Around the Web

May 8, 2020 at 12:01 am | Posted in Around the Web, Books, News, Regular Feature, Star Wars, Star Wars Books, Star Wars News, Television, The Clone Wars, Toys & Collectibles, Video Games | Leave a comment

Here is this week’s Around the Web news roundup of Star Wars and beyond.

Book News

• The Hollywood Reporter has a cover reveal, and interview with the author for the upcoming Poe Dameron book Free Fall.
• If you missed BookCon you can check it out here. They had on a bunch of Star Wars authors for May 4th.
• First episode of The Star Wars Show Book Club.

Fandom News

• Deadline has an interview with Dave Filoni talking about TCW, Rebels and The Mandalorian. Dave doesn’t really spill anything juicy. At this point, everything is on the table and possible, but nothing is being revealed to be certain.
• Dave Filoni also spoke with ET about TCW.
• Looper has an interview with TCW animation supervisor Keith Kellogg.
• Vanity Fair has an interview with Shirley Henderson who talk about playing Babu Frik in The Rise of Skywalker.
• Josh Trank talks with Polygon about his Boba Fett movie and why he quit, thought it’s about 3/4 of the way down the article.
• Clone Wars Download for “Shattered.”

• This Week in Star Wars.

Movie & Television News

• D23 is going to live stream a cast reunion for TCW today.
• The soundtracks for Star Wars: The Clone Wars season seven are now available on Amazon.

Toy News

• Jedi News, Fantha Tracks and a couple other sites took part in a Q&A with Hasbro concerning the Star Wars line. You can check it out here.
• The Amazon Black Series exclusives are up: 4-LOM and Zuckuss, Han in carbonite, and carbonized Darth Vader.
• The Force Unleashed Shadow Stormtrooper is available at GameStop.
• Hot Toys revealed their 1:6 scale ESB Darth Vader, and 1:6 scale ESB Boba Fett.

Video Game News

• EA released a free update for Jedi: Fallen Order this week. IGN has a video showing off the content.

• EA revealed that they’re working on more stories to turn Jedi: Fallen Order into a franchise due to its success.

Posted By: Skuldren for Roqoo Depot.