Our
@abc
team in Puerto Rico has been with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz as she's been using a megaphone & radio to coordinate getting meals & water to the elderly, & helping with rescues and clearing debris. Today the President of the United States attacks her on Twitter.
EXCLUSIVE: I’m excited to share rare & never-seen footage, outtakes & bloopers from
#StarWars
“The Empire Strikes Back”! Amazing moments with Harrison & Carrie, plus
@HamillHimself
's "Tauntaun Dance". A gift to you from my favorite Lucasfilm elves.
#ESB40
FACT CHECK: No, George Lucas is NOT returning to write/produce/direct the Cassian Andor series for Disney+. Yes, I'm embarrassed to say I checked into it and bothered actual sources. This has been Friday's edition of Debunking Ridiculous Star Wars Clickbait Rumors. As you were.
Chapter 11 of
@themandalorian
, directed by yours truly ☺️, now streaming on Disney+.
#ThisIsTheWay
✨
p.s. thank you to everyone who stayed up late to watch the episode — I woke up to such sweet messages and it means the world!!
Wow. Wow. Wow.
#TheRiseOfSkywalker
delivers. So much happens in this film it’s hard to get my head around. But it gets this epic ending right. So right. JJ Abrams and team nails it. And gives a whole new appreciation for The Last Jedi in the process. Please avoid sppolers!
Star Wars Project Luminous will finally be revealed Monday evening. What is it exactly? Details will start to emerge around 7 PM Pacific time tomorrow night.
#StarWars
#ProjectLuminous
#MTFBWY
My seven-year-old son just had a playdate with a transgender friend who now identifies as male. I asked if he had any questions about this kid’s journey from female to male. “I forgot about that,” he said. Damn if my faith in the humanity of youth isn’t lifted just a bit tonight.
NEW! Today Disney+ ordered its next animated series from Lucasfilm, “Star Wars: The Bad Batch.” Fresh off of the critically-acclaimed series finale of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” the Disney+ original series will premiere on the streaming service in 2021.
Hello there. Just had a chat with a knowledgeable source who tells me Ewan McGregor remains “100% committed” to the Obi Wan series on Disney+.
So can we finally kill this rumor like Kenobi killed Darth Maul?
(Uh, OK maybe that’s not the best analogy...)
NEW! The Child (AKA Baby Yoda) merch from
@Hasbro
. Even comes with a Sorgan frog and a cup for sipping bone broth! But patience you must have: pre-order now, delivery in May 2020.
#ThisIsTheWay
#TheMandalorian
#BabyYoda
This is the 7.5 inch "talking" plush for $25:
Daisy Ridley tells
@paulafaris
that during filming she gave J.J. Abrams her opinion on the Rey-Kylo relationship, and says “it’s explored in MUCH greater depth,” in
#TheRiseOfSkywalker
. More soon on
@GMA
!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from the big parade in Dublin Ireland.
@HamillHimself
&
@MarilouHamill
braving the cold. (One guy in the crowd shouted: “Use the Force to bring out the Sun!”) Maybe twin suns on this chilly morning...
What is
#ProjectLuminous
? As already announced, it's a PUBLISHING effort to tell a big, interconnected
#StarWars
story. KEY: Don't hold your breath for any movie/TV/game tie-ins. On 2/24 we'll learn about stories, characters, release dates & MOST intriguing: the ERA!🤔
#NoSpoilers
Star Wars
#GalaxysEdge
at
@Disneyland
is an unrivaled VISUAL FEAST for all fans new and old. Here's NEW drone footage showing it off. Lots of news and pictures coming tonight, and be sure to watch
@Ginger_Zee
live on
@gma
tomorrow morning!
@abc
Guys.
@rianjohnson
has made the most epic, emotionally powerful
@starwars
film ever. Hands down. My strong advice is to be very wary of spoilers. The less you know about
#TheLastJedi
, the better. Bravo, bravo, bravo.
The Walt Disney Company-- which of course has a sizable operation in Florida-- tells employees it will pay for employees to travel to obtain an abortion. Here is the letter Disney employees received this morning.
@Newsy
A live-action version of Ahsoka Tano appearing in the second season of The Mandalorian is correct. I'd heard a couple names floated (Dawson was indeed one) but I can't confirm the
@slashfilm
casting scoop. However, I can say Ahsoka will not be played by Ashley Eckstein.
Anyone who thinks today’s Disney CEO news is “sudden” hasn’t been paying attention. Bob Iger has had previous plans to retire. The Fox merger delayed his most recent plan to leave (in June 2019). Also, he’s going to be around for another 22 months...
Ken Nightingall- Pink Shorts Boom Guy to Star Wars fans- has passed away due to COVID-19. His son tells me Ken was at peace and has "gone to the bar in the sky to have a pint and share all the stories of time gone by." I got to share Ken's story last year:
During a lightsaber battle with my six-year old in which I insisted I had severed his left arm, he replied: "'Tis but a scratch!" so home schooling is going well...
Sometimes I'm jealous of the 95% percent of the audience
who will go into theaters to enjoy the fun and awe of a space fantasy movie blissfully unaware of critics and fandom's tribal pettifogging.
Always in motion is the future, but here’s hoping The Child gets a new shiny object to play with. Congrats to the team behind
@themandalorian
for the Emmy noms.
Another tough loss for our
@abc
family. Thea Trachtenberg was a top-notch
@gma
producer catching the most important assignments for 20 years. A huge Star Wars fan,
@HamillHimself
was one of her favorite interviews. This is Thea at Star Wars Celebration (center) in 2015. Damn. 😔
Since
#RogueOne
is trending, here’s a throwback to the presentation John Knoll gave at Star Wars Celebration in 2017 about the Episode IV outtakes ILM used to build new shots for the epic Scarif battle. (My favorite is at the very end. 😂) Plus bonus
@HamillHimself
outtakes.
Changing up the brand a bit this morning and I need your help Twitter fam. (Especially you Marvel fans.) What are your burning questions about the Avengers Campus they’re building at Disney’s California Adventure? @ me!
Huge headaches for
@SouthwestAir
passengers this weekend.
@Newsy
has obtained the internal memo from an executive to employees that offers new details about the "operational disruption" that's resulted in hundreds of canceled flights. I'll have more on Morning Rush @ 7AM ET.
Trailer for Indiana Jones just played in the room. “This one is fantastic,” says a very emotional Harrison Ford. This movie, Ford says, “will kick your ass.”
#D23Expo
#IndianaJones
I’ve been a Star Wars fan from the start. There have ALWAYS been just as many girls right there with us dudes. Today, some of the most impassioned, impressive and badass people in this fandom are women. It feels dumb to even say this but, yeah, Star Wars is for everyone.
Hey Star Wars fans, we’re working on a
@Nightline
story tonight about Peter Mayhew. If you ever took a picture with Peter at a fan convention, and would give us permission to use it on TV and online, please send them my way. Cheers.
The bantha in the room: the
#StarWars
#GalacticStarcruiser
is quite expensive ($4,800 to $6,000 per voyage), and for many fans, it’s out of reach. Here’s how Disney creative execs Wendy Anderson and Ann Morrow Johnson answered when I asked if the experience is “worth it”.
@Newsy
We haven't heard much about Jake Lloyd in a few years. It's been a rough, but now hopeful journey for the former
#StarWars
actor. My latest for
@scrippsnews
.
Jake Lloyd disappeared from the public eye after being cast in the biggest movie franchise in history. In an exclusive interview with
@Clayton_Sandell
, his mother shares his mental health battle, hopes for his future, and what he thinks of
#StarWars
today.
These iconic filmmakers shaped my entire childhood, and to see them all on one stage is a bit surreal and overwhelming. Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, and the great John Williams, conducting live. What a night.
#IndianaJones
Still absorbing everything
#TheRiseOfSkywalker
does to bring this epic saga to an end. It’s bold, sweeping, unexpected. Like all Star Wars, there are things to be heavily debated. It won’t please everyone. But it passed an important test for me: making me feel like a kid again.
Four years ago today was the first “official” start day at Lucasfilm for the great
#TheLastJedi
director
@rianjohnson
(h/t
@PhilSzostak
). Congrats! You can ruin my childhood anytime, pal.
Ewan McGregor is listed as one of a number of special guests at tonight’s
#SoloAStarWarsStory
premiere in Hollywood. Gee, wonder what he’s going to be asked (repeatedly)about...
For “Rogue One”, John Knoll and the
@ILMVFX
team took this unused footage shot 40 years earlier for Star Wars, cutting & pasting actors (except for
@HamillHimself
) into new digital cockpits. Fascinating to see if/how they do similar things with Carrie Fisher’s
#EpisodeIX
scenes.