Star Wars Celebration - live updates: The Phantom Menace 20th anniversary panel
All the action from the convention floor, including first looks at The Rise of Skywalker, The Mandalorian, and Galaxy’s Edge
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Your support makes all the difference.Get ready, Chicago! This weekend sees all manner of creatures, droids, and jedi masters descend upon the city for Star Wars Celebration 2019. It’s the ultimate convention for fans of the franchise: not only can they gather together, revel in the geekery, and flaunt their very best cosplay outfits, but the event will feature a host of special panels – with some teasing major revelations for Star Wars’ future.
Saturday will see two major panels. The Galaxy’s Edge presentation will hopefully offer some initial ride footage from the brand new lands at Disneyland and Disney World. Meanwhile, we’ll get our first details of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a brand new EA game set after the events of Revenge of the Sith.
We’ll be covering all this live from the convention centre itself, so follow the liveblog below to find out the latest news coming out of Star Wars Celebration 2019.
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The experience will be available on Oculus Quest, which will offer you six degrees of freedom, meaning you can move forward, backward, or whichever way you like. The game will also come to the Oculus rift s.
The game is set on Mustafar, Vader's lair, which we got a good look at in Rogue One. We'll learn a little more about its history and its role, plus some revelations about the planet itself. That also means we get to meet the Mustafarians themselves. We've also got writing from David S Goyer, who you might know as a screenwriter on Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy.
Your droid co-pilot ZOE-3 (voiced by Maya Rudolph) is your partner-in-crime on this adventure, which will see you get captured by Vader's forces, where you'll learn he's chosen you for a special task.
Here's the trailer! Goyer is promising an immersive experience that features detailed sound design.
The game will have direct ties to Secret of the Empire, another VR experience created by ILMxLAB, which saw them team up with the Void. That story saw you team up with Cassian Andor and K-2SO to infiltrate Mustafar and steal a powerful weapon.
I'm here for the Creatures, Aliens, and Droids panel hosted by Warwick Davis
Meanwhile, people are still feeling overwhelmed by the trailer for The Rise of Skywalker
According to Neal Scanlan, who did creature effects for all the new Star Wars movies, the very first design for BB-8 was drawn on a napkin by JJ Abrams.
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