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Sunday, 26 July 2026

EPISODE VII: THE HAN SOLO LEGACY!

"I didn't really like Han Solo at all." So said Harrison Ford in an American press interview during the mid 2000's. But we don't care about that. We'll always enjoy the actor in his first greatest screen role on and off from 1977 to 2019 and captured here in all his smuggling hero glory via this terrific character celebratory art from Joe Corroney.

Tuesday, 28 October 2025

'THE FORCE AWAKENS' AT 10: BETRAYING A BIRTHRIGHT!

A birthright to evil, as personified by Kylo Ren, General Hux and Captain Plasma, striking new villains for the sequel universe's first adventure.

Manipulated during a time of emotional weakness and instability during his early Jedi training by Supreme Leader Snoke, ruler of the eventual scourge that is the First Order, young and impressionable Ben Solo, saddled with prior feelings of abandonment by his parents Leia Organa and Han Solo, has now become the bitter and twisted, all-power in the Force craving figure of the masked murderer Kylo Ren, determined to wipe out the Jedi, and his former master Luke Skywalker, at all costs, as played with ferocity, anger and twisted villainy within The Force Awakens by the well-cast Adam Driver, an acclaimed actor who has now pretty much worked with all the great Hollywood and international directors out there, and accumulating a fine and diverse body of work beyond his great contribution to the sequel Star Wars franchise, playing a character indelibly linked to the slaying of his onscreen father, Han Solo..

Promotional merchandise art poster by Joe Corroney showcasing Kylo Ren and the First Order for Episode VII.

Ren is determined to follow in the dark and powerful footsteps of his late grandfather, Darth Vader, within the Force. Art by Brian Rood,

With the discovery of the Force-latent powers of the mysterious Rey, Ren is determined to use her in finding Luke Skywalker. But her power in the Force is growing...

Behind the scenes on the memorable moment.

Thursday, 24 August 2023

EPISODE VIII: THE LUKE SKYWALKER LEGACY!

Another great piece of art to enjoy from the ever-popular Joe Corroney, and this time an epic showcase of the eternal icon Luke Skywalker, as played by Mark Hamill, as seen across the entire movie cycle of the Original and Sequel Trilogies up to The Last Jedi.

Sunday, 20 August 2023

EPISODE VII: TIME FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER...

New characters who'd swiftly capture the hearts and imaginations of old and new Star Wars fans with their debut in 2015, the ever-popular Joe Corroney captures Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, BB-8 and Kylo Ren's saga 'essences' in this great artwork linked to the excellent first teaser trailer to The Force Awakens.

Saturday, 18 December 2021

ROGUE ONE: THE BRINGERS OF DEATH!

The elite Imperial Death Troopers deliver their brutal, no-prisoners sensibility to any battle they are dropped into, and especially making a murderous impression against our Rebel Alliance heroes during the epic ground conflict finale to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Great marketing/merchandising art linked to the movie by acclaimed talent Joe Corroney.

Celebrating five years of the film, STARWARS.COM has a special interview with director Gareth Edwards:

https://www.starwars.com/news/gareth-edwards-rogue-one-interview

Sunday, 10 January 2021

ROGUE ONE: COMETH THE EMISSARY!

Great promotional and merchandising art showcasing the ultimate saga villain, Darth Vader, for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, by Joe Corroney. In the originally filmed version of the movie, before the reshoots, Vader's role in the story was a deliberately minimalist one- an ominous. shadowy figure for several sequences, having been sent as an emissary by the Emperor to oversee the final stages of the Death Star's completion originally above Scarif (when it was a construction base rather than a communications/vault facility - a task that the Dark Lord assumed but was not interested in, considering the space station's destructive abilities insignificant compared to the true power of the Force (a belief he also shared in A New Hope), and despite the tyrannical ambitions and boasting of a power-demonstrative Orson Krennic, a brief moment of their conversation of which would be seen in an early movie trailer in 2016. In this deleted Death Star sequence, Vader would be physically portrayed by actor/muscle man Spencer Wilding, with vocal recording being done, also unused, featuring James Earl Jones.

https://starwarsaficionado.blogspot.com/2017/03/rogue-one-darth-vaders-lost-scenes.html

Monday, 27 July 2020

ROGUE ONE: THE FIRST REBELS!

An unlikley band of heroes, led by a young woman whose formidable spirit, courage under fire, and bonds of family loyalty inspires them on a daring mission against the Empire, beyond anything attempted previously by the fledgling Rebel Alliance. They are the heroes, they are the beating dramatic heart, of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, as captured in this great commercial sale art by Joe Corroney.

Wednesday, 20 December 2017

CARRIE FISHER: REMEMBERING 'ROYALTY' - PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE...

To us, she will always be royalty. Art by Joe Corroney.

BEWARE: SPOILERS!

Next week (the 27th December, 2017) sees the first year of our Star Wars life without Carrie Fisher's incredible presence, and her tragic passing still feels like a raw and very open wound for all of us emotionally. Thankfully, we have her terrific performance as General Leia Organa in The Last Jedi to savour, and we can enjoy Leia/Fisher's legacy for years, decades, to come- their work not just to be enjoyed by the current generations of fans, but by the many more generations who will watch it on Blu-ray, HD, streaming, VR, or on TV screens- and be equally smitten, influenced and enthused by a character and actress so formidably fused together and integral to the franchise's success and legacy.

There are no plans to have a CGI version of Fisher/Leia with the upcoming EPISODE IX, despite the character's ultimately successful youthful CGI appearance pre-EP IV in Rogue One, a scenario approved of by Carrie Fisher, which happened amidst still continuing controversial debate about the use of CGI likenesses in Hollywood - especially those of film star icons no longer with us, of which Miss Fisher had only just passed away with Rogue's release- a tragic situation that then added further fuel to the fire in the war against CGI which Lucasfilm and ILM were caught up in. Yes, Leia can now be effectively written out of the saga with the way that writer/director Rian Johnson has forged the ending of The Last Jedi- indeed, she can be elsewhere when the final battle between the Resistance and the First Order plays out, but I think that it's unfair to fans of Leia, fans of Carrie, and fans of the Classic Trilogy in general, to end it that way full stop- that Leia will not have a part to play somewhere, even if briefly, in ending the First Order with the Resistance she so so vitally set-up to fight it.

I can't believe that the brilliant technicians at ILM can't find outtake filming footage from the past two Star Wars films and put her in IX somewhere (even if on a viewscreen to talk to the other Resistance heroes, for one last important moment and/or farewell scene). With so much recorded talk with Carrie over the years, the idea that sound design talents like Matthew Wood and his team can't get some dialogue together, alongside mild CGI lip movement superimposition, seems crazy in this kind of film-making technological age that George Lucas and STAR WARS helped revolutionize. The work done by Sony to put the late Paul Walker into the seventh The Fast and the Furious film proved nothing short of brilliant. I can't believe that Lucasfilm/Disney can't do the same for one final cameo appearance for Leia/Fisher.

STAR WARS AFICIONADO asks Disney, Kathleen Kennedy, and J.J. Abrams to reconsider their decision of not having Leia in the sequel trilogy finale, so as to give the character and Miss Fisher's contribution a more unique and special final send-off to fans. One that will end the Skywalker family plotline more efficiently whilst also being even more emotionally satisfying for 2019.