Our own Darth Dre alerted us to this nice collection of Original Trilogy behind the scenes production photos uploaded by Peter Mayhew..

This is NOT from an official source, but it purports to show a deleted scene of Jar Jar Binks falling to his death.  While the scene appears to be post-production complete, this is likely some wishful editing of a different legitimate deleted scene.  We all know Jar Jar is heavily involved in the plot after this, so a death scene this soon in the movie makes no sense.

The weekly release of teaser trailers on the official LucasFilm YouTube channel had the web anticipating a teaser trailer for Episode VII today.  Instead, the counter resets because the newly posted video is for the theatrical re-release(?) trailer of Star Wars.

My favorite part was Stormtroopers on ice.

A laser disc containing behind the scenes footage of Return of the Jedi has been uncovered.  If you click through to the article, there are links to Facebook videos of a few of the scenes including a clip of Yoda sounding more like Fozzie Bear.

As expected, the Revenge of the Jedi teaser trailer has been released by the official Lucas Film YouTube channel. What will the 30th hold in store?!?

Mashable brings an exclusive look at some rare behind the scenes footage of the famous rope swing across the Death Star chasm.

Last week the official LucasFilm YouTube channel released the original Star Wars (A New Hope) teaser trailer.  Today, exactly one week later,  they have released the Empire Strikes Back teaser trailer.  Sure seems like they are building towards something.  We have to assume the Episode VI trailer comes next Wednesday and then….Episode VII on the 30th?!?

Their motivations remain unknown, but the timing has some speculating what it could mean.  The official Lucas Film channel on YouTube posted this teaser trailer for Episode IV on the eve of New York Comic Con.  The why behind this is unknown.  It was introduced via the Lucas Film twitter account prompting readers to “Check out the trailer that started it all!”

Just as the buzz circulating is that movie goers are growing tired of origin stories and one recent flop was supposedly lampooning origin stories, the word coming out of Disney is that the Star Wars spin off movies starting in 2016 will be origin stories.

If you are a Star Wars historian at heart, you will not want to miss this 1978 Boba Fett screen test showing the prototype armor we’ve all come to love recently.

The site io9.com comments on the book Star Wars Storyboards which shows…well…storyboards that reveal what may have been a darker and less terrible Prequel Trilogy.  Bear in mind that the Prequel Trilogy still would have been terrible, just slightly less so. Some gems include a younger mowhawk bedecked Qui-Gon and Darth Maul borrowing a page from Loki.

If you follow Marvel comics at all, you’re surely familiar with the highly popular Merc with a Mouth otherwise known as Deadpool.  Our own Darth Dre alerts us to this page in which good old Wade give us a commentary on the Prequel trilogy in classic Deadpool style. When you click through, be sure to click on the full sized image link.

Starting with Episode VII, Star Wars will dominate movie theaters every summer starting in 2015. This doesn’t mean Episode VIII is coming out in 2016, they’re still taking 2-3 years for the saga sequels. But filling in between will be the standalone films.

This isn’t exactly news, as it was pretty much assumed until Disney and LFL officially announced it at Cinemacon in Las Vegas.

Bloomberg Businessweek provides a fascinating breakdown of LFL purchase by Disney including some interesting revelations such as exactly when Michael Arndt was secured to pen the script for Episode VII as well as when Fisher and Ford signed on (the signing of Fisher being the worst kept secret in the history of entertainment).