Palpatine's return in "The Rise of Skywalker" could have gone better, but details across the Star Wars saga reveal that his ...

Star Wars wheeling out Sheev Palpatine for The Rise of Skywalker was received with all the enthusiasm of a droid convention at the Mos Eisley cantina. And while the basic idea of Palpatine's survival ...

Before the three films that explored one of the darkest turns in Star Wars history, the original trilogy hinted at an epic history—a lost golden age of the Republic—and a devastating fallout that ...

Palpatine is a strange figure in Star Wars. We know his wizened face from the original and sequel trilogies, but in the prequels, we’re reminded that he was once just a minor Naboo royal who was ...

Palpatine’s death in Return of the Jedi had clearly cost him dearly. The Sith Eternal had essentially found a cheat code when they resurrected the Emperor on Exegol, but the resurrected Emperor was ...

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Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, returning to theaters on April 25th for a one-week engagement, revealed Emperor Palpatine’s (Ian McDiarmid) machinations coming to fruition, a ...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker remains a divisive movie, with Emperor Palpatine's shocking resurrection not quite the epic moment that Lucasfilm and filmmaker J.J. Abrams likely hoped it would be.