Star Wars Weekly Buzz: Rogue One Gets 11 Nominations for the Saturn Awards, New Guests Announced for Celebration Orlando and More

This week on the Weekly Buzz: Del Rey has just revealed 3 different variations of the cover of Timothy Zahn’s novel Thrawn; Rogue One: A Star Wars Story gets 11 Saturn Awards nominations; Peter Mayhew, Daniel Logan and Ray Park has been announced as autographed guests for Celebration Orlando; Hishe has uploaded their latest video about How Rogue One Should Have Ended and more.

 

 

The official Star Wars Celebration site, announced a few more important guests for the highly anticipated event, taking place in April.

 

 

 

 
Rogue One may not have won any Oscars, but the awards season is not over yet. The first Star Wars spin-off movie got 11 nominations at this year’s Saturn Awards.

 

 

 

 

 

Del Rey has just revealed that the upcoming novel by Timothy Zahn “Thrawn” will have not one, not two but three variations of its cover:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The popular YouTube series “How it Should Have Ended” has just posted their latest video dedicated to Rogue One. Check it out:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s a very well done modern trailer for The Empire Strikes Back that is pretty awesome, using music from Rogue One’s trailer:

 

 

 

 

Some exciting Star Wars games news will be revealed at Celebration Orlando this year. Make sure to tune in.

 

 

 

 

 

The official Star Wars site has updated their Databank page with some cool additions. Make sure to explore it.

 

 

 

 

 

Also StarWars.com shared several informative tweets about the galaxy far, far away. Make sure to click the links on the tweets for the full story:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conan posted the full interview with Diego Luna, who shares a bottle of mezcal with Conan and discusses Mexican representation in Hollywood.

 

 

 

 

 

Chuck Wendig’s final chapter of the Aftermath trilogy is performing really well, not surprising to anyone.

 

 

 

 

 

Some cool Star Wars art featured in the latest issue of Star Wars Insider.

 

 

 

 

 

And another really fantastic art for the upcoming 40th anniversary of Star Wars.

 

 


 

 

 

 

Lucasfilm has recently registered a new trademark name, most likely for one of their upcoming Star Wars mobile games – Rivals.

 

 

 

 

 

Yet another article dedicated to the creation of K-2SO.

 

 

 

 

 

Did you catch all these Easter eggs from the last episode of Star Wars Rebels?

 

 

 

 

 

Rogue One is about to reach its end at the US box office run.

 

 

 

 

Some coverage from this year’s Oscars and the Star Wars representation there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any fans of Biggs Darklighter?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stay tuned for more next week.

 

 

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5 thoughts on “Star Wars Weekly Buzz: Rogue One Gets 11 Nominations for the Saturn Awards, New Guests Announced for Celebration Orlando and More

  • March 3, 2017 at 8:44 pm
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    I am so glad Empire’s End is on NYT Besteller list. Now, let’s make Thrawn no.1.

  • March 3, 2017 at 9:41 pm
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    I like the dark covered Thrawn cover the best, The white one looks too heroic and the middle cover looks like he’s making his sexy time face.

  • March 4, 2017 at 3:34 am
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    Congrats on RO getting those Saturn nominations; RO may not have won oscars but it’s nice that the film is still getting praise. ^_^

  • March 5, 2017 at 3:51 am
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    I’m gonna have to get that B&N edition!!

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