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Amazing New 'Star Wars' Art Brings A New Meaning To The Dark Side
As with any good story, Star Wars serves as an inspiration to many. And as with any good fandom, that inspiration often gets translates into fan art. Drawings, animations, fan films, cosplays, and the like are constantly created, shared, and admired by the legions of devoted Star Wars fans across the globe. This is partly due to the stunning visuals and cinematography in the film productions, as well as the multitude of Ralph McQuarrie concept art for the original trilogy that still captivates and fascinates fans to this day. McQuarrie's work has even been credited as a direct inspiration for the art style of the animated show Star Wars Rebels, with thinner lightsaber blades and the introduction of the Lasat species, based off of McQuarrie's early vision for Chewbacca. Recently, reimaginings of fan favorite dark side characters, and one not so well liked or evil characters, have captured the attention of the Star Wars fandom. The renderings take Star Wars characters with iconic imagery and give them a unique spin that is equal parts Doom, The Lord of the Rings, and Night of the Living Dead. If you've ever wanted to know what Kylo Ren would look like if he made a literal deal with the devil, artist Kevin Cassidy has you covered.
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in FuturismA Deep Dive On Mortis
The great animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars brought to fans many amazing stories within the Star Wars galaxy and explored a lot of the mythology itself. One of the great things we fans got to explore more of was the mysteries of the Force. To be more specific, the Ones.
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in Futurism'Star Wars' Prequel Actress Trisha Noble Has Died
Actress Trisha Noble has passed away recently on January 23, 2021. The actress and singer reportedly died due to complications from mesothelioma, a type of cancer caused by the inhalation of asbestos fibers. She was 76 years old.
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in FuturismA Brief History Of The Sith
What follows is the known history of the Sith until Darth Bane's Rule of Two. The Sith history that we are most familiar with are the events surrounding Anakin Skywalker and his descendants as portrayed in the main Star Wars movies from Episode I: The Phantom Menace to Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. Much of the Sith lore set chronologically prior to the start of the prequel trilogy is considered Legends, and not yet officially recognized as canon. This author will make such distinctions as appropriate.
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in FuturismHow Long Ago Is "A Long Time Ago?"
This tagline above has been at the beginning of nearly all Star Wars movies, as well as the beginning of many books, comics, and video games. Basically, it’s the Star Wars version of a fairytale’s “Once upon a time.”
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in FuturismThe Unique Way Master Yoda Trained His Padawans
Disney has kicked off its Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia event, which will be told across multiple books, comics, and eventually cross over onto Disney+ with the newly announced The Acolyte series. This week, IDW released the first issue of their Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures comic series. Minor spoilers ahead, for those that have not yet read any of The High Republic material.
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in FuturismDarth Vader And Grand Moff Tarkin Almost Crossed Paths In 'Rogue One'
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was a huge turning point for the franchise under Disney back in 2016. It was the first Star Wars theatrical film to be set outside of the Skywalker saga within canon. The film turned out to be a huge critical and financial success, as well as one of the most popular films in the Star Wars community. But one of the great things about it is some ties to the main saga and some familiar faces. Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin and, of course, Darth Vader, returned to the franchise in live-action for the first time in years. However, these two important characters in the franchise never even shared a scene together in the final product.
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in Futurism'Star Wars' Reveals Exclusive Death Trooper-Like Clones From 'The Bad Batch'
Via reporting from CBR.com, we have learned that recent Star Wars reveals indicate that death troopers, the Empire's elite stormtrooper guards first seen escorting Imperial Director Orson Krennic and fighting against the Rebels on Scarif in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), may have derived their looks from a newly revealed clone trooper that will appear in The Bad Batch. The death troopers have also been featured elsewhere, protecting Imperial dignitaries in other recent Star Wars series such as Rebels and The Mandalorian, so they are not just a one-and-done, and we are seeing their evolution thanks to an action figure being released by Hasbro, which is of a trooper type set to be introduced in the upcoming Star Wars Disney+ animated series, The Bad Batch.
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in FuturismThe Alternate Reylo Moment That Fans Never Got
When the Star Wars sequel trilogy started, viewers were not completely certain what would be the endgame for Rey and Kylo Ren. Some people shipped them right away, and others were heavily against the pairing because of Kylo's despicable actions. It was a bit of a surprise when the last chapter of the trilogy, The Rise of Skywalker, ended with Ben Solo turning back to the light side, reviving a dead Rey, getting a kiss from her, and then dying peacefully because of all the effort that it took for him to revive her. Some people liked this ending, and some were put off by it, because it (intentionally or not) felt like it was sending a message that people could only be redeemed by dying. We saw this happen with Anakin Skywalker, so this felt like another retread.
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in FuturismWhat An Open World 'Star Wars' Game Could Look Like
As Lucasfilm Games gears up to launch a new era of Star Wars gaming in partnership with multiple other studios, their first project will be something that fans have long been calling for. Open-world games have always been extremely popular among gamers, with choices having real impacts on the outcome of the story, considerable freedom in your approach to gameplay, as well as customization in character look and equipment. Games such as Fallout, Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and The Elder Scrolls have all been immense success for their studios and still hold audiences today. Recently, in an Wired article, Lucasfilm Games announced a partnership with Ubisoft to develop an open world Star Wars title. Fans have already begun speculating what this game could look like and what kind of story will drive the player through everything the game has to offer.
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in FuturismWhat We Can Hope For From A KOTOR Remake
Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic, for many people, was, and still is, the pinnacle of all Star Wars games, having sold millions of copies and won multiple Game of the Year awards back when it was first released in 2003. Not simply just another jaunt to a galaxy far, far away, it helped make the idea of choice and consequence in games mainstream, and has continued to define much of the current landscape of gaming today, nearly 20 years since its debut. Taking place almost 4,000 years before the events of the film series we all know and love, it also provided much in terms of what it was able to depict in the Star Wars universe, with a creativity and flair we hadn’t yet seen at the time outside of the movies. It was also able to re-contextualize the mythos of both the Jedi and the Sith using many pre-established events and characters that had been touched upon in the Legends canon to help fill in the larger gaps of its own story.
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in FuturismThe Way Palpatine Cut The Jedi Off From The Force Is Finally Revealed
One of the major factors in the Star Wars prequels that allowed Sheev Palpatine (AKA Darth Sidious) to completely fool the Jedi to the point where he managed to kill almost all of them and take over the galaxy was that the Jedi's ability to use the Force was diminished, as Mace Windu repeatedly says. It seems unclear exactly what this means and how much it would have helped the Jedi anyway. The impression that many people got from the movies is that Palpatine was using the dark side of the Force to suppress the powers of the Jedi, thereby making them unable to sense his ill intentions. Given the roster of powerful Jedi that included Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu, and, of course, Yoda, this would potentially make him the most powerful person in the galaxy.
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in Futurism