As the video’s narrator says, the prequels weren’t just a tragic tale of a Republic’s collapse. Nor were they about just the personal collapse of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader. “They’re a warning, ...

Thanks to the efforts of one YouTuber, fans can now see Emperor Palpatine from "Star Wars" meet his match against an unlikely ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The moment Darth Vader sacrifices himself to kill Emperor Palpatine and save Luke is undoubtedly a ...

Variety spoke to Emperor Palpatine actor Ian McDiarmid for the Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith re-release. The topic turned to Palpatine’s TV show, where McDiarmid was asked if he was given any details ...

Has Emperor Palpatine ever been able to, ahem, do it? Ian McDiarmid can't say for sure. In an interview commemorating the 20th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, the actor ...

One of the biggest criticisms of the Star Wars sequel trilogy from die-hard fans was the lack of context and world-building--even now we have very little sense of how we got from the end of Return of ...

Clive Revill, a prolific stage and screen actor known to "Star Wars" fans as the original voice of the iconic villain Emperor Palpatine, has died, according to reports. He was 94. The actor's daughter ...

But there was one influence Lucas wasn’t remotely subtle about and that’s how much Palpatine’s rise to Emperor in the prequels was a direct analogy to Hitler’s ascendency in 1930s Germany. But in the ...