As The Rise of Skywalker prepares for its fifth anniversary, an equally important and far sillier anniversary is already here. Reading time 4 minutes Five years ago, the dead spoke this past weekend.

Emperor Palpatine star Ian McDiarmid revealed a cancelled live-action show’s existence during a panel at Spacecon 2026, and the series would have followed Palpatine’s rise and rule (via Popverse).

In the vast universe of role recasts in cinema, one stands out as both the most overlooked and the greatest of all. The iconic villain of the Skywalker Saga, Emperor Palpatine, famously played by Ian ...

At the end of her memorable speech to the Senate in the ninth episode of Andor’s second season, Mon Mothma dares invoke the big bad behind the curtain. “And the monster screaming the loudest?” she ...

A brand-new teaser for the upcoming Star WarsTV Show Maul: Shadow Lordkicks off with the voice of Emperor Palpatine himself, but that may not mean what you think. However, after Maul's apparent death ...

In Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Emperor Palpatine rose from the dead when we learned that he had spent decades in a frail clone body plotting his return to power. Ultimately bested by Rey and Ben ...