One of Star Wars' most terrifying villains had plenty of alternate designs, and one of them made it to the big screen.

For decades, Star Wars fans have held one debate close to their lightsaber-loving hearts: who really was the Chosen One?

Emperor Palpatine comes back as the last danger in the sequel trilogy. In an alternative ending, Kylo Ren could continue to be the primary antagonist right up until the end.

Rewatching Revenge of the Sith 20 years later, you notice more than ever Palpatine's deviously masterful gambit to lure Anakin to his personal ruin and Sith baptism-by-fire: a dagger through the ...

By the time it's time to flip the Sith switch in Anakin's brain, McDiarmid relishes in the tragedy of the fall. If "Order 66" could be summed up in a person, it's the way McDiarmid progresses ...

The year is 2005. I'm eagerly awaiting Revenge of the Sith, the Star Wars chapter that completes Anakin Skywalker's journey. I don't know that Episode VII will happen ten years later, so for me ...

2005 was a fantastic year for original Star Wars video games, but Revenge of the Sith's direct adaptation, quirks and all, shouldn't be forgotten. The year is 2005. I'm eagerly awaiting Revenge of ...

Star Wars’ best novelization, by Matthew Stover, has a new deluxe edition coming. It answers a lot of movie questions about Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Mace Windu.

Especially with the 20th anniversary of “Revenge of the Sith,” Christensen has recently been honored in a way he hadn’t been two decades before.

The moral murk of “Revenge of the Sith,” its particular deconstruction of the entire Manichaean, dark vs. light ethos of the “Star Wars” saga, is so much more profound than even in “The ...

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 ...

As 'Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith" turns 20, Ian McDiarmid talks playing the Emperor for four decades and 'Rise of Skywalker' backlash.