Star Wars' reveal of Emperor Palpatine's return is seen as one of the franchise's worst decisions. And yet at the time, it ...

Luthen struggles with his role as an Imperial following the fall of the Republic. The cause he’s dedicating his life to is going down a path he can’t follow, so he has a crisis of faith. During a ...

Ian McDiarmid has defended his controversial return as Emperor Palpatine (a.k.a. Darth Sidious) in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. McDiarmid reprised his role even after Palpatine was seemingly ...

When George Lucas created the Star Wars saga, it was a combination of many things. It has elements of Westerns, Arthurian legend, fairy tales, Samurai films, Flash Gordon serials, Frank Herbert’s Dune ...