This 148-page souvenir edition pulls together some of the very best features from Star Wars Insider magazine, including features about the making of Star Wars: The Mandalorian; an interview with C-3PO himself, Anthony Daniels; and a look at the action figures that fired up the imagination of many a child – and many a collector. Plus much, much more!
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Star Wars Insider 2022 Souvenir Edition
MAKING THE MANDALORIAN JON FAVREAU & DAVE FILONI • With a second season already in production, Star Wars Insider talks to Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni on working together to bring The Mandalorian to fans around the world.
THE MANDALORIAN Pedro Pascal The Mysterious Gunslinger • Who is the Mandalorian? If you’ve not yet caught the new live-action Star Wars television series, then all we can tell you is that the actor who plays the mysterious bounty hunter is Pedro Pascal. Insider caught up with Pascal shortly before the series premiered on Disney+, where a sense of mystery was all part of the fun.
GARY KURTZ THE SPARK THAT LIT THE FIRE • Without the input and tenacity of Gary Kurtz, producer of Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980), it’s quite possible the movie landscape of today would be very different—and Star Wars merely a footnote in the annals of film history. Before his sad passing in 2018, Insider spoke with the award-winning producer, director, and production manager to discover just what it took to get a certain unnamed space-fantasy project off the ground.
KURTZ’S CAREER
INTERVIEW: GARY KURTZ
WORKING WITH WAMPAS
Soldiers the Empire POLICING THE WORLDS OF SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY • INTRODUCING THE NEW SPECIALIZED STORMTROOPER UNITS OF SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY, AND THE UNRULY NEW PLANETS THEY PATROL.
NEW PLANETS, NEW PERILS! • REMEMBER WHEN HAN AND CHEWIE TEAMED UP WITH A RABBIT AND A PORCUPINE IN A WILD WEST-STYLE GANG? NO? WELL, AS THE WRITER OF STAR WARS ’ FIRST SPIN-OFF ADVENTURES IN 1977, COMICS STALWART ROY THOMAS ISN’T ABOUT TO FORGET!
ROY THOMAS, COMIC AVENGER
THE LOST EGGS OF LIVORNO
ANTHONY DANIELS DID YOU HEAR THAT? • From the first line of dialogue heard in a Star Wars movie through to the The Rise of Skywalker, Anthony Daniels has more than inhabited the golden shell of protocol droid C-3PO. In part one of our exclusive two-part interview, Daniels reveals how he came to write his new Star Wars memoir, I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story.
INTERVIEW: ANTHONY DANIELS
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN JACKET • Anthony Daniels has been a part of Star Wars Celebration since the very first event in Denver, Colorado in 1999.
SITH UNSEEN A RETROSPECTIVE • Collectibles, merchandise, and all kinds of licensed products have been a part of Star Wars since the very beginning, and are naturally must-buys for hardcore fans and collectors alike. But often these supplements to the main feature films offer more than simply tie-in entertainment. Insider examines how novels, games, and comics expanded Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith beyond the confines of its onscreen story.
STAR WARS: GENERAL GRIEVOUS
STAR WARS: REPUBLIC COMMANDO
LABYRINTH OF EVIL
REVENGE OF THE SITH – MOVIE NOVELIZATION
REVENGE OF THE SITH – THE VIDEO GAME
DARK LORD: THE RISE OF DARTH VADER
AHSOKA LIVES! • Ashley Eckstein talks exclusively to Insider about returning to the role of Ahsoka Tano in the seventh and final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-14, 2020) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Plus, she reveals the quote that has become her personal motto.
A VOICE IN THE DARK • Ashley Eckstein on her experience of reprising the role of Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker:
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