Will Episode VIII Be Mark Hamill's Last? Possible Spoilers!

Spoiler Alert*

We didn't see or hear a whole heck of a lot of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Force Awakens... Never fear though because they're totally going to make up for that in Star Wars Episode VIII and Episode IX, right? We know from numerous sources that Luke Skywalker will be a fairly major part of the next part of the Star Wars saga, Episode VIII, but now, comments from The Master Jedi himself have cast some doubt on whether or not he'll be in Episode IX at all.

While interviewing Ray Davies at a special event in London over the weekend (via Den of Geek), Hamill told the crowd that "I finish Episode VIII, and then I’m out of work", hinting that Luke Skywalker will not be a part of Episode 9.

You heard it from the horse's mouth... What do you think? Will Episode VIII be Luke's last? Sound off on our Facebook Group.

The Force Awakens made it clear that these new chapters won't shy away from big deaths if it serves the story, and there's no question that Luke's death would hit hard. Of course, that's just one implication of what may yet turn out to be a throwaway comment by Hamill - for all we know he just hasn't got round to signing a new contract yet - so we'll just put this one under wait and see.

Directed by Rian Johnson and starring Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Laura Dern, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Gwendoline Christie, and Benicio del Toro, Star Wars: Episode 8 opens in cinemas on December 15, 2017.

Director Of Rogue One Corrects The Record - What's Different?

In May, reports emerged about reshoots for Disney's first-ever Star Wars spinoff movie, Rogue One, leading some to believe the film was in some way in trouble. Now, director Gareth Edwards has responded, saying the reshoots--which are commonplace in film--were planned from the start.

"I mean, it was always part of the plan to do reshoots. We always knew we were coming back somewhere to do stuff," he told Entertainment Weekly. "We just didn't know what it would be until we started sculpting the film in the edit."

Reports suggested the reshoots were done to "lighten the mood." Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, who is a producer on Rogue One, said the movie's tone and story is not changing.

"There's nothing about the story that's changing, with a few things that we're picking up in additional photography," she explained. "I think that's the most important thing, to reassure fans that it's the movie we intended to make."

Edwards added that he thinks concerns over Rogue One's reshoots were "blown out of proportion a little bit." He's also now increasingly skeptical of the internet.

Shouldn't we all be skeptical of the internet... I always am. Hopefully that puts the rumors to rest. Read the full article from Gamespot here.

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Rogue One is going rogue...

The next movie in the Star Wars canon is going rogue from the classic series in a lot of ways — and not just because it’s called, well, Rogue One. The Disney-backed spinoff is leaving the story of the Skywalker family behind, for starters, instead focusing on a brand-new rebel fighter. It’s depicting events that occur in between the chronology of the original six episodes.

But one of the biggest breaks with tradition, according to Entertainment Weekly, will definitely be the movie’s style. Even the iconicStar Wars opening script crawl, which has been a standard across the trilogies, is still very much up for debate in the new spinoff — and may not make it in.

“The crawl and some of those elements live so specifically within the ‘saga’ films that we are having a lot of discussion about what will define the [stand-alone] Star Wars Stories separate and apart from the saga films,” said Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. “So we’re right in the middle of talking about that.”

I think it should have the crawl. I mean the TV shows, comics, and everything has it. What do you think? Sound off on our Facebook Group. Read full article on Time here.

Star Wars: Battlefront 'Bespin' And More Game Upgrades

Now we can finally carbon freeze our fellow gamers in the lastest round of DLC for Star Wars: Battlefront. Bespin is a beautiful location full of grass, fountains, sculptures and stunning buildings that are in stark contrast to the rampaging AT-AT Walkers and orbital strikes raining down overhead. It is is a very important addition to Star Wars: Battlefront because it brings back the iconic carbon-freezing chamber where Luke and Darth Vader famously fought each and Han Solo was frozen before delivering on of the most iconic lines in the films. This time the graphics capture it better than ever with steam pouring from vents and eerie lighting shining from bellow. Structurally the five new maps in Bespin offer up wide open spaces, which favor snipers down to claustrophobic choke points that become a storm of grenades and laser fire.

There is a decent assortment of new weapons and Star Cards that aren’t game changers but do certainly add something to the game. Getting to play Lando is a lot of fun but he does take a bit more finesse than other characters as he is more a support character where the newly included bounty hunter Dengar is just a damage machine and feels a bit overpowered and it is surprisingly funny. The new game mode Sabotage is fun but not terrible dissimilar to any other capture the point mode, this time you are trying to blow up generators and defend extraction points. You can now play fighter squadron around, above and bellow Cloud City in one of it’s cloud cars and Emperor Palpatine now has his shock troopers replaced with the iconic Imperial Guard. The level cap is now at 70 and there have been a huge number of balance changes. It is is a strong piece of DLC for Star Wars: Battlefront but I betting the Death Star content coming this fall will be the biggest crowd pleaser this year. I give Bespin 8 out of 10.

-From Forbes

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Star Wars Battlefront Single Player mode update: PS4 and Xbox One leak brings a new hope
STAR WARS Battlefront fans have been teased with a new single player mode feature on Xbox One, PS4 and PC for quite sometime and it appears it may have finally surfaced.

While EA have confirmed that a single player mode is definitely on the cards for Battlefront 2, fans have been waiting to find out more on what might arrive for the original title later this year.

When developers DICE revealed their summer content plans for Star War Battlefront, they confirmed that a new single player experience would be part of that.

“We also have a couple of surprises in store that we know our fans have been looking for, especially those who have been clamoring for ways to have more options to enjoy Star Wars Battlefront offline. More to come soon,” an official developer message revealed.

Fans have now found further evidence of what that offline mode might be like.

-From Express