Showing posts with label CRIMSON DAWN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CRIMSON DAWN. Show all posts

Friday, 17 July 2026

'SOLO': LUXURY EVIL!


Looking like a dagger slashing its way through space, the First Light, the luxury craft/mobile command vessel of Crimson Dawn's top lieutenant, Dryden Vos, makes its way to a further criminal enterprise, in this intriguing shot of the vessel never seen in Solo: A Star Wars Story back in 2019.


Saturday, 24 June 2023

'SOLO': THE FEMALE FACTOR!


The definition of a survivor, having endured such prior bad luck and hardship in her early life amongst the slave scavengers of Corellia, the resourceful Qi'Ra, as of the end of Solo: A Star Wars Story, was seen becoming one of the most powerful crime bosses in the galaxy via the Crimson Dawn cartel. And that makes her more dangerous and unpredictable than ever, despite her deep affection for former lover, Han Solo...

Acclaimed author E.K. Johnston, adept at developing popular Star Wars franchise heroines within all-new canon-related adventures, looks set to deliver another acclaimed winner with her take on Qi'ra, as Crimson Climb comes to Disney Books (US hardback) later in the year (October 2023)...


Rise to power, rise to control...


Saturday, 6 July 2019

'SOLO': A BOND FORMED FROM FEAR!

Once a part of Crimson Dawn, you're unlikely to escape its grip ever after.

Having been acquired for service to the Crimson Dawn criminal organisation spread throughout the galaxy, Qi'ra's special relationship with Dryden Vos is a combination of fear, servitude and trust (of sorts), but never anything of a true equal footing, especially with Vos's violent underlying nature.


Despite Qi'ra's clear to see uneasy but loyal relationship to her 'employer', Joel Schreiber's junior novel for Solo: A Star Wars Story has Darth Maul later intriguingly reveal to our flawed heroine that Vos considered Qi'ra his greatest trained disciple of Crimson Dawn, and most likely the only individual in his ranks physically capable of taking him down, which, of course, she ultimately would!



Tuesday, 23 October 2018

'SOLO': THE FUTURE OF CRIMSON DAWN!

Their destinies now fully intertwined- Qi'ra and Maul, in this great fan composition.

It was quite the surprise on original release, wasn't it?! The shocking yet intriguing return of Ray Park as an older but no less bloodthirsty (former Darth) Maul (voiced by his regular TV animated voice man in Sam Witwer), back from the dead a la the established The Clone Wars series timeline events, and now a continued part of the Anthology/Prequel era. Though it's hugely unlikely that there will be any more young Han Solo sequels, there is every reason to believe that both Crimson Dawn leaders Qi'ra and her Dark Side employer will return somewhere in a future film or live-action TV series, hopefully in the projects being conceived by David's Benioff and Weiss...


More on Maul's return:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-solos-most-shocking-star-wars-cameo-happened/1100-6459200/

Expanded Universe connections:
https://www.starwars.com/news/how-darth-maul-son-of-dathomir-connects-to-solo-a-star-wars-story


A different point of view:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/solo-darth-maul-cameo-undermined-qi-ra-character-arc-1117058?utm_source=twitter

Ray Park returns:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lukethompson/2018/09/07/darth-maul-robot-legs-revealed-solo-a-star-wars-story-stills-ray-park-clone-wars-rebels-phantom-menace-sam-witwer-blu-ray-4k-dvd-the-last-jedi-ron-howard/#2282bf7719c3


Sam Witwer on Maul's return:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdRgY2gtxgk

Saturday, 6 October 2018

'SOLO': WHEN FATE LEADS TO OPPORTUNITY!


The stakes have never been higher for either herself or Han Solo, as Qi'ra goes into battle against her former sadistic criminal employer Dryden Vos in the main audience chamber of his cruiser- her practice and use of ancient weapons soon brought to the fore in this great crowd-pleasing scene from Solo: A Star Wars Story, and one which I'm sure actress Emilia Clarke, looking very cool as Qi'ra, thoroughly enjoyed training for.

This superb image is part of many new released images from the film that can be purchased over at the STAR WARS Authentics site: https://www.starwarsauthentics.com/

Tuesday, 31 July 2018

'SOLO': SURPRISE ATTACK!


On Savareen, Dryden Vos's private army of Hylobon get the shock of their lives when they come under attack from the 'real' forces led by mortal enemy Enfys Nest, in this great behind the scenes image for Solo: A Star Wars Story, filmed in the Canary Islands.

Wednesday, 30 May 2018

'SOLO': NO TURNING BACK...


SPOILER ALERT!

Trust no one! Words to live by for the former scrum rat Qi'ra, after being separated from her young boyfriend Han Solo on Corellia, to face an ever harsher and punishing life ahead over the next three years, before their eventual, co-incidental reuniting. Ultimately, though, even the charms and admirable strength of Han's reckless personality and his enduring love for Qi'ra can't make or persuade her to abandon the old life she has endured, and erase her notorious past for a new journey that will surely prove just as precarious, if not more so. And especially not now that there's a wide hole in the leadership powerbase of the criminal organisation Crimson Dawn- a hole which she helped see-in with the death of her former employer, the harsh Dryden Vos. And a galactic power base that she can finally seize for herself...

Here's hoping that Emilia Clarke's unique 'femme fatale' of conflicted emotions returns for a future Star Wars film somewhere down the line, perhaps in the darker flavoured Benioff/Weiss film trilogy beginning its planning stages next year.



Qi'ra makes her first appearance in animated form for the new Forces of Destiny short:
https://www.starwars.com/news/5-highlights-from-star-wars-forces-of-destiny-triplecross