Star Wars' reveal of Emperor Palpatine's return is seen as one of the franchise's worst decisions. And yet at the time, it ...

Ian McDiarmid has now been playing Emperor Palpatine for 42 years. First, it was as the mysterious big bad of the original Star Wars trilogy, and then as a Senator who rises to the ultimate position ...

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'sdecision to resurrect Palpatine was certainly controversial, but it did help to explain one bizarre aspect of Palpatine's plan for Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.

When the first teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker dropped earlier this year, it left fans with a whole lot of questions. First and foremost: was that really the voice of ...

The trailer for 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' completes the nine-episode journey with a tease of Emperor Palpatine. By Richard Newby “No one’s ever really gone.” Lucasfilm continued Star Wars ...

The film opens with Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and Rey (Daisy Ridley) separately learning of the return of Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), who has somehow remained alive years after seemingly being ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. J.J. Abrams and his wonderfully misguided collaborators nevertheless achieved that regrettable feat not by introducing a new ...