Star Wars Escape Pod

Today we're recapping DAY 3 of Celebration Japan 2025!

During the closing ceremonies of Star Wars Celebration Japan, it was announced that Star Wars Celebration will return to California in 2027, ta…

Today we're recapping DAY 2 of Celebration Japan 2025!

Today's Star Wars news includes exciting updates across the galaxy: the cast of Andor is teasing the upcoming Season 2 which will delve deeper i…

Today we're recapping DAY 1 of Celebration Japan 2025!

Star Wars Celebration Japan featured several key reveals, headlined by the announcement of Shawn Levy's new film, Star Wars: Starfighter, starri…

Star Wars Celebration is just around the corner, and the hyperspace lanes are buzzing with pre-event news! The hype is reaching critical levels, so join your Escape Pod co-hosts as we blast through t…

Darian joins Josh for a small chat about the upcoming animated anthology series "Tales of the Underworld" which will see the return of Cad Bane and Asajj Ventress as thier respective bounty hunting r…

James Mangold is making a Dawn of the Jedi movie, an era only seen in the Dark Horse Comics age of star wars stories. Today we dive deep into Vol 1 of Tales of the Jedi, talk about the narrative and …

This week we dive into a tough topic for most, Banking.. in Star Wars. It's not the most exciting topic, and sure it can even anger fans who never appreciated the lore about the prequels. But it's re…

Today we look at 5 fantastic kurosawa inspirations that play a big part into star wars. Revenge of the Sith turns 20 years old and is blasting back onto the big screen later in April! And finally the…

In a recent interview, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy addressed key topics surrounding the future of Star Wars. For clarity and accuracy, we've compiled the essential details directly from the …

Hey Star Wars listeners! We've got a treat for you this week. Iain Kay's back for another book review, and this time, we're talking about John Jackson Miller's 'The Living Force,' which just dropped …

This week we roll back the clock to 2002 when Bounty Hunter released on PS2 and Gamecube! Join Josh, Blake, and Darian for this retro-review that we played through again on the "remastered" edition o…

We talk a lot about Boba and Jango Fett this week, for the Fett Fans out there, this one might be for you!
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This week Josh and Blake sit down with special guests Marco and Andy from Transmute Pictures to talk about Bucketheads Part 3, the long awaited continuation of the Bucketheads fan film series!

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Star Wars Lightspeed! Our news and headlines in roughly 15 minutes for this week. We got a bunch of stuff you'll just want to hear about, things like all the latest from the MARVEL STAR WARS lines as…

Dive headfirst into this week's Skeleton Crew episode with Josh, Blake, Dan, and Kyle!  Only two weeks left of our Skeleton Crew aftershow.  We wish you a fantastic New Year!  Look for our 2025 previ…

This is the 2024 Star Wars Escape Pod Holiday Party podcast! We got all sorts of fun this week from Ultimate Trivia you can answer along at home with, Skeleton Crew episode 5 discussion, 2024 in revi…

This week is Skeleton Crew episode 4! And with it is a deep dive into what these Jewels of the Republic might mean. We listen to some recordings of Dave Filoni from the behind the scenes on the Ahsok…