Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Well, at least it was. (via)
You do want to vote for the Expanded Universe’s wackiest moment of 2008, right?
He’s prepping a Phantom of the Opera sequel, Love Never Dies. But wait, it gets worse: It’s set on Coney Island.
And while my first thought was that MSNBC got epically trolled, it’s up on Webber’s official site. Chatter is that it’s at least partially based on The Phantom of Manhattan, a book I’m rather grateful that I didn’t know existed until now. (via)
Dave Filoni and Henry Gilroy answer fan questions on The Clone Wars over at TheForce.net. A lot of interesting tidbits on the show, its relation to the EU, George’s involvement and other food for thought, like Gilroy’s comments on the unique challenges of writing a digital show:
It wasn’t really an issue of balance. When I wrote the first episode, I wished I could have used the entire Jedi Council, but because we were just building the studio, the only characters I had available were Anakin, Obi-Wan and Yoda. Mace wasn’t originally in the movie story, because he wasn’t built yet, he was added way later. This was the incredible challenge as the head writer, I was tasked with writing Star Wars and making it feel as big as Star Wars, but only allowed to build ONE new character per episode (I started with 9 — can you name them?). So Luminara and Kit showed up at the very first chance I could put them in the show.
Oh, and there’s also something in there about George and the Wookieepedia. Yes, seriously.
In other interview news, EUC has one with The Force Unleashed’s Sam Witwer, and is taking questions for Matt Stover.
A good number of you probably don’t need me to tell you that Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor will be in stores tomorrow, but so it is. Also, the paperback of the Legacy of the Force finale, Denning’s Invincible.
Comic fans won’t go empty-handed this week, either: Arriving in comic stores on Friday (not Wednesday!) will be The Clone Wars: Crash Course and the Vector conclusion, aka Legacy #31.
Most of this ‘news’ is old news (cancer in, cancer out, cancer in again) but there are a few new clips. (via)
Get out the anti-depressants, folks. The end is nigh.
The Official Site has put up the teaser for Vegas. (Their teasers are always so much better than SciFi’s!) Remember to watch it as you’re recovering from your New Years revelry.
And Robert Picardo comforts us by assuring GateWorld that, in spite of the late notice, the writers have managed to wrap things up well for the series end while still leaving it open for the movie.
At least there’s that. Now…where did I put that bottle….
Has Star Wars become too ridiculous to satirize, or are Adam Sandler movies just crap? Pretty sure I know where I stand. On the plus side, Hardware Wars!
(At the risk of sounding like a South Park episode, second-rate The Simpsons mocked this exact issue with slightly more finesse a few years back. And bonus, it’s shorter.)
There is no Christian Bale fan fiction here. We like him and all, but not that much. ClubJade.net might come up in Google for it (okay, I can’t find it, but I guess someone did) but all our fanfic is old and about the fictional people of Star Wars.
Answerer 3: It’s called Real Person Fiction, and it does indeed exist. There have been some actual fandoms devoted to the stuff. Sorry.
But since you clicked, have a consolation prize.