Is Billy Dee Williams Returning to Star Wars?
Billy Dee Williams is getting people excited. In a Twitter post earlier tonight, Williams teased “something truly magnificent” that will be revealed soon. He ended his message with “May the Force be with you all.” Billy Dee Williams, of course, played Lando Calrissian, an old smuggling friend of Han Solo’s, in two Star Wars films, […]
Justin Simien Learned He was Fired from Lando from Social Media
Justin Simien, director of Dear White People and Disney’s Haunted Mansion, was set to write and act as showrunner for Lando, the Donald Glover-starring Disney+ Solo spinoff about Star Wars character Lando Calrissian. A couple of days ago, we learned that Simien had been replaced by Glover and his brother Stephen last year. But while […]
Donald Glover to Write Lando Series with his Brother
Remember Lando, the Lando Calrissian show Lucasfilm has been planning? Me neither, but it’s in the news again because, in a shocking development you’d never expect on a Lucasfilm project, the series’ writer, Justin Simien, has been replaced. According to an exclusive from Above the Line, Donald Glover (who played Lando in Solo: A Star […]
LucasFilm Confirms Ahsoka Series, Hayden Christensen to Appear in Obi-Wan Kenobi and More Star Wars News
Thursday was the Walt Disney Company’s Investor Day, which means they made a lot of announcements. Taking a look at the Star Wars properties coming soon to the Disney+ galaxy, we have official confirmation that Hayden Christensen will reprise his role of Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. In addition, Rosario Dawson’s live-action […]
Donald Glover to Star in Lando Show
Mothers, lock up your gender-non-specific droids. According to Kessel Run Radio, Donald Glover will be reprising Billy Dee Williams’ role of Lando Calrissian in a TV series. It isn’t specified, but presumably, a Lando show would air on Disney+. Glover portrayed a young Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story, alongside Alden Ehrenreich, who […]
First Trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Released
It’s almost time to return to the galaxy far, far away as the first teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX – or, as we can now call it, The Rise of Skywalker – has arrived. Check out the Rise of Skywalker trailer below: While I was slightly miffed that we weren’t getting to see […]