Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Literary agent Colleen Lindsay was submitted a Star Trek novel. Her advice:
Do not EVER – under any circumstances – send an agent a query for a novel based on someone else’s characters or world. Just don’t.
As for this poor, ignorant person, I give them 1.5 Jareos.
For more on the subject, I refer you to several of our own professonals: Rodger McBride Allen, Karen Traviss, and Abel G. Peña. You might also want to check out Keith R.A. DeCandido’s post on the difference between profic and fanfic.
New picture of Asajj Ventress from USA Today. Oh, and one thing I missed in yesterday’s L.A. Times article:
…and voice actors, including Samuel L. Jackson, reprising his Mace Windu character, and Anthony Daniels as the familiar voice of C-3P0.
Whoops. You win again, apathy! Err, TFN.
/Film shows off the four new Indiana Jones television ads and reports on how Spielberg has sought to keep the action scenes for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in a more old-fashioned style, without lots of quick-paced cuts (a la Bourne). Only a day before, /Film highlighted two new Indy TV ads, and discusses “creative differences” between Harrison Ford and George Lucas.
Meanwhile, CNN reports on the buzz from nearly everyone about Indiana Jones IV – the stars and some random imdb commenters. Canada.com compares the Indy films to being a cross between Zorro and Scrooge McDuck – ah nostalgia!
Harrison Ford and Bruce Willis tie for being Greatest Ever Action Heroes.
Look for the theatrical trailer to (officially) debut at 7:58 p.m on Thursday, May 8 – on not one, but five networks: Cartoon Network, TNT, TBS, CNN, and Boomerang. And to hold you over, StarWars.com has a new poster.
The Los Angeles Times talks to George Lucas – am old-same old about The Clone Wars and stuff past the movies:
“There really isn’t any story to tell there,” the filmmaker said. “It’s been covered in the books and video games and comic books, which are things I think are incredibly creative but that I don’t really have anything to do with other than being the person who built the sandbox they’re playing in.”
In the non-film versions of the saga, for instance, Han Solo and Princess Leia marry and have three children, one of them named Anakin after his notorious grandfather. All of it has been popular with core fans, but Lucas doesn’t see any upside to extending the tale past the leafy luau on Endor where Vader’s corpse was torched.
“I get asked all the time, ‘What happens after “Return of the Jedi”?,’ and there really is no answer for that,” he said. “The movies were the story of Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker, and when Luke saves the galaxy and redeems his father, that’s where that story ends.”
Dear media: WE KNOW. (We just don’t care.*) You can’t think of anything else to ask George Lucas? Come on!
Anyway, despite this, they do attempt a quick guide to the expanded universe – four out of nine selections actually extend past (or forward) the movies. (Bonus: They source Wookieepedia)
* Well, I don’t care. No doubt someone will object. Or gloat. ;)
1920’s Star Wars by Becky Dreistadt, penciler over at Combustible Orange. She doesn’t have any other Star Wars work on DA, but her gallery is more than worth a look.
Timely!
Bonnie reports on last weekend’s Maker Faire – lots of Star Wars and Indiana Jones – over at the starwars.com blog. Above, Adam Savage’s (Mythbusters) replica Grail diary. (Click on the photo for more pics.)