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Disney+ Finally Arrives in South Africa
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Spider-Man Director Jon Watts to Helm Star Wars Series Inspired by 1980s Steven Spielberg
Have you ever wondered what the Goonies would make of a Gungan, or wanted to see how E.T. and Elliot would handle the Hutts? We may find out, because Jon Watts, who directed the latest Spider-Man trilogy, has been tapped to helm a new Star Wars series for Disney+, and according to Lucasfilm it’s inspired by Steven Spielberg’s “classic Amblin coming-of-age adventure films of the ’80s.” As Vanity Fair reports, Watts’ series is currently known by the code name Grammar Rodeo, which is a reference to an episode of The Simpsons in which Bart and his friends lie to their parents about attending a scholarly competition and instead go joyriding in a car. Watts co-created the project with writer Chris Ford; the pair previously worked together on the screenplay...
Star Wars Needs to Embrace Recasting Classic Characters
In an epic Vanity Fair feature published Tuesday, Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy laid out how the next phase of Star Wars is focused on television, with the serialized saga of The Mandalorian and its spin-offs soon to be joined by other series set in different periods and starring different characters. While offering up a hard sell on the exciting projects on the horizon, with some exceptionally charming Ewan McGregor and Diego Luna quotes for flavor, writer Anthony Breznican does also explore some recent missteps made during production. To quote from the piece: To keep minting fans, Lucasfilm must give new generations their own collection of characters to love and hate, and not every classic character can be brought back endlessly anyway. Kennedy is well aware of all this now. In The Mandal...
Peep The Latest Trailer To Disney+’s ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Disney+ / Disney+ May the 4th be with you! To celebrate Star Wars Day 2022, Disney+ has released a brand new trailer for the highly anticipated Obi-Wan Kenobi series and if you’re a hardcore Star Wars fan, you will not be disappointed… in the trailer at least. In the latest trailer we find that Obi-Wan was not only keeping tabs on a young Luke Skywalker on Tantooine, but was even already planning on training him in the ways of the Jedi when the time was right. A plan that Luke’s uncle wasn’t too fond of given how things played out with Luke’s father, Darth Vader. Living a life in exile while on the run from the Galactic Empire, Obi-Wan must find a way to survive until Luke is old enough to get the proper training and right the wrongs of his father. Spoile...
HHW Gaming: Xbox Celebrates May The 4th With Custom LEGO ‘Star Wars’ Series S Consoles
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Xbox / Star Wars Custom Xbox Series S Consoles Happy Star Wars Day, and to celebrate, Xbox is giving away custom Xbox Series S consoles that *Jedi mind trick voice* you do want in your collection. May The 4th, the official Star Wars holiday is here, and to ring in the day beloved by nerds and blerds, Xbox has announced a new contest. Coming on the heels of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga launch, Xbox has teamed up with LEGO and Lucas Arts to make 12 custom Xbox Series S consoles featuring iconic characters from the 9 Star Wars Skywalker saga films. From May 4 to May 25, gamers can try to get their hands on one of the 12 consoles by simply following the Xbox Twitter account and retweeting the official sweepstakes tweet with #LegoSta...
The Skywalker Saga Brings LEGO and Star Wars Games to New Heights
Calling LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga “huge” is probably still an understatement. As one might’ve guessed from the title, the latest LEGO-based video game features their signature stylized version of all nine main Star Wars tales. To tell those stories, the game features more than eight hours of music by legendary Star Wars composer John Williams and additional two-and-a-half hours of additional new music — and that’s not even counting the 15,000 lines of dialogue (per each of the game’s 9 available languages) strewn throughout the massive undertaking. The Skywalker Saga’s launch last month was also unsurprisingly one of the biggest in LEGO history, as bringing all of the beloved (and less beloved) Star Wars movies into one family-friendly humor-filled game was bound to be popular. Bu...
May The 4th Be With You: Meta Quest & ILMxLAB Team Up For Star Wars Day Content
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: ILMxLAB / ILMxLAB Star Wars Day is soon approaching and fans of the vast universe of the Star Wars franchise will undoubtedly spread the vibes of the Force across the galaxy, or, in this case, the metaverse. Meta Quest and ILMxLABm, the immersive studio from Lucasfilms, joined, ahem, “forces” to bring fans some exciting Star Wars Day activities. Source: ILMxLAB / ILMxLAB Meta Quest 2, the leading all-in-one VR experience, is the place for fans to get into the full slate of Meta Quest’s Star Wars experiences for 50% off retail price from now through May 5. Below are the descriptors for the Meta Quest Star Wars experiences: Source: ILMxLAB / ILMxLAB ILMxLAB’s Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge is an action-adventure experience where you’ll take on the ...
Disney+ Annual Subscription Now Available in SA: All the Details
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Christopher Lloyd Joins Mandalorian Season 3 Cast
Doc Brown really doesn’t need roads for where he’s going next: Back to the Future star Christopher Lloyd has been tapped for the upcoming third season of Disney+’s The Mandalorian. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the details of Lloyd’s role in the hit Star Wars series are being kept under wraps for now, but it’s been described as “guest-starring in nature.” Disney has yet to reveal the release date for The Mandalorian Season 3, but it’s been rumored that we’ll see Lloyd trade in his DeLorean for a galactic battleship sometime this December. Filming is under way now, so stay tuned here for more info as it comes. If you need more Star Wars-themed entertainment in the meantime, Disney+ also recently unveiled The Book of Boba Fett, a Mandalorian spinoff series. The Se...
Darth Maul Was Originally Supposed To Appear In Disney+’s ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Series
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ethan Miller / Getty With anticipation building for Disney+’s latest Star Wars spinoff series, Obi-Wan Kenobi, information about the series is slowly being released. The latest interesting tidbit is that Darth Maul was originally supposed to be Obi-Wan’s main antagonist and the role was going to be reprised by actor Ray Park. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the fan-favorite villain from Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace was expected to make his big comeback in the new Obi-Wan series but was written out at the last minute in favor for the classic Star Wars bad guy, Darth Vader. The series writer, Hossein Amini was working with director Deborah Chow on the six-episode series but when they presented Star Wars stewards Dave Filoni and Jon Fav...
Darth Maul Scenes Were Scrapped from Obi-Wan Kenobi Series: Report
Sorry, Sith Lord fans, but Darth Maul likely won’t be appearing in the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series starring Ewan McGregor. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the villain was originally planned to appear in the Star Wars show, but the scenes were scrapped during a creative overhaul that instead added in Darth Vader. The report even says actor Ray Park, who portrayed Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace and Solo: A Star Wars Story, was “in active prep” to reprise the role in the live-action Disney+ series. However, that all changed when original Obi-Wan writer Hossein Amini and director Deborah Chow showed Lucasfilm their scripts. Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau allegedly had concerns about the story covering similar ground as The Mandolorian since Obi-Wan was set to center around its...
Peep The ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Teaser Trailer From Disney+
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Star Wars / Disney+ Disney+ has really been killing it with their Star Wars spinoff series such as The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, but this time around Disney+ will be bringing back a familiar face that many thought they’d never see again. For their next installment into the Star Wars universe, Disney+ will be bringing back Ewan McGregor as the OG Jedi in Obi-Wan Kenobi and if the first teaser trailer is any indication of how the series will be, hang on to your lightsaber because ish is about to get real. In the trailer we get an idea of how things are playing out in a galaxy far, far away as the last remaining Jedi’s are being hunted down by the deadly Inquisitors who are on a mission to rid the universe of the force wielding heroes. One of th...
