Rey was the main hero of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, but the franchise just explored the opposite possibility, revealing ...

There are few villains more iconic than Emperor Palpatine. Across all three Star Wars trilogies (not to mention spin-off media and video games) he's an omnipresent threat; cackling, manipulative ...

This makes it one of the most important cut scenes of the entire saga. The entire story of Palpatine’s rise, and the fight against it, showed just how much George Lucas was a student of history.

There's a lot weighing on Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, not only as the final installment in the new Star Wars trilogy, but as the last film in the Skywalker Saga, a series that ballooned ...

Now we know how Emperor Palpatine managed to come back from being burned to death in the fiery heart of a planet-killing superweapon. Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where ...

His voice can be heard for only a minute in “The Empire Strikes Back,” but it provided the first draft of a character that ...

While the First Order continues to ravage the galaxy, Rey finalizes her training as a Jedi. But danger suddenly rises from the ashes as the evil Emperor Palpatine mysteriously returns from the dead.

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 ...

Clive Revill, the actor who originally voiced Emperor Palpatine in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back," has died. He was 94.

As the video’s narrator says, the prequels weren’t just a tragic tale of a Republic’s collapse. Nor were they about just the personal collapse of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader.

Clive Revill, a prolific stage and screen actor known to "Star Wars" fans as the original voice of the iconic villain Emperor Palpatine, has died, according to reports. He was 94. The actor's ...