10 Movie & TV Spoilers We Didn't Know Last Week (4th Sept)

4. Yet More Star Wars Rumours

There are rumours, and then there are anti-rumours, like the kind that refute the notion that Domnhall Gleeson's character will be Luke Skywalker's son. The word on the street is that Luke has been in some kind of prison (possibly of the space variety) for almost the entire time between Return of the Jedi and now, so he couldn't have fathered any children - unless it was a co-ed prison and the warden was pretty liberal about what kind of activities his charges could get up to. Another rumour suggests that Andy Serkis will be playing the Emperor, but that's just downright silly, right? We're more inclined to believe the Palpatine-related whisperings from Latino Review that state the Inquisitors - a new group of Sith Lords - will be the major villains of at least the first film. That might take some serious retconning after the prequel trilogy's insistence that there are only ever a master and a padawan...