Fall bring another European convention – Reunion II, in France, organized by the Official French Star Wars Fan Club. Highlights will include a saga marathon and store.
Dark Horse forgoing Celebration Europe
Looks like comic presence will be slim to none in London this summer, due to the proximity of the mammoth San Deigo Comic Con. Hopefully some individual artists and writers will be able to make it over the pond.
Do you know your place in the galaxy?
Neil Baker, aka the StarWars.com blogger nob01, is putting together a fan documentary called A Place in the Galaxy on the Star Wars blogging community. He’s recently launched a site for the project, and will be at CIV with camera in hand. In his own words:
The theme for the film is how communities grow and nurture their family members.
A Place in the Galaxy is a documentary examining the phenomenon of Star Wars and the nature of the fan community that has built up around it. The film will partly focus on the blogging and fan site community, and will investigate the relationships between fans, their common dreams, their personal stories and how the Star Wars saga has impacted their lives.
Star Wars People Tidbits
Quite a few tidbits about Star Wars people in the news:
Keira Knightley (Sabe) is about ready to give up acting. Millions of fanboys flock to counseling for support.
Masi Oka, a former ILM-er, almost did the same thing before a gig on a little show called Heroes came along.
Natalie Portman (Padme Amidala) is apparently going in the opposite direction by playing two roles in her upcoming film Goya’s Ghosts.
Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) didn’t seem to care much. She just enjoyed having lunch with hairy creatures and robots.
And someone who might be a bit too busy to do any acting for a while is Keisha Castle-Hughes (Queen Apailana), who gave birth to a little girl on April 25th.
CIV: Only 22 days to go!
Buy art, you will. The last of the Celebration artists went up tonight: Kilian Plunkett, Adam Hughes, Randy Martinez and more!
Robot Chicken panel. Seth Green, Matt Senreich and some of their Robot Chicken crew will be on hand for (at least) two panels.
In other news, a copy of Making of Star Wars signed by George Lucas is up for auction by the Books for Kids Foundation.
George and Conan and ILM
Just aired here on the east coast – we can only hope the interview portion of the night will be online at NBC soon enough. (His visit to the Presidio is already there, and of course a behind the scenes video has been up at StarWars.com for most of the day.
UPDATE: Interview is on Youtube.
Robot Chicken, the trailer
Palpatine throwing a hissy? Admiral Ackbar, cereal spokesman? Obi-Wan Kenobi, nutkicker? The innate dignity of Star Wars is forever ruined!
CIV: ILM rock stars
The Legacy Revealed revealed
The History Channel special, all official-like. Now with Stephen Colbert!
History loads up on Lucas
In addition to Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed, the History Channel acquired a series of 94 never-before-seen documentaries based on the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. They will premiere on History.com later this year.