The purpose of Star Wars Thrills is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of January 31, 2020 in one location. This week includes updates on a life-size Baby Yoda (aka The Child) from Sideshow, leaked footage from the canceled Underworld TV series, the first hints about the upcoming Project Luminous book and comic event, and much more!
Star Wars: Underworld was the working title of a proposed live-action television series that would be set during the timespan between the films Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.
If you read this each week, you should be able to converse fluently with any Star Wars fan on everything from the latest Star Wars developments to the latest toys. And maybe you’ll even share with them something that they might have missed.
Let’s get to it, and don’t hesitate to contact us if you have news or updates that you think should be included in the next installment of Star Wars Thrills!
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker News
The smallest set I made for #StarWars #TheRiseOfSkywalker . Built and painted by the UK Art Department over 8 weeks by just two of my team. I then drove all over the Jordan desert with Art Director Claire Flemming looking for places to film it. Love Miniatures 🙂 pic.twitter.com/AJyJdMZFbl
— kevin jenkins (@kev_jenkins) January 25, 2020
Box Office: The Rise of Skywalker Passes $500 Million in United States – https://t.co/e2N7VzOYvI #StarWars #TheRiseOfSkywalker #Lucasfilm pic.twitter.com/TRvoHan7k3
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) January 27, 2020
“‘Well, one thing we do know is that among the 14,000 ships that arrive with #LandoCalrissian over Exegol in #StarWars: #TheRiseofSkywalker are the Fireball, Jarek Yeager’s racer, and Torra Doza’s ship,’ says Pablo Hidalgo of the Lucasfilm Story Group.”https://t.co/2AeVtpaNIa pic.twitter.com/23UJOaW7K2
— Phil Szostak (@PhilSzostak) January 27, 2020
Matthew Wood says that the very last ADR recording session they did was to change some lines for masked Kylo. He flew to New York & had Adam Driver record them in his own closet, the same day he appeared on Seth Meyers. @SoundWorksTweet https://t.co/12VBxJD2nb #TheRiseOfSkywalker pic.twitter.com/m3ydYuviDe
— sleemo (@sleemo) January 28, 2020
We go inside the Lucasfilm archives to take a closer look at Jannah’s costume from #TheRiseOfSkywalker: https://t.co/84cXX7EvGG pic.twitter.com/0ggqyDKO5n
— Star Wars (@starwars) January 29, 2020
FAME AT LAST! I AM C-3PO was featured (briefly) ON TELEVISION! My friend, Jimmy Kibble's guest, Ben Schwartz, admitted he wrote jokes for me, well 3PO, in TROS. I even included his pic on page 13 of my book. Now he's famous too! Watch and marvel at 4.15…https://t.co/ebKdfOW8Bc
— Anthony Daniels (@ADaniels3PO) January 29, 2020
Oscar-nominated #TheRiseofSkywalker' sound editors David Acord and Matthew Wood share the stories behind Babu Frik and the TIE fighters https://t.co/tNJIIwyijb
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 29, 2020
Label Artwork For Each Disc in Best Buy Exclusive The Skywalker Saga 4K Blu-ray Box Set – https://t.co/83ocDN4DU1 #StarWars @BestBuy #TheSkywalkerSaga pic.twitter.com/l6icwHzkp5
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) January 29, 2020
JJ Abrams comes on stage, says: ‘I’m here to present 3 awards, unless Rian Johnson wants to come back and present the second one’ 😂 – JJ #VESawards @VFXSociety pic.twitter.com/TGaIFq1RGY
— Digital LA (@DigitalLA) January 30, 2020
J.J. Abrams, Katie McGrath Talk Representation in ‘Star Wars’ and at Bad Robot https://t.co/ZKLcGwotyj
— Variety (@Variety) January 30, 2020
Television News and Rumors
Titles & Synopses for First Two Episodes of The Clone Wars Season 7 on Disney+ – https://t.co/ln1vRShEuI #StarWars #TheCloneWars #CloneWarsSaved pic.twitter.com/yDkVTWc74F
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) January 24, 2020
Diego Luna teases #StarWars and Cassian Andor on Disney Plus: "It was hard to start a film knowing you were going to die so fast, but now we can talk about what happened earlier" #VarietyStudio presented by @itsonATT pic.twitter.com/d7k3s59W11
— Variety (@Variety) January 24, 2020
'The Mandalorian' Set Photos Reveal Seamless "Stagecraft" Technology at Work https://t.co/JRMPMnNcyP pic.twitter.com/PC841uzSch
— /Film (@slashfilm) January 24, 2020
One fun thing about this shot, where we're doing a virtual extension of the Razorcrest, is that we were tracking the practical spotlight on that crane and parenting a virtual one in the scene to it, so as the real light moves across the cockpit, the virtual one matches. pic.twitter.com/FFpaboq7G0
— Ian Milham (@Monkey_Pants) January 27, 2020
Somehow, IG-11 is even better knowing this is how he looked on the set during filming. #TheMandalorian pic.twitter.com/NONHgCfdYv
— Jordan Maison (@JordanMaison) January 28, 2020
The Ewoks promo, from 1985. (The Saturday morning cartoon also had its own comic book and toy line.) pic.twitter.com/BqJKao2Th8
— Got Mad Ads (@GotMadAds) January 30, 2020
"Two of the animals I recorded had this really cute, almost childlike quality to them. One was a bat-eared fox and one is a kinkajou." Sound editors David Acord and Matthew Wood share how they found #BabyYoda's initial vocal https://t.co/0RhEBCanl4
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 30, 2020
The Child Wall Mural Made From Over 1,000 Post-it Notes – https://t.co/rENrn5QkRv #StarWars #TheChild #BabyYoda #TheMandalorian #VikingBabyYoda pic.twitter.com/9L8gE7SbX2
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) January 30, 2020
New year, new weekly show! On the first episode of #ThisWeekInStarWars, we round up the latest and greatest Star Wars news, including:
— Star Wars (@starwars) January 30, 2020
✅ #TheCloneWars trailer!
✅ #StarWarsResistance’s S2 finale
✅ #Disneyland After Dark: Star Wars Nite
& more! Presented by @GEICO. pic.twitter.com/E0CDnQbgvi
Around the Web
From Workshop to a Galaxy Far, Far Away – Lee Towersey at TEDxLeamingtonSpa – https://t.co/MLbARvHKdZ #StarWars @artoodetoo #LeeTowersey #Tedx #tedxleam #tedxleamington #TedTalk #r2d2 @StarWars #TheRiseOfSkywalker pic.twitter.com/U1MsTuREvG
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) January 24, 2020
“When your design doesn’t make the cut for the film, but @LEGO_Group breaths new life into its mechanical soul. Never a dull moment designing for @rianjohnson. As seen in The Art of #TheLastJedi.” – Lucasfilm design supervisor James Clyne #StarWars https://t.co/X8koXiXpW6 pic.twitter.com/lt4FqSGkQu
— Phil Szostak (@PhilSzostak) January 25, 2020
“#SoloAStarWarsStory concept art.” – concept artist Vincent Jenkins #StarWars https://t.co/B5X5RuwnNb pic.twitter.com/cQ3q42GnOC
— Phil Szostak (@PhilSzostak) January 29, 2020
Jake Lloyd: Family give update on his health – https://t.co/RbBITuLHf9 #StarWars #FanthaTracks #jakelloyd #geeknewsnow pic.twitter.com/uNvBRXJoxk
— Fantha Tracks (@FanthaTracks) January 30, 2020
Comics
Star Wars #2 preview. In the wake of the events following The Empire Strikes Back, it is a dark time for the heroes of the Rebellion. #comics #comicbooks #starwars https://t.co/6pMNdhU8oc pic.twitter.com/5bD7Z9mc0X
— Graphic Policy (@graphicpolicy) January 26, 2020
Just heard THE RISE OF KYLO REN #1 is going to a THIRD PRINTING. Unheard of. It’ll be out March 4.
— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) January 29, 2020
And… STAR WARS #2 is going to a second printing.
That’s some nice news. In thanks, have an intense, heretofore unseen panel from Kylo #3. (Art by @WillSliney!) pic.twitter.com/p1osweytwa
In the second installment of @Marvel’s upcoming series, Darth Vader is haunted by the memory of Anakin and Padmé. Get an exclusive look at Darth Vader #2 now: https://t.co/mRT7fIBdID pic.twitter.com/BbDWNMqMRT
— Star Wars (@starwars) January 29, 2020
Joining Marvel back in the late 1970s, writer Jo Duffy reflects on her time at the House of Ideas on a new #WomenOfMarvel podcast! Listen: https://t.co/0vRKm4p14e
— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) January 30, 2020
Books
The countdown is on.
— Clayton Sandell (@Clayton_Sandell) January 29, 2020
Star Wars: PROJECT LUMINOUS.
02/24/20#StarWars #ProjectLuminous pic.twitter.com/IIfFfPPVUC
The @Starwars Archives: Eps I-III: 1999-2005. To give you an idea of the process of making this book: For Ep III alone, I looked through 150,000+ photos, concept art, storyboards, and documents at Lucasfilm and Skywalker Ranch, and selected just over 10,000 images to play with. pic.twitter.com/VLfTkSvB2N
— Paul Duncan (@kershed) January 27, 2020
The book is not cancelled. It is not delayed. We understand a few readers have received some notes about the audio edition of their book and are investigating that.
— Star Wars Books (@DelReyStarWars) January 27, 2020
The book will be on-sale on March 17th. And we're very much looking forward to sharing it with you.
Exclusive: A new Star Wars novel, coming this summer, will shed light on Poe Dameron’s past https://t.co/Ymmb5gMweH pic.twitter.com/scVLSfGsyj
— Polygon (@Polygon) January 29, 2020
What is #ProjectLuminous? As already announced, it's a PUBLISHING effort to tell a big, interconnected #StarWars story. KEY: Don't hold your breath for any movie/TV/game tie-ins. On 2/24 we'll learn about stories, characters, release dates & MOST intriguing: the ERA!🤔#NoSpoilers https://t.co/BKVJkrYA6Q
— Clayton Sandell (@Clayton_Sandell) January 30, 2020
CS Interview: Samuel Spitale & Matt Black on Sideshow’s Star Wars Bookhttps://t.co/ZGBzuNykye
— ComingSoon.net (@comingsoonnet) January 30, 2020
Release Date For Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising Novel Pushed Back to October 6 – https://t.co/pBPcIumZDL #StarWars @DelReyStarWars #Thrawn #ThrawnAscendancy pic.twitter.com/YPXzdRziHK
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) January 30, 2020
The iconic training scene on Dagobah from #TheEmpireStrikesBack is reimagined in the adorable upcoming Star Wars picture book, A Jedi, You Will Be. Take a look at concept art sketches from illustrator Mike Deas below. The book (w/ words by Preeti Chhibber) arrives on 10/6. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/9RoXlLioHg
— Star Wars (@starwars) January 30, 2020
Video Games
Rumor: 'Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic' Video Game Remake Might Still Be Happening https://t.co/B4myPCEGYX pic.twitter.com/Z8fMPKNnHt
— /Film (@slashfilm) January 24, 2020
Electronic Arts posted net revenue of $1.6 billion over its most recent financial quarter, up from $1.3 billion over the same period the year before https://t.co/SaLEy3Tqvz
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 30, 2020
Attractions
John Williams Wins Grammy Award for Galaxy's Edge Symphonic Suite – https://t.co/sWISBFUOPj #StarWars #JohnWilliams #Grammy #GalaxysEdge #Grammys2020 pic.twitter.com/lbHk45uOhF
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) January 27, 2020
VIDEO: The Force is strong with Disneyland Paris cast members! https://t.co/bX1qkvEEHx pic.twitter.com/o4IG8qg0MH
— Disney Parks (@DisneyParks) January 27, 2020
The Spork Bites Back at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge – https://t.co/mGFgGskpD7 #StarWars @DisneyParks #GalaxysEdge @WDWNT pic.twitter.com/gGe7XUApxS
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) January 28, 2020
Star Wars: #GalaxysEdge was recognized at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards for its iconic, original theme created by legendary composer, John Williams! https://t.co/NQJSoWnCl4 pic.twitter.com/MU644ecDfd
— Disney Parks (@DisneyParks) January 28, 2020
Follow along on our Instagram as we celebrate the upcoming release of Star Wars: The Clone Wars on @disneyplus with Ashley Eckstein – voice of Ahsoka Tano. Experience the adventure of #StarWarsDayatSea aboard Disney Cruise Line! @starwars pic.twitter.com/13npMJ71jl
— Disney Cruise Line (@DisneyCruise) January 30, 2020
Custom Droids from Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge – https://t.co/tsrGXL8ZS5 #StarWars #FanthaTracks #galaxysedge @ordadventures pic.twitter.com/PVXMviaEm2
— Fantha Tracks (@FanthaTracks) January 30, 2020
Collecting
You can now pre-order a life-size figure of The Child from The Mandalorian! #TheChild #BabyYoda #TheMandalorian https://t.co/lkuF8JXY5o
— Vital Thrills (@vitalthrillscom) January 30, 2020
New pre-orders are up on https://t.co/c6drlwI9Ey! #TheMandalorian, #Ghostbusters, #StarWars #RiseofSkywalker and #DoctorStrange! https://t.co/qbQFgEjveW pic.twitter.com/392UUZRoSK
— Gentle Giant Ltd (@GentleGiantLTD) January 24, 2020
Become a Rebel engineer, start building your own 1:18 replica X-wing today! https://t.co/zbl5kWgNWJ pic.twitter.com/nIxzhFj2Es
— Star Wars UK (@StarWarsUK) January 26, 2020
The #StarWars galaxy is filled with characters we can recreate as official #Lucasfilm statues. We are ready to #AddCharacterToYourSpace with detailed life-sized aliens, beasts, and droids custom-built to your specs. More: https://t.co/g76mOApsIc #CustomCharacterStudio pic.twitter.com/tnC89OcKZH
— Regal Robot (@RegalRobot) January 27, 2020
Trends International Adds More Posters Featuring The Mandalorian & The Child – https://t.co/i7NrRT7Jhy #StarWars @intltrends #TheMandalorian #TheChild #BabyYoda pic.twitter.com/4msA5wcqVJ
— Jedi News (@JediNewsNetwork) January 28, 2020
The #StarWars #TheMandalorian MK1 and #RiseofSkywalker #SithTrooper 1/6 scale busts are now available for everyone to pre-order at https://t.co/htMXpcVAcT! All orders are guaranteed! pic.twitter.com/UiaA3h6O39
— Gentle Giant Ltd (@GentleGiantLTD) January 29, 2020