star wars: the phantom menace Archives

Despite his appearances on Tales of the Jedi and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Liam Neeson thinks the various Star Wars spinoffs take away from franchise.

While promoting his latest thriller film Memory, the actor offered up how he want Qui-Gon Jinn to return to the franchise. Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) Image courtesy of Lucasfilm "Oh, I think so, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so … if it was a film Yeah, I'm a bit[...]

As Disney released the teaser for their long-awaited live-action series Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi featuring the triumphant return of Ewan McGregor as the title character, questions naturally turned to what else from the franchise lore will we see? While it's confirmed that Hayden Christensen will also make his franchise return as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, fans[...]

It's the last day of Star Wars Celebration Chicago and we are live at the 20th anniversary of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace panel This is a movie that got a lot of flack of the time and it's going to be interesting to see how it is received in a setting with people who[...]

A new Twitter account has popped up this week that shares photos from various movie premieres over the years and it is quite hilarious.

Gunn's sentiments were in response to comments Gunn received after he tweeted a link to a news story about Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best revealing that he considered suicide after the backlash to Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. More recently, actress Kelly Marie Tran was forced off social media by fan harassment in response to[...]

pic.twitter.com/NvVnImoJ7N — Ahmed BEst (@ahmedbest) July 3, 2018 Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, the first Star Wars prequel and the debut of Jar Jar Binks, came out in 1999, or 20 years ago next year Thankfully, Best persevered, and he's gone on to champion Jar Jar's role in CGI history. Co-star Natalie Portman also recently struck back at[...]

While Howard may be an Academy Award winning director, that doesn't mean he has the best taste when it comes to Star Wars films. Back when Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was being released back in 1999, Howard wrote into Newsweek to defend actor Jake Lloyd from criticism published by the magazine. "While your Buzz Wars, Episode[...]