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In the non-canonical Star Wars comic book Star Wars: Visionaries, Watto is shown to have been killed by Darth Maul (whose appearance here predates the canonical revelation of his survival of the events of The Phantom Menace) during Maul's process of tracking down his nemesis Obi-Wan Kenobi, to gain vengeance for his defeat during the Battle of ...
In terms of the series' internal chronology, the Skywalkers first appeared in the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.In this film, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn discovers Shmi Skywalker and her son Anakin as slaves on the planet Tatooine.
A Bib Fortuna toy was released in 1993 as part of the Star Wars Bend-Ems line by JusToys, a collection of rubber figures that could be easily bent and twisted. [131] In 1996, Bib Fortuna was one of the Star Wars characters to receive its own Micro Machines mini-transforming playsets by Galoob. The toy line included miniature versions of the ...
The 41-year-old star says he once took a meeting with George Lucas about the coveted Star Wars role, but ultimately chose to pass on the project. Why Leonardo DiCaprio passed on playing Anakin ...
It's hard to imagine Star Wars' Anakin Skywalker as anyone other than Hayden Christensen, but according to Charlie Hunnam, he almost wielded the lightsaber of the franchise's iconic character ...
The site's critical consensus reads, "Burdened by exposition and populated with stock characters, The Phantom Menace gets the Star Wars prequels off to a bumpy—albeit visually dazzling—start." [186] As of September 2023, the film is the second lowest-rated live-action film of the Star Wars series just ahead of The Rise of Skywalker. [187]
One of our favorite "Star Wars" films happens to be "Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace," in which we meet young Anakin Skywalker.
The first film of the prequel trilogy, The Phantom Menace (1999), takes place 32 years before Star Wars. [68] Anakin is a nine-year-old slave living on Tatooine with his mother Shmi. [69] He is a gifted pilot and mechanic, and has built his own protocol droid, C-3PO.