Wait... Is George Lucas Returning to Star Wars? | No Film School

It's hard to believe that Star Wars started just as an idea George Lucas had that a studio took a chance on. Now it's one of the most lucrative franchises of all time. Lucas has remained busy after stepping away from Star Wars and letting Disney run things.

But according to IMDB and some news outlets, he's coming back... at least on the small screen.

Lucas will be returning to Star Wars with Andor. This is all hearsay, but on the show's IMDb page it says Lucas is responsible for two episodes and some characters in the show.

While this could be phony, it's interesting that it made it onto the site. At the very least, this might be a spoiler that some of the original trilogy's characters will be appearing within the show.

Andor is a prequel series that takes place before Rogue One and covers the escapades of rebel spies trying to stop the Empire. The lead spy is Cassian Andor, played by Diego Luna. As of right now, Andor is slated for 12 episodes, but we'll have to wait and see if that's what officially happens.

All we know is Stellan Skarsgard, Adria Arjona, and Denise Gough have all been cast in unnamed roles. Additionally, Genevieve O’Reilly will reprise her role as Mon Mothma.

Are you excited about the possibility of Lucas returning to his creation, even if only for a few episodes? I know he was heavily involved in The Clone Wars show, and that turned out fantastic.

Let us know your opinions in the comments.

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Celebrate the love and hope at the center of Nolan's space epic in the format it was meant to be seen.

If we know anything about Christopher Nolan, he likes to go big. Nolan started with smaller-scale stories (as many of us do) with early noir adjacent works like Following, Memento, and Insomnia, then started going and staying big with his illusionist drama The Prestige. Since then, the scale has been various degrees of massive, with the biggest scope in his time-and-space sprawling epic, Interstellar.

While Interstellarmight not be everyone's favorite Nolan outing, there's no denying it's an impressive feat of filmmaking and his most emotional—if watching Matthew McConaughey's Cooper desperately try to reach his family through quantum space-time doesn't make you cry at least a little bit, what's going on, dude?

With Interstellar'sIMAX release, it's a great time to shed some tears in a public setting in one of the most prestigious film formats around. As we mentioned in our film gauge piece, Nolan loves shooting on film and utilizes 65mm intentionally to provoke a tone of massive scale. In that regard, Interstellar was made for 70mm IMAX. That goes without saying, dawg. That being said, other factors make Interstellar a perfect movie to revisit in theaters while you can.

Let's break down the release further below.

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