10 Things You Need To Know About The Star Wars Spin-Off Movies

9. The Yoda Rumour Is Just A Rumour

When the spin-offs were first announced, the characters immediately brought up as likely candidates for their own solo outing were the main series stars with minimal backstory. Leading the pack was Yoda, Muppet Jedi Master-cum-CGI acrobat, whose pre-movie history can summed up as "If you keep asking Lucasfilm lawyers will issue a Cease & Desist letter." Aside from a vague hashing of his apprentice days in a pre-Phantom Menace magazine article (so probably non-canon), nothing has been made known of his antics before training Count Dooku a few decades before the Prequels. So of course the plan to produce a Yoda spin-off makes sense. Except, despite the reams of Internet copy speculating it, there's no official word to back it up. Trace the Yoda rumours back and you end up at one article on Ain't It Cool News that muses, without source, that Lucasfilm want to have a movie focused on the backwards speaking Jedi Master. That's it. There's no quoting of an industry insider and the whole thing comes across as fan wish born from the excitement of more Star Wars. Not having a Yoda spin-off is far from a bad thing. He's a character made intriguing in part by the mystery (that's the entire point of the character in The Empire Strikes Back) and, given he spent 800 of his 900 years training Jedi, the pay-off wouldn't be that exciting anyway. Nobody really wants a feature-length version of the youngling training scene from Attack Of The Clones.