He may have have been trained as a Sith, but Palpatine was actually a heretic - and these ten facts prove it. The Sith ...

"Somehow, Palpatine returned" is arguably the most infamous line in the "Star Wars" franchise, but does it actually make ...

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 ...

Variety spoke to Emperor Palpatine actor Ian McDiarmid for the Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith re-release. The topic turned to Palpatine’s TV show, where McDiarmid was asked if he was given any details ...

The Star Wars sequel trilogy deliberately positioned Kylo Ren as something different, something new; a dark Jedi, despite the ...

But there was one influence Lucas wasn’t remotely subtle about and that’s how much Palpatine’s rise to Emperor in the prequels was a direct analogy to Hitler’s ascendency in 1930s Germany. But in the ...

Warwick Davis hosted the 20th anniversary panel, which included appearances by prequel design director Doug Chiang, sound ...

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Ian McDiarmid “thought [he’d] gone too much too far” during his Palpatine vs Mace Windu duel in ‘Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith’. The 80-year-old actor - who has portrayed Emperor ...

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