Star War's Poe Dameron's backstory to be told in upcoming YA book

Cover art for 'Poe Dameron: Free Fall' (Alice X. Zhang/Disney Publishing)

We've gotten a glimpse of Poe Dameron's past in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but an upcoming young adult novel will explore more of his backstory. Polygon confirms that a Poe-centric book will be released on August 4. Called Star Wars: Poe Dameron: Free Fall, the novel will be written by Alex Segura of the Peter Fernandez mystery series. The book will also feature cover art from Alice X. Zhang.

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'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' will be back for its final season on Feb. 21st on Disney+

Lucasfilm has confirmed that the seventh and final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be coming exclusively to Disney+ on February 21. The animated series focuses on the conflict that happens between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. The 12-episode season will focus on three story arcs, and it will have the return of Darth Maul. 

Disney's 'The Mandalorian' gets animated sticker pack for iMessage

Do you love The Mandalorian? If you have an iPhone, you can express your love for the Star Wars series through cute, animated stickers on iMessage. For $1.99, you can get a pack with 23 stickers that include the titular bounty hunter, the adorable The Child (or Baby Yoda as the internet lovingly calls the creature), Cara Dune, to name a few. It features some of the iconic moments of the Disney+ show. To make sure the animated stickers move, you'll need to have iOS 10 or higher installed. Otherwise, the stickers will appear as static images.  

The Mandalorian is scheduled to come back for season 2 exclusively on Disney's streaming service sometime this fall. 

Disney gives a dying fan and his family an early screening of 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'

Magician Sean Boon shares photo from the special screening

One Star Wars fan got to see the upcoming final film to the Star Wars saga. Disney CEO Robert Iger confirmed on Twitter that a British man with a terminal illness got to see Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker a few weeks ahead of its premiere. Rowans Hospice, in Hampshire, England, shared an image of a Disney representative who brought the film. The organization takes care of patients with life-limiting illnesses. Not much is known about the patient because he did not wish to be identified. But the whole thing started when Rowans Hospice employee Lisa Davies saw a Star Wars tattoo on the man's leg.

The patient saw the film with his two sons, wife, and two brothers. All of them had to sign a non-disclosure agreement before watching the movie on an iPad.

Source: CNET