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Star Wars

Vox's coverage of the Star Wars movie franchise: film news, updates, reviews, interviews, trailers, and more.

Star Wars has a Baby Yoda problem

By Aja Romano

How fandom sent Boba Fett from minor character to leading man

By Luke Winkie

Gina Carano’s controversial firing from The Mandalorian, explained

By Emily St. James

The Mandalorian is falling in love with its big moments. That’s a problem.

By Emily St. James

You don’t have to love Star Wars to dig The Mandalorian

By Allegra Frank

The Rise of Skywalker is now on Disney+

By Allegra Frank

Star Wars ended the decade on a rough note. At least it had Babu Frik.

By Allegra Frank

“Release the JJ cut”: the Star Wars conspiracy that offers fans an impossible fantasy

By Aja Romano

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s co-writer thinks he told Rose Tico’s complete story in barely over a minute

By Alex Abad-Santos

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to be the opposite of The Last Jedi

By Alex Abad-Santos and Alissa Wilkinson

The Rise of Skywalker’s huge opening weekend was still a big miss by Star Wars standards

By Alex Abad-Santos

Welcome to the Star Wars zoo

By Emily St. James

The crushing disappointment of Rey’s parentage

By Emily St. James

Critics are panning Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker for fan service and a lack of ambition

By Alex Abad-Santos

Burger King is using Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker spoilers to sell Whoppers

By Alex Abad-Santos

Baby Yoda: the Mandalorian’s adorable alien co-star, explained

By Allegra Frank

Disney+’s Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, is a triumph of atmosphere — and little else

By Emily St. James

Game of Thrones’ showrunners won’t be directing Star Wars after all

By Aja Romano

Watch the final trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker

By Alex Abad-Santos

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s D23 trailer teases an “evil” Rey

By Alex Abad-Santos

Star Wars: Episode IX is titled The Rise of Skywalker. Watch the first teaser now.

By Allegra Frank

Why Disney is pulling back on its Star Wars release schedule, according to CEO Bob Iger

By Karen Han

Star Wars’ Kelly Marie Tran speaks out on the harassment that drove her off Instagram

By Constance Grady

Star Wars: Episode IX announces its cast — which includes Carrie Fisher

By Emily St. James

The 7 biggest highlights of Comic-Con 2018

By Karen Han

Star Wars fans harassed Kelly Marie Tran for months. She just deleted her Instagram posts.

By Constance Grady

What a pansexual Lando Calrissian reveals about the evolution of Star Wars

By Aja Romano

The Game of Thrones creators are writing a new series of Star Wars movies

By Caroline Framke

The Last Jedi came thrillingly close to upending Star Wars — but lost its nerve

By David Roberts

Rian Johnson, the creative force behind Star Wars: The Last Jedi, explained

By Alissa Wilkinson

The “backlash” against Star Wars: The Last Jedi, explained

By Emily St. James

Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s director and producer on fan theories and defying “wish fulfillment”

By Alissa Wilkinson
Chewbacca’s son Lumpy in the Holiday Special.
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The Star Wars spinoff George Lucas wants to destroy 

By Christophe Haubursin

Star Wars’ porgs and the power of “charismatic minifauna,” explained

By Alex Abad-Santos

Star Wars: The Last Jedi spoilers: the truth about Rey is revealed. Or is it?

By Emily St. James

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi: reviews, spoilers, and analysis for one of the franchise’s best films

By Vox Staff

Star Wars fans are pretty excited for The Last Jedi — but they’re REALLY excited for porgs

By Aja Romano

Star Wars: The Last Jedi first full trailer: Rey faces an unexpected choice

By Aja Romano

J.J. Abrams is officially returning to Star Wars for Episode IX

By Alex Abad-Santos

Star Wars' Han Solo prequel just changed directors months into filming. That’s highly unusual.

By Alissa Wilkinson