[SF/F/H Link Post] Star Wars: The Links Strike Back (Still Spoiler Free!)
Interviews & Profiles
- Carrie Fisher: Comicbook.com | Express | Good Morning America | The Guardian | The Telegraph | Time | Vox | WSJ
- Daisy Ridley: CinemaBlend | Clevver | Collider | DailyMail | Gulf News | Interview Magazine | LA Times | PopSugar | Refinery29 | The Review | THE ROCK FATHER | Telegraph
- Gwendoline Christie: Collider | ComingSoon | Contactmusic | DailyMail | Entertainment Weekly | Hollywood Reporter | HuffPo | Interview Magazine | MarySue | Refinery29 | Variety
- Harrison Ford: BBC | | Fox31 | Junkee | Mashable | RollingStone
- J.J. Abrams: 60 Minutes | AV Club | Entertainment Weekly | Howard Stern Show | IGN | LA Times | Mashable | NJ.com | SlashFilm | VanityFair
- John Boyega: CBR | CNN | CinemaBlend | Fox31 | Good Morning America | Google | GQ | MovieWeb | Yahoo!
- Lawrence Kasdan: Crave | IGN | The Los Angeles Times | VanityFair
- Lupita Nyong’o: ComingSoon | ContactMusic | Elle UK | Entertainment Weekly | Fox31 | The Guardian | The Guardian | Refinery29
- Mark Hamill: Collider | Empire | TheGuardian
- Oscar Isaac: ContactMusic | ET | Fox31 | GQ | MovieFone | TimeOut | Yahoo Movies
Box Office News
- How Star Wars Conquered the Galaxy: The economic power of the franchise.
- Star Wars and the companies who will make billions
- Star Wars Could Break Box Office Records After This News
- Star Wars expectations build, so can it beat Avatar at the box office?
- Star Wars Fans, Awakened by The Force, Turn Out in Droves
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens Must Earn $1.5 Billion to Be Considered a Success and the Burden Terrifies J.J. Abrams
- Star Wars: The meaning, magic and marketing mojo
Beyond the Movies
- The 10 best Star Wars board games, as chosen by GamesRadar.
- The Best Star Wars Board Games Ranked.
- Drinks On Monday Presents: The NPR Dramatization of Star Wars! 13 chapters, one released each weekday from Tuesday, 12/1 to Thursday, 12/17. Available on iTunes.
- Remembering the Dark, Gritty Star Wars TV Show That Never Happened (Yet)
- Star Wars and sports is a match made in a galaxy far, far away.
- Yahoo Tech counts down The Best and Worst Star Wars Video Games.
Articles
- 6 Reasons Star Wars Is So Much Better Than Star Trek.
- 10 of the worst changes to the Star Wars trilogy after their original theatrical release.
- The 13 Craziest Goddamn Rumors About Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- 16 Underappreciated Heroes Who Saved the Galaxy.
- 16 ways Star Wars could have been VERY different
- 23 reasons Star Wars is better than Star Trek or Is it the other way around?
- 74 Things Every Great Star Wars Movie Needs.
- The Best Star Wars References in the History of Rap Music.
- Carrie Fisher Warns Daisy Ridley Not to Let Star Wars Put Her in Any Gold Bikinis.
- Damien Walter on the science fiction that inspired George Lucas’s Star Wars.
- The Daring Genesis of J.J. Abrams’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Disgruntled Star Wars fans threaten ‘spoiler jihad‘: Why they need to just chill out.
- Ewoks are scary, and other lessons I learned from a Star Wars spin-off film.
- In pictures: inside the Force Awakens Stormtrooper dressing room.
- It’s An Awkward Time To Be A Star Wars Fan.
- Kill Your Parents – Why It’s Good That George Lucas Was Kept Away From The New Star Wars Film Trilogy, accord to NME.
- Major Female Villain in The Force Awakens Was Originally a Man.
- My Three-Year-Old Just Wrecked Star Wars for Me.
- Puzzlewood ‘magical’ site for Star Wars filming.
- Rebel Pilots Who Helped Blow Up the First Death Star, Ranked.
- RollingStone picks the 30 Best Star Wars Moments.
- RollingStone picks the 50 Best Star Wars Characters.
- Star Wars & Game of Thrones: Who has the better armor?
- Star Wars Lightsabers, Ranked by Vulture.
- The Star Wars movies, ranked by Entertainment Weekly.
- Stop bashing the Star Wars prequels, they’re simply not that bad.
- Top 10 Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi moments.
- We’re Facing Star Wars Overload, And It Scares the Crap Out Of Me.
- Why didn’t Princess Leia become a Jedi?
- Why I wish I hadn’t sold my Star Wars toys.
- Why Star Wars: The Force Awakens won’t sweep the Oscars.
- You’ll Never Guess the Actor Behind Star Wars Droid BB-8’s Voice.
Science & Technology
- 5 Reasons Star Wars Spaceships Make Absolutely No Sense.
- This astronomer made scientifically accurate Star Wars renderings.
- The Bioethics of Star Wars Spoilers.
- Government Scientists Neither Confirm Nor Deny Star Wars Starkiller Research.
- How the Star Wars Planets Stack Up Against Our Own.
- I Calculated the Mass of a Star Wars Blaster Bolt for You.
- Is It Possible to Build a Lightsaber?
- It’s a Trap: Emperor Palpatine’s Poison Pill by Zachary Feinstein: “In this paper we study the financial repercussions of the destruction of two fully armed and operational moon-sized battle stations (“Death Stars”) in a 4-year period and the dissolution of the galactic government in Star Wars.”
- NASA Thinks C-3PO Might Actually Work in Space. But BB-8? Not So Much.
- The Physics of Star Wars’ BB-8 Bouncing Around the Millennium Falcon.
- Raytheon Pitches New Weapons To Fix Star Wars Military Flaws.
- The Science of Star Wars: From light speed to hyper drives to lightsabers and autonomous robots, Star Wars was certainly way ahead of its time despite occurring a long time ago.
- See the Star Wars Worlds Exoplanet Scientists Can’t Help But Love.
- Three Ways a Starkiller in the New Star Wars Could Work.
- Want to Build a Death Star? NASA Says Use an Asteroid.
- Why Ewoks are the Most Realistic Aliens in Star Wars.
Social Impact
- Apple and Star Wars explain why much of the world around you looks the way it does.
- The folly of Empire: how Star Wars menaced Hollywood.
- How Daisy Ridley & John Boyega are changing Star Wars – and our world.
- How do wookiees breed? the big Star Wars questions answered: We search for science fact in the world’s most popular science fiction.
- How Star Wars and the internet changed movie trailers.
- How Star Wars Helped Create President Reagan.
- How Star Wars‘ Insane Toy Frenzy Changed Movies Forever.
- I Never Wanted to Be Leia: What Han Solo Taught Two Women About Gender and Sexuality: “Yes, Han Solo is a sexy beast. But that doesn’t mean we all have to lust after him. We can be sexy beasts too, if we want.”
- The influence of Star Wars on Apple’s classic design, and vice versa.
- The Kernel remembers The world before Star Wars.
- Meet the First Person Who Realized Star Wars Would Change the World.
Art
- 3D-Printed Robotic Arm Leads The Force In Star Wars Fashion Collection.
- The Art Of 1313, A Star Wars Game We Never Got To Play.
- Fan Art Friday: Star Wars VII The Force Awakens on DeviantArt.
Videos
- A Custom Remote-Controlled R2-D2 Quadcopter That Makes Sounds While Flying.
- Elders React to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
- Fan Builds a Handheld Flamethrower That Looks Like a Real-Life Lightsaber.
- Every On-Screen Death in the Star Wars Prequels.
- How Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith Should Have Ended.
- Lando Calrissian is Mad About Not Being in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
- A Musical Recap of the Original Star Wars Trilogy in Less Than Five Minutes.
- A New Hope Retold Entirely Using Clips From Other Films and TV Shows.
- One Kid Asks All the Questions While Watching Star Wars for the First Time.
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Honest Trailer: The Best Prequel By Default.
- A White Christmas on Hoth, A Mashup of Star Wars and Sinatra’s White Christmas.
All Star Wars two days in a row? Good Gods! That’s a bit excessive.
It took me a minute to realize that the above Articles entry “We’re Facing Star Wars Overload, And It Scares the Crap Out Of Me.” was instead about future movies.