Star Wars Celebration - live updates: The Phantom Menace 20th anniversary panel

All the action from the convention floor, including first looks at The Rise of Skywalker, The Mandalorian, and Galaxy’s Edge

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Get ready, Chicago! This weekend sees all manner of creatures, droids, and jedi masters descend upon the city for Star Wars Celebration 2019. It’s the ultimate convention for fans of the franchise: not only can they gather together, revel in the geekery, and flaunt their very best cosplay outfits, but the event will feature a host of special panels – with some teasing major revelations for Star Wars’ future.

Saturday will see two major panels. The Galaxy’s Edge presentation will hopefully offer some initial ride footage from the brand new lands at Disneyland and Disney World. Meanwhile, we’ll get our first details of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a brand new EA game set after the events of Revenge of the Sith.

We’ll be covering all this live from the convention centre itself, so follow the liveblog below to find out the latest news coming out of Star Wars Celebration 2019.

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Key Points

• The first trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was shown to Celebration audiences 
• The Disney Parks's biggest expansion yet, Galaxy's Edge, will be the ultimate immersive experience for Star Wars fans 
• First footage of The Mandalorian. set to stream on Disney+, debuts

[15 April 2019 17:42 · clarisse.loughrey]

Ray Park, who played Darth Maul, said his theme for the character was The Prodigy's "Firestarter". 

[15 April 2019 17:48 · clarisse.loughrey]

George Lucas told McDiarmid, at the end of filming Return of the Jedi, that we'd never see the Emperor again. McDiarmid then added: "And I guess that's how it'll remain."