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They include (but are not limited to): your age when you first encountered them, how good their outfit is, how quick they are with a quip, where they place on the spectrum of saint to scoundrel (and your feelings about that position). Behind the scenes with photographer Art Streiber and Ethan Hawke joins Ben Travis for a chat aboutPodcast. It’s far from an easy decision but, when Samuel L. Jackson at Smashbox Studios in Los Angeles. for the Empire First Reformed we asked you to make that call for our poll, you rose to the task admirably. AndA this month, we’re excited to reveal the results. Who’s the top twin: Luke or Leia? Who’s master of the Jedi: Yoda or Obi-Wan (or Mace Windu)? And can Rey and the new crop challenge the Original Trilogy’s icons? The answers to all these questions (and others — how high is Jar Jar?) are inside. Outside of that, we go on set of whatw we feel/hope will be this year’s most deranged horror, The Nun; talk to Idris Elba about his directorial debut; bring you world exclusive first looks at Alita: Battle Angel, Creed II and BumblebeeB ; and share the latest news on the film this year I’m probably most excited about, Bad Times At The El RoyaleR . You’ll want to stay a while. Maybe even for the night. Beast stars Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn out with Terri White at Old Street Studios. hanging Olly Richards interviews Sorcha Groundsell in Haggerston, East London. TERRI WHITE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @terri_white SUBSCRIBE TO This month’s subscriber cover‚ created exclusively for Empire by illustrator Jacey. American Yardie director Idris Elba gets Chris Lupton in Chris Hewitt and Nick de Semlyen bookend TURN TO PAGE 54 FOR DETAILS ON a headlock at the Ham Yard Hotel in Soho. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE Animals star Barry Keoghan and director Bart Layton. Illustration: David Mahoney 4 SEPTEMBER 2018 THE 50 GREATEST STAR 57 WARS CHARACTERS Your choice of Star Wars’ greatest characters, from Ree-Yees to Angry Fanboy Tweeting Rian Johnson At 3am. 58 HAN SOLO A celebration of the roguish smuggler played by Alden Ehrenreich in Solo: A Star Wars Story, and some ancient geezer in a bunch of really old films. MACE WINDU 84 The inspirational story of how Samuel L. Jackson said he’d quite like to be in a Star Wars movie and then wound Con Air up in a Star Wars movie. NB: this only works if you are Samuel L. Jackson. Subs: “This place was THE EMPIRE INTERVIEW Jaws 92 Actor. DJ. Believer in better. And now a writer and director. Behold Idris Elba, the coolest (and busiest) man alive. THE NUN 100 The inside scoop on how director Corin Hardy plans to scare us all to death with his demon nun movie. Clue: he has a demon nun. THE NAKED GUN 106 “It’s that same old story: boy finds girl, boy loses girl, men make movie about clueless cop, movie becomes timeless classic, men talk to Empire about it, girl dies in blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day.” “Good year?” “No, the worst.” Clockwise from top: Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope; Alita: Battle Angel; Ghost ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL BLACKKKLANSMAN THE VIEWING GUIDE Stories; Cold War; 10 James Cameron produces. Robert 36 Spike Lee rolls his best joint in years. 112 Ghost Stories, the Brit horror that The Nun. Rodriguez directs. Audiences win. could only be scarier with a demon nun. THE NEGOTIATOR CREED II 38 A Jon Hamm thriller, not to be STEVEN SODERBERGH 14 The second Creed movie that is confused with the Samuel L. Jackson 134 On sex, lies, and videotape 25 years also the eighth Rocky movie: it’s all thriller. That had no Hamm, just cheese. later. 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