and Kit Fisto – confronts Palpatine in his office, only for the Supreme Chancellor to draw a red-bladed Sith lightsaber and battle the Jedi. The film initially had Palpatine wielding a different ...

But several deleted scenes explored this consolidation of power by Chancellor Palpatine even more. One deleted scene even has Palpatine explain to Anakin how he would take direct control of the ...

The Phantom Menace, a veiled figure shadows all galactic happenings, exercising control over political systems and personal destinies.

For example, something that bothers a lot of new fans is: why the hell didn't the Jedi catch Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid ... Side of the Force surrounds the Chancellor," they only acted on their ...

Just like “Andor” hopes to achieve, Tartakovsky’s “Clone Wars” directly leads into one of the movies, here showing how General Grievous kidnapped Chancellor Palpatine from his Coruscant ...

Rachel Reeves is expected to unveil the next steps in the Government’s war on red tape (Yui Mok/PA) Regulators have been summoned to Downing Street on Monday for a meeting with the Chancellor as ...

In “The Empire Strikes Back,” the now-celebrated 1980 sequel, audiences were treated to the first on-camera sighting of Emperor Palpatine. After receiving only a glancing mention in the first ...

“By cutting red tape and creating a more effective system ... and ministers will be instructed to report back to the Chancellor by the summer with further suggestions for quangos that could ...

The chancellor's update on the economy next week is not going to be an emergency budget in its truest sense. But it will be a moment when the sirens flash red. It's not an emergency budget because ...