The final chapter in Star Wars’ Skywalker Saga, The Rise of Skywalker, was controversial, to say the least. Perhaps most controversial was the choice to bring back Ian McDiarmid as Emperor Palpatine, ...

The Star Wars heroesoverthrew the evil Galactic Empire and stopped it from returning, but what if Emperor Palpatine had won and carried out his plans to their full potential? Palpatine was brilliant ...

In the grand scheme of Star Wars, the Empire is the worst of all the galactic governments for one simple reason: it barely lasted three decades. Talk about Star Wars is usually hyper-focused on the ...

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, ...

In Star Wars, Emperor Palpatine serves as the scary Big Bad in a galaxy far, far away, with his malign … Continue reading ...

“In order to ensure our security and continuing stability,” Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) told the Senate in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, “the Republicwill be ...

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 ...

Dr. Hemlock greets the Emperor in The Bad Batch Season 3. By the end of the third episode, Omega and Crosshair escape Tantiss and are on the run from the Empire. When Hemlock learns of Omega’s M-count ...

New Zealand native Clive Revill, a London theatre actor and known as the original voice of Emperor Palpatine in “The Empire Strikes Back,” died on March 11. He was 94. Revill’s daughter confirmed with ...