Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: Reign of the Empire - The Mask of Fear Star Wars has recently confirmed the existence of "The Century Plan", a key reason for Palpatine's ...

As the video’s narrator says, the prequels weren’t just a tragic tale of a Republic’s collapse. Nor were they about just the personal collapse of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader. “They’re a warning, ...

Emperor Palpatine may have returned to the big screen in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but the Star Wars comics beat the movies to the punch well over thirty years ago. Although no longer in ...

Years ago, Star Wars finally told the story of Darth Plagueis, and it's well past time for Lucasfilm to revisit the subject.

Ian McDiarmid has now been playing Emperor Palpatine for 42 years. First, it was as the mysterious big bad of the original Star Wars trilogy, and then as a Senator who rises to the ultimate position ...

“A lot of people said it was ridiculous,” McDiarmid shared with Empire Magazine. “Of course, he was dead at the end of Return of the Jedi! And frankly, I think George [Lucas] thought he’d killed me ...

The Star Wars prequels are a Death Star with a discourse-powered tractor beam still pulling in deliriously impassioned takes all these years later. Love them or hate them, either you do. There is no ...

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 ...

All while tightening control over every facet of society.” But several deleted scenes explored this consolidation of power by Chancellor Palpatine even more. One deleted scene even has Palpatine ...