Star Wars: The Clone Wars premiered during a very different time at Lucasfilm. The prequels had finished three years prior, and George Lucas was planning on moving into television. His goals were simple: To create a live-action TV show and 100 episodes of the CGI animated series. Although the live a...
Read MoreLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD! When I was fifteen, my mom got remarried. Like any kid that age, I was very nervous to be living with a whole bunch of new people. Sure, I’d met them before, but I’d never spent any amount of extended time with them. The night we all moved in together, all the siblings w...
Read MoreThe Pride Lands are about to get the live-action treatment as the first teaser for Jon Favreau’s remake of The Lion King has been released. Like most people of my generation, I loved The Lion King growing up. It was the first movie I saw four times in the theater (a record that has since … ...
Read MoreFull disclosure: I was trying to avoid writing this one, in part because I just did a Star Wars-centric piece and I wanted to space (no pun intended) out Star Wars articles. Yet when the Rogue One TV series was announced with Diego Luna reprising the role of Cassian Andor, the possibilities began ro...
Read MoreWhen I first saw the trailers for The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, I was excited. It looked like a brand new fantasy world for fans to sink their teeth into, though my enthusiasm was tempered a bit by this world having a veneer of “sameness” resembling other Disney features like Alic...
Read MoreLucasfilm is going back to the well once again – albeit one of the shallower parts of the well – as Disney CEO Bob Iger announced earlier that a series revolving around Cassian Andor will be coming to Disney + (formerly Disney Play, or so we thought). Cassian Andor is the Rebel spy played by &he...
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