There’s now less than one full year until the next Star Wars movie hits theaters around the world, but the franchise has plenty to offer fans in 2025. For the first time since The Rise of Skywalker in ...

In a recently resurfaced September 2021 interview with Metro, McDiarmid suggested that it’s possible he could reappear as Palpatine in literally any Star Wars installment set before his demise in The ...

Emperor Palpatine may have claimed "unlimited power" and cheated death in Star Wars, but he was wise enough to fear some of his greatest opponents. As a politician, ...

One of Star Wars’ longest-tenured stars has just pulled back the curtain on a project that never made it to fruition. Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) recently sat down for an interview with Variety ...

The Star Wars prequels are a Death Star with a discourse-powered tractor beam still pulling in deliriously impassioned takes all these years later. Love them or hate them, either you do. There is no ...

Darth Vader was a monster long before he blew up Alderaan, and it’s proven in Charles Soule’s Marvel Comics story.

If it's been a while since you've seen Star Wars Episodes I-VI (or you've never seen them — it's okay, we won't tell anyone), you might be fuzzy on how big a role Palpatine played over the course of ...

Rey, the main character of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, is an orphan who's able to use the Force without training. Based on her natural abilities, for years fan theories have speculated that she must ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. In a surprising twist, Ian McDiarmid’s Star Wars character, ...

Before “he was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died,” there was “somehow, Palpatine returned.” “A lot of people said it was ridiculous,” he told Empire. “Of ...

Everyone knows that Emperor Palpatine is a scary guy. He’s got the Force lightning, he has total control of the most powerful Empire in the galaxy, and he’s a conniving two-faced weasel. But his most ...