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Hollywood is broken. The strikes have made every project a tentative hope. People are playing dirty. The emotions of the labor force is likely going to get angrier. Once writers begin to lose their homes, they will have nothing left to lose but to see the strike through or it was all for nothing. In the last week, I have had meetings with sources about the state of Lucasfilm, Star Wars, and…
If you have been following Star Wars or Hollywood for the last few months you know that everything the industry is in disarray. While the David Zaslavs and the Bob Igers of the industry look for bonuses the size of the GDP of small nations, the people who create the content they live like kings off of are facing extinction. Star Wars: Andor’s second season lost Tony Gilroy when Abdullah Saeed…
I spoke with sources at Disney recently and I heard some pretty interesting things about casting and things currently in motion. If you know this site you know casting is not my strong side and I have always said that. Too often things change during production or deals fall through or whatever. I am not going to drop everything I have heard today but instead what I know has already…
Subscribe to the podcast! Subscribe to the live stream on YouTube! In recent reports, I have laid out what I have heard about the new villains from the Ahsoka Tano series Star Wars: Ahsoka. After having the scoops on who two of the new cast members were playing, I also have laid out their roles in the story. Today I have some more details about the bad cats serving Thrawn and what they have in…
Follow The Making Star Wars Show on Spotify: In a recent report, I outlined how I believed Star Wars: Ahsoka was essentially cut into two parts. The first part is dealing with Sabine’s story issues and The New Republic, while the second part is actually going to find Ezra Bridger in the locale he was whisked away to by the Purrgils alongside Grand Admiral Thrawn and his fleet of Star…
If you have been watching The Making Star Wars Show over the last year, you may have caught a few hints that Genevieve O’Reilly’s Mon Mothma has been a part of the SoCal Star Wars productions in the last year. It should be noted that Andor is a U.K. Star Wars production. However, which productions the character has been apart of were up for debate on my show until today. With Ahsoka and Skeleton…
Last night on The Mandalorian, a dragon was stealing children. The Mandos defeated the mama dragon and took the baby dragons to raise as mounts. My buddy texted me and said “It’s like Fav watched House of the Dragon and thought that’s cool, I’ll have that.” Little did my friend know, Lucasfilm was essentially thinking the same thing. HBO’s House of the Dragon director Geeta Vasant Patel directed…
I have heard about a sequence in Star Wars: Ahsoka where Ezra uses the Force in a way compared to Luke Skywalker shattering the Beehive Hut on Ahch-To when he catches Rey Force Skyping with her evil space boyfriend. However, the difference is one source saying and others confirming Ezra “hadoukens” with the Force. Those conversations with sources on the next Star Wars live action series gave way…
I have a fun casting rumor for you all today. If you have been following me over the years, you know I really don’t like reporting on casting news too much. I mean, sometimes things change, sometimes the actors just lie about their involvement that causes headaches and so forth. Over the last year I have heard this rumor so often, I feel there’s so much smoke there is fire. I usually prefer…
A while back, I was the first to break the exclusive that Moff Gideon would wear a new black and red, horned Mandalorian helmet at some point in Season 3 along with an early version of the Praetorian guards would appear. I also released the artwork for the final design of those guards. Now, I want to slightly elaborate on that story and reveal another look at a new foe for Mando. Season 3…
We have some bad news for Star Wars fans unable to attend Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 this year. It appears the event will not be streamed according to the customer service representative for the event. This means we should not expect YouTube, Twitch or any other platform to stream to the event live, unlike past Celebration events. When asked if the event would be streamed to YouTube…
The Re-Re-Return of Boba Fett Lucasfilm plans to have Star Wars: The Mandalorian’s fourth season filming this October, 2023. I can confirm hires, props, and pre-production work on the fourth season of The Mandalorian is currently underway for the last few weeks. Mando 4 was written early because Hollywood is about to strike. Also, there is a chance Book of Boba Fett season two was also written…
MSW Exclusive: Star Wars: Ahsoka brings the wolf to live action!
“Loth-rat, Loth-cat, Loth-wolf, run. Pick a path and all is done.” One of Dave Filoni’s inspirations for Ahsoka Tano was a character named San from Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke. The character San rides a wolf and as we have seen over the years, Dave Filoni loves those fancy dogs and putting Ahsoka on one. The tradition continues? In 2022, Filoni was able to bring Ahsoka Tano to her own…
Thrawn’s “Kintsugi” Stormtroopers in Star Wars: Ashoka! The Star Wars Sequel trilogy will have an aesthetic influence on the next wave of Dave Filoni’s Star Wars projects. There will be spoilers in this article so you have been warned. That Sequel Trilogy Style Last year, I wrote about how the production of Star Wars: The Mandalorian would incorporate a form of the Praetorian Guards from…
Exclusive: Ivanna Sakhno is Shin in Star Wars: Ahsoka!
Who is Shin? If you have been following the recent stories I have dropped on Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen), you have read a ton of implication that Thrawn has some kind of undead or rebuilt army under his command on the Chimera. Yes, the Chimera! Thrawn’s command ship is in Star Wars: Ahsoka. I have recently broken stories about Babylon, our second in command, played by Ray Stevenson. But who is…
Who is Babylon in Star Wars: Ashoka? Ray Stevenson?
Who is Babylon? Over the last few months, I have heard the name “Babylon” mentioned in relation to Grand Admiral Thrawn in Star Wars: Ahsoka. This character is really important and has an assassin and featured droid under his command. Babylon has come up a lot in conversations with my sources from Manhattan Beach/El Segundo. While Babylon is an interesting choice for a new character’s name, I…
