Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Last night’s Lost was entirely kickass. And not just because it was the first after a hiatus.
Good news for us fans: the season finale will be two hours long! It’s going up against the finale of American Idol, but what self-respecting geek watches that over hyped karaoke contest? (And if you do, don’t tell me.)
Ready to wear out your credit cards come midnight tomorrow?
Don’t head out for Midnight Madness without Rebelscum’s toy checklist (PDF file) and TFN’s list of books.
Carrie Fisher’s Star Wars memoirs aren’t an IMDB pipe dream after all – Entertainment Weekly reveals that the source is an interview Fisher did with the UK’s Sunday Telegraph. You can read the entire interview (registration required) or just stick with the EW version for the pertinent Star Wars info.
Last Saturday night’s triumphant return of Dr Who was such a ratings boom that the BBC has already commissioned a second series (Brit-speak for season).
Woo-Who!
Trooper TK-7602, a Rebel Legion member on Livejournal, has the scoop on what exactly was going on in Times Square yesterday. And the Legion themselves have a photo gallery of the event.
George himself talks the TV show in Hyperspace book excerpt – will it be a cartoon? Recent word from Lucasfilm hints that there may be more than one TV project, but it’s nice to have some confirmations that cartoons are still in the running.
The finalists for the 2005 Official Star Wars Fan Films are up at atom films. Voting ends on April 5th.
Even M&Ms have a trailer. And they’ve put an X-Wing in Times Square, of all places.
Being -1.7 years old at the release of A New Hope, and considering Star Wars as ‘boy stuff’ during my childhood, I never really got the whole action figure thing. But for those of you with memories of 1977 may enjoy this ‘exact replica’ of the classic Star Wars “Empty Box.”
This is from IMDB, so accuracy should not be assumed. Still, if it’s true, could be fascinating, so I’ll take the chance. Since IMDB news items have a habit of disappearing after a day or so, here’s the item in full:
Actress-turned-novelist Carrie Fisher is set to expose the secrets of the original Star Wars films in a behind-the-scenes expose of the classic sci-fi trilogy. Fisher, 48, kept a diary during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when she played Princess Leia Organa opposite Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill. She explains, “My publisher has told me not to talk about it… oh what the hell. When I was in Star Wars, I kept diaries. Big books full of what went on, what I thought, what I did. I am going to write them all up as a narrative. It will be riveting. Once I get started, that is. I’m months behind already.”