Happy Sunday, and welcome to the latest edition of “This Week, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away“. I took last Sunday off for personal reasons, but we’re now back! Despite that, there’s still not a lot going on in Star Wars, other than the Andor Emmy nominations (and a surprise Acolyte cameo!). There will not be another live-action show until Ahsoka Season 2 in 2026 (the show is currently in production) and the next animated series to debut will likely be Star Wars: Visions — Volume 3, on October 29.
We are now two months away from Star Wars: Starfighter to start shooting, which means more members of the cast should start getting announced soon. Meanwhile, it seems like Kathleen Kennedy may have to wait even longer for her Taika Waititi Star Wars movie. Could the announcement of Waititi’s Judge Dredd movie be related to Kennedy’s forthcoming departure?
This past week, Josh published a new Character Spotlight piece on Yaddle. On our YouTube side, we had plenty of new content. Our latest SWNN Live! episode recapped the 14 Andor Emmy nominations, while we also had two new episodes of The Timeline Show, and a new episode of Deep Space Cinema.
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Three Things That May Have Flown Casual
- Is it 2017 all over again? That unexpected and inexplicable boost in engagement that Battlefront II suffered in May was enough to push the nearly eight-year-old game into the 12th spot for sales of that month. Between that and Rian Johnson talking about The Last Jedi, I had a few dèja vu lately.
- Everyone wants a job: David Corenswet is out there saying he’d rather be in a Star Wars movie than in a Superman sequel. Something to think about? In the meantime, here’s Chris’ review of Superman for our soon-to-be-revived sister site Movie News Net!
- Publishing updates: New reviews are out for Legacy of Vader #6 (by Sydney), The Bad Batch: Ghost Agents #5 (by Josh), Star Wars #3 (by Josh), and The High Republic Adventures #20 (by Nate). We also had a new excerpt from the Bad Batch novel Sanctuary, and a new set of cover reveals for Wave 14 of Essential Legends Collection.
Quote of the Week
“It’s the sort of thing if, down the line, there’s an opportunity to do it, or do something else in Star Wars, I would be thrilled. But right now I’m just doing my own stuff, and pretty happy.”
That was Rian Johnson finally acknowledging, years later, that he will not be lighspeeding to a galaxy far, far away anytime soon. This isn’t news, of course, but I’m highlighting it here because of how long overdue this quote has been. For what it’s worth, it’s probably best this way — and I say that as someone who really f-ing loves his Star Wars movie and really didn’t like Glass Onion.
Runner Up
“It’s not on the menu right now. I’ll never say never.”
Tony Gilroy needed to start coming up with a different answer to the question he gets asked every time — will he ever come back to Star Wars? Please stop asking. He won’t. And that’s ok.
What Went Right and Wrong for Andor at the Emmys
The Emmy nominations were announced this past week, and Star Wars landed 15 nominations. Andor Season 2 got 14 nominations, while The Acolyte, quite out of the blue, got away with a nom in Outstanding Sound Editing – Half Hour for episode 5, “Night.”
Andor‘s large number of nominations was not surprising, although I must admit I was expecting a few more. The series, as predicted, was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series, but I don’t anticipate it will be competitive in that category, which will probably go to either Severance or The White Lotus.
Perhaps most surprising, there were no acting nominations other than wild shoutouts to Forest Whitaker and Alan Tudyk. Diego Luna was a surprise, and as a big The Last of Us fan, I do not understand how Pedro Pascal got it before him. But no Genevieve O’Reilly either, or Stellan Skarsgård. Adria Arjona had little to do in the season overall, so I’m not super surprised there.
Unfortunately, most of the nominations were for below-the-line categories. (Tony Gilroy did express his disappointment in the lack of acting nominations.) This is no surprise, of course, nor is it that the Ghorman arc was also highlighted in the directing and writing categories. Moreover, episode 8, “Who Are You?”, gathered six of the fourteen nominations by itself. Lucasfilm was confident they had a winner there, and it paid off. (Honestly, I enjoyed the last arc even more, but it’s an embarrassment of riches for me.)
So what happened? This is the same story as in every other awards show. It’s not as much a “How dare they not nominate X?” but rather a “That was some stiff competition this year!” Yes, I have some questions about Pedro Pascal (mostly because of the category he was submitted for, a decision by the network that I think voters should have penalized instead of endorsing) But can I really make the case that Diego Luna was so much better than Sterling K. Brown, Gary Oldman, Adam Scott, or Noah Wyle in their respective shows? Honestly, no.
I would have liked to see Elizabeth Dulau nominated in Best Supporting Actress (the category she was submitted for). But can I really make the case that she, or Genevieve O’Relly, was so much better than the women nominated for that category? I think that perhaps Parker Posey or Natasha Rothwell were propelled forward by the classic Emmys herd mentality around shows they really like (The White Lotus), but I’m sure there are other performers that could have gotten a chance just as much as the Andor girls. (Allison Janney was also shut out, for instance.)
My money for Best Drama is on Severance (although I’m crossing fingers for The Pitt), and it feels like the Apple TV Plus show will run away with the Directing and Writing categories as well. Andor only submitted episodes 8 and 9, respectively, in those categories, so it feels good that they at least landed those nominations. HBO will probably land the Guest Actor category, with my money on Jeffrey Wright at the moment. I am hopeful, however, that the show will earn at least one statue — something that didn’t happen in Season 1.
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Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
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