With The Last Jedi, the middle chapter in the third (and maybe final?) Skywalker-centric Star Wars trilogy, writer-director Rian Johnson enlivened the canon of George Lucas’s far, far away galaxy with ...

There’s plenty of moving pieces on the Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker chessboard right now, but we can’t afford to ignore a potential key player: Maz Kanata. The former space pirate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lupita Nyong'o brings Maz Kanata to life in Star Wars bonus clip Lupita Nyong’o is all eyes portraying the thousand-year-old space ...

For her appearance in Episode IX, the alien character was brought to life on set using an actual animatronic puppet much like the Porgs and Babu Frik, and designed by Creature And Special Make-Up ...

If you’ve seen The Rise of Skywalker, you might have noticed something slightly different about the character of Maz Kanata. The diminutive alien was a performance capture CGI creation originally; ...

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Maz Kanata is introduced in The Force Awakens as a kindred spirit of Han Solo — someone who lives in a sort of moral grey area, with friends in all corners of the galaxy. In fact, it's Han Solo who ...

We spent so much of our time speculating about what was going to happen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens that we had no idea what we were going to talk about once the movie actually came out. Luckily ...