I’ve been too busy for random surfing, but SF Signal to the rescue – they found three (well, four – but we already linked the subwoofer) great Star Wars diversions yesterday: Everything Star Wars, the top 15 Han Solo quotes you need to use in regular conversation, and learn to speak Ewok. Though why anyone would feel the need to talk to Ewoks is mystery to me.
CIV: Belly dancing, Ben Burtt, WOTC, droids
Slave Leias are always a hit, so it’s not surprising that LFL persuaded Amira Sa’id, the belly dancing slave Leia, to perform and teach at Celebration.
14 days to go!
- Ben Burtt to talk sound.
- WOTC seminars on Miniatures and the new RPG.
- 501st Droid Hunt mini-site launches
Pop-up Star Wars
Coming in October, Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy by Matthew Reinhart. Reinhart will be on hand at Celebration with a “Art of the Popup” presentation and some time in the Family room.
For the fan historians in the crowd
John Jackson Miller reports that the latest issue of comic ‘zine Alter Ego has an article from writer Roy Thomas on the origins of Marvel’s Star Wars comics.
Is George making films for TV?
Probably not – even TFN is calling shenanigans on this one.
Hagrid and Wicket rollin’ with the cheese
Warwick Davis and Robbie Coltrane attend ‘cheese’-rolling activities in Stilton. While there, Davis revealed he’ll have a part in Prince Caspian.
Where’d we put him again?
Let’s file this one under the “you’ve got to be kidding” topic.
They’ve lost Scotty!
The capsule carrying James Doohan’s ashes (along with those of 200 other people) disappeared into an area with steep canyons and mountains after it completed its flight. They can’t pick up the homing beacon, as a result.
Thousands of years from now, some archaeologist is going to be very confused by that thing….
Wednesday LULZ
Stradley takes on Clone Wars
In a MySpace entry on writing comics, Randy Stradley of Dark Horse reveals that he’s scripted an episode of the animated Clone Wars series.
By way of contrast, last year I had the opportunity to write an episode of Lucas Animation’s upcoming Clone Wars TV series. It was an interesting experience, and it came with a substantially better pay day than a comparable amount of work in comics. I wrote an outline (based on a synopsis provided to me), then rewrote the outline based on notes received from the producer, director, and head writer. Once that was approved, I wrote a script. Again, after a round of notes, I rewrote the script. At that point, my involvement with the script ended, but based on various production concerns (the expense in animating certain sequences, or changes in direction of the series as a whole made after my participation), my script was rewritten by other writers a number of times. I’m told that there is still one scene in the episode that is more or less as I wrote it.
Now, based on what I’ve seen of the show, I doubt very much that I will be disappointed with the quality of “my” episode (heck, I’m sure it will make me look better than I deserve), but I can’t deny that there’s a part of me that wishes I had more control. In comics, I would.
Stradley’s blog as a whole has a lot of interesting insight on comics and writings. Check it out!