Look past the gigantic banner ad, and you’ll find Kevin Smith’s review of Revenge of the Sith. Spoilers upon spoilers upon spoilers, but totally worth the read.
Serenity trailer coming Tuesday
The trailer for “Serenity” will be up Tuesday at the official site.
Joss says:
Now, here’s a word of warning: this trailer ain’t shy. If you’re looking to live totally spoiler-free, know that there’s plenty of key dialogue and images running through this bad boy. It’s pretty tasty, though, and it doesn’t give everything away. But close scrutiny will definitely learn you much of what’s to come. (Anakin TOTALLY goes evil.) It’s a nice piece to while away the time till September, and hopefully should intrigue th’ peeps that don’t have coats of brown.
Anakin’s going evil? That’s not true! That’s impossible! Rumour has it the trailer will be attached to “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
Spread the Word
Karen Traviss, author of Hard Contact, is looking for any information on 501st members with silver Republic Commando armour.
C3 Wrapup
I’m sorry for not blogging the last few days of C3, but.. well. Busy is an understatement, and I’m saying this with a Volunteer badge. Most of the stuff from the EU panels is already out on the internet – I’d give you links now but I find working with touchpads a mild form of torture. When I return to the world of mice tomorrow I’ll get it together. However…
1. George Lucas. Not much new info, but that wasn’t really the point. He confirmed the whole TV show thing for the fifth or sixth time. (Is anyone still surprised?) but now we get details: Clone Wars will get to be a real boy (in 3D) and the live-action series will come about a year after that and be set between ROTS and ANH.
2. Legacy of Force, aka the post-NJO nine book series we’ve all heard about. There’s a metric ton about this on the internet already and I couldn’t possibly remember everything.
3. Timothy Zahn had a panel today – lots of obvious questions, but we did find out that his classic trilogy novel will be set right after ANH, involve both Luke and Mara but NOT together. NO THRAWN, praise the Emperor.
Saw the new footage again. Natalie Portman sure is getting a lot of mileage out of that one expression.
Is there more? Probably. But my brain has turned to mush.
Girls rule and boys drool
We all know where the real power in the GFFA lies…
Friday in a nutshell
Have to get up at the buttcrack of dawn for George Lucas so I’ll make this quick:
1. Rick McCallum was awesome. The footage was awesome. The movie will be 2 hours and 11 minutes. They finished it Tuesday.
2. Star Wars fans still really like trivia.
3. The Rock Bottom Brewery is on the other side of the Hyatt.
4. Fanboys are in favor of cleavage.
Thank you and goodnight.
Depp admits “21 Jump Street” was career highlight
In a startling revelation Johnny Depp has admitted, “Who’m I kidding here? I’ll never top 21 Jump Street and I know it.”
Ha! Made you look!
Dancing Jedi
I don’t know why, but the idea of Ewan McGregor twirling his lightsaber to Norah Jones amuses me.
Celebration 3… so far
Apparently Star Wars fans love trivia, standing in line, the 501st, and talking action figures. Who knew?
C3 is fabulous but insane, and the lines for said action figure are longer than anything I ever saw at Disney World. There’s a rumor going around that someone actually spent $25,000 dollars on C3 merchandise.
I’ve only been able to get to two things so far – an taped Ian McDiarmid interview and the Opening Ceremonies. Guess what – Sidious and Palpatine are the SAME PERSON. Is your world shattered?
Also, Rick McCallum is doing not the two shows he’s scheduled for today, but they announced he’ll be showing the new ROTS footage all day long — seven minutes that we haven’t seen in the trailers or anything else.
But Thursday’s major announcement – that DVD that’s coming with the soundtrack? It’s a retrospective of the music across the saga, chosen by John Williams, and yeah, it’s cut with footage. They showed us the video for ‘Battle of the Hero’s’, which mostly had footage we’ve seen in the trailer with extra bits of duel. And there are 16 of them in total.
And George isn’t even here yet. There was hinting that something big will be coming on Saturday… What the hell is left? Are they actually going to show the movie? ‘Cause I honestly don’t know what they have left to announce. (Well… TV show. Eliz and I had visions of Kevin Smith showing up. Which he may anyway, I suppose.)
And can you imagine people lining up to watch A New Hope in the year 2005? Deet can. She had to work it. Muhahaha!
Don’t panic!
“… not as bad as I had feared… not as good as I had hoped.”
That seems to be the verdict after the world premiere of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
Read the BBC review here. And The Guardian’s review here.
The film opens April 28th in the UK and the 29th in North America.