{"id":74956,"date":"2024-02-10T23:37:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T23:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-will-hit-theaters-again-in-may\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T23:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T23:37:51","slug":"star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-will-hit-theaters-again-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/10\/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-will-hit-theaters-again-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace will hit theaters again in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Pod races, trade negotiations, and Darth Maul will be on the big screen once more when <em>Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace<\/em> comes back to theaters on May 3rd, 2024. The return is meant to celebrate the 1999 movie\u2019s 25th anniversary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/star-wars-phantom-menace-25th-anniversary-cinema-release-confirmed-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports <em>Empire<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">The return to theaters comes during a renaissance for this part of the long-running franchise. In the last few years, Disney has given the prequel era the nod with series like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23902876\/ahsoka-finale-review-star-wars-disney-plus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ahsoka<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23178299\/obi-wan-kenobi-season-1-review-disney-plus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/1\/22\/24047179\/heres-the-trailer-for-star-wars-the-bad-batchs-third-and-final-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Bad Batch<\/em><\/a>. Hayden Christensen, who played Anakin Skywalker in the second and third movies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/hayden-christensen-star-wars-prequels-trilogy-movies-held-up-well-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told <em>Empire<\/em> in an interview<\/a> that his experience with <em>Star Wars<\/em> has been \u201ca very heartwarming one,\u201d and that the response to them today \u201cfeels like vindication for the work we did.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Disney and Lucasfilm hired poster artist Matt Furgeson to create a new poster for the films, too. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/2\/10\/24068931\/star-wars-phantom-menace-theater-showings-25th-anniversary-may\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pod races, trade negotiations, and Darth Maul will be on the big screen once more when Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace comes back to theaters on May 3rd, 2024. The return is meant to celebrate the 1999 movie\u2019s 25th anniversary, reports Empire. The return to theaters comes during a renaissance for this part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}