Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the video’s narrator says, the prequels weren’t just a tragic tale of a Republic’s collapse. Nor were they about just the ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

A new Emperor Palpatine retcon revealed by Andor creator Tony Gilroy makes Return of the Jedi's best scene even better. Though Palpatine never appeared in either season of Andor, his influence was ...

Kendall Myers is a Senior Author with Collider. As part of the TV and Movies Features team, she writes about some of the most popular releases before, during, and after they premiere. In three years, ...

The moment Darth Vader sacrifices himself to kill Emperor Palpatine and save Luke is undoubtedly a fantastic Vader scene, but the buildup comprises an even better Luke scene. After exchanging words ...

But there was one influence Lucas wasn’t remotely subtle about and that’s how much Palpatine’s rise to Emperor in the prequels was a direct analogy to Hitler’s ascendency in 1930s Germany. But in the ...

Several deleted scenes from Revenge of the Sith further explain how Palpatine took control, and how the Rebellion was formed in Star Wars. When George Lucas created the Star Wars saga, it was a ...