrapped up and given Star Wars fans what they’ve been dreaming about since the end of Star Wars: Revenge of The Sith, Disney+ is shifting its attention to its next Star Wars spinoff series, and it won’t be long before it starts streaming. Yesterday fans got a new trailer for Disney+’s newest series, Andor, which centers around Diego Luna’s character of Cassian Andor and will serve as a precursor to the events of the Star Wars prequel, Rogue One. Basically, it’s a prequel to the prequel. Showing how Andor went from a soldier of the evil Empire to a man down with the resistance, the trailer shows how he got involved with the movement as a child before being recruited to fight the oppressors by Stellan Skarsgård. R...
Obi-Wan Kenobi Writer on Reviving Vader and Leia For the Disney+ Series
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi Episode 3.] The morning after the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi premiered on Disney+, writer and executive producer Joby Harold went to Disneyland with his kids. “We were at Rise of the Resistance, doing the Star Wars Disney of it… Please click the link below to read the full article. Obi-Wan Kenobi Writer on Reviving Vader and Leia For the Disney+ Series Liz Shannon Miller [flexi-common-toolbar] [flexi-form class=”flexi_form_style” title=”Submit to Flexi” name=”my_form” ajax=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”post_title” class=”fl-input” title=”Title” value=”” required=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=...
