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Scrapped Star Wars Series Would Have Explored Emperor Palpatine’s Rise to Power

Scrapped Star Wars Series Would Have Explored Emperor Palpatine’s Rise to Power

Before Disney+ transformed Star Wars into a television powerhouse, George Lucas had plans for an ambitious live-action series that would have explored one of the franchise’s darkest stories: the rise of Emperor Palpatine. During a recent appearance at Spacecon 2026, Ian McDiarmid, who portrayed Palpatine throughout the saga, revealed surprising new details about the long-canceled […]

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