The folks over at Lightsabre have interviewed one of our favorite people, Lucasfilm’s Mary Franklin. Her Bossk collection is indeed as mighty as can be imagined! And also she made me blush.
Inside the beast
StarWars.com has a brief Q&A with Vanity Fair Contributing Editor Frank DiGiacomo about The Force Unleashed article he penned for the magazine.
In the News: Prosthetics, people and Sidi Driss
- Science! Luke Skywalker lends name to ‘Luke’ prosthetic arm, now ready for clinical trails. (via)
- People: Variety profiles Harrison Ford; The San Francisco Bay Guardian interviews Carrie Fisher, who starts serving up ‘Wishful Drinking’ in Berkeley Friday night.
- RIP: Star Wars Holiday Special producer Dwight Hemion died in January. Aside from the Holiday Special, he had a fair distinguished career, winning 18 Emmys.
- Fail: Ben Stubbs of The Sydney Morning Herald goes to Tunisia, namechecks Star Wars, but rather fails on the facts.
Expanded Universe newsbits
- Sales: Yesterday, The Beat posted Diamond’s top selling graphic novels of 2007. The only Star Wars making the list? Clone Wars Adventures volumes 7 and 8. Huh.
- Upcoming: Vader fans will be happy to know that Del Rey will be releasing a ‘Dark Lord Trilogy’ omnibus (Labyrinth of Evil, Revenge of the Sith, and Dark Lord) in August.
- Fan sites: Lightsabre interviews Han Solo trilogy author A.C. Crispin, while simply by joining the forums at the Rebel Trading Post you get a chance at scoring a free copy of Zahn’s Allegiance.
The fandom minute
- Projects: Back in September, Finkbuilt tinkered up some two-minute dueling sabers. Then, in October, the real thing. Then came the costume boot tops, a Flashsaber, and why am I only finding all this now? It’s good stuff!
- Lists and such: i09 gives The Phantom Menace a hat-tip in their list of Greatest Car Chases In Science Fiction (Part 2), while THX-1138 gets face time in The Scariest Settings Ever Created in Scifi Movies. They also found an inappropriate t-shirt that brings, if nothing else, a cheap, shameful laugh.
- Expanded Universe: Drew Karpyshyn will join EUCantina.net for the EUCast on February 2nd.
When You Wish Upon a Death Star
StarWars.com goes behind the scenes at Disney’s new, expanded Jedi Training Academies, talking to writer/director Mark Renfrow and technical director Marcus Hurst.
The fandom minute
- Ask Metafilter: How do I do a wookie roar with only my voice? I don’t know… Roar casual?
- 501st: UK Garrison visits children at Southampton General Hospital.
- Fan films: Starwarsy.pl interviews Alexandre O. Philippe, the brains behind The People vs. George Lucas.
- Comic: How to decide which Star Wars character you’re most like. (via)
There’s that crazy Dunc-person rambling again
So, um, I have no idea how to link this with anything remotely resembling grace, so let me just say that I did a webmaster interview with Lightsabre, and they posted it today.
As Vector approaches…
Comic Book Resources talks to John Jackson Miller about Vector, Knights of the Old Republic and even Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. (He penned the comic adaption.)
The images in the article are the same ones we saw on the MySpace preview, which also went up as the standard Knights of the Old Republic #25 preview a few days ago.
Whedon Women Kick Butt
So Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles seems to have settled off a bit from its post-NFL game premiere, but what seems to be getting the most attention is the new lady Terminator played by Firefly alum Summer Glau.
Watch with Kristin scored an interview with the Whedon protege the same day that IGN named her TV Babe of the Day. (Nice.)