Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
TV Guide interviews Michael Shanks who talks about his and his wife’s upcoming roles in Eureka, the Stargate movies and keeping fingers crossed on Christopher Judge‘s new series, Rage of Angels, that has been given the “verbal go-ahead” from MGM.
(Of amusing note to the shipper population, the article accidentally refers to Michael’s Stargate character as Daniel Carter.)
Apparently Kevin Smith’s quest to be the busiest man in geekdom has fallen apart.
SyFy Portal reports that the director was unable to make his schedule sync with the show’s production schedule.
Now who’s going to stick up for the contractors in the fleet?
The Wookiee and several of his costumed friends presented NASA officials with the Skywalker lightsaber today at Oakland International Airport. The lightsaber will be met in Houston by the R2-D2, the 501st and a police escort who will accompany it to NASA
Variety reports that George Lucas has hired John Ridley to write Red Tails. The film is about WWII’s Tuskegee Airmen and has often been mentioned as a future project by Lucas.
Rick McCallum is also on board as co-producer with Charles Floyd Johnson.
Sleepy Padme by Ruby Chan, because we’ve been a bit lacking in the cute department lately. She also has a second Padme in her gallery, Yellow Queen.
The official press release about Volume One of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones has a breakdown of the 12 disc set – it covers 7 episodes and 38 companion documentaries, with interviews with all sorts of people providing insight into the historical context of the show.
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Heroes Season 2 is rapidly approaching. NBC launched a teaser site yesterday for the Japanese-influenced storyline with the first in a series of mockumentaries on Takezo Kinsei; the sword master whose story will be a major plot in this new season.
Narration provided by Gimli, himself, John Rhys-Davies.
A stand-up comic at Jabba’s Palace? There’s no way that could end well. Some language. (via James)
No comics, but today does see the release of Troy Denning’s Inferno, the sixth book in the Legacy of the Force series.