Emperor Palpatine has been a constant throughout all of Star Wars, but one film in particular gave him the greatest quote in ...

After all these years, Emperor Palpatine remains Star Wars' most iconic villain, yet the franchise's new main antagonist ...

One of Star Wars’ longest-tenured stars has just pulled back the curtain on a project that never made it to fruition. Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) recently sat down for an interview with Variety ...

The Star Wars prequels are a Death Star with a discourse-powered tractor beam still pulling in deliriously impassioned takes all these years later. Love them or hate them, either you do. There is no ...

In a recently resurfaced September 2021 interview with Metro, McDiarmid suggested that it’s possible he could reappear as Palpatine in literally any Star Wars installment set before his demise in The ...

Rey, the main character of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, is an orphan who's able to use the Force without training. Based on her natural abilities, for years fan theories have speculated that she must ...

Back in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader put aside his allegiance to Emperor Palpatine and briefly became Anakin Skywalker once again in order to save his son Luke from certain death. That ...

If it's been a while since you've seen Star Wars Episodes I-VI (or you've never seen them — it's okay, we won't tell anyone), you might be fuzzy on how big a role Palpatine played over the course of ...

The first teaser for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, aka Star Wars: Episode IX, ends with a familiar evil laugh that comes from one of the most notorious intergalactic villains ever: Emperor ...

A cackle in the dark. That was all it took for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to deliver its biggest shock—a shock that not even a title, a Death Star, or a host of other reveals in its first ...

Before “he was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died,” there was “somehow, Palpatine returned.” “A lot of people said it was ridiculous,” he told Empire. “Of ...

The nine episodes of Star Wars tell the tale of the Skywalker clan and their dance with destiny, starting with Anakin, ending with Ben Solo, and finally, revitalized with Rey. But The Rise of ...