Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
First Look at Last of the Jedi #4: Death on Naboo is up now. Appears to be pretty heavy on the Ferus action.
Meanwhile on the boards, Sue Rostoni said that we should be getting a peek at Aaron Allston’s Legacy of the Force: Betrayal within the next few weeks.
How Stuff Works tackles another object from the galaxy far, far away – The Death Star. (via Metafilter.)
For a more realistic interpretation behind the scenes, check out PC World’s interview with ILM’s Brian Gernand.
Why the ROTS DVD will show up as “Charlotte” on your computer. Thanks to the DVD, rumors are also flying about a digital Yoda replacing the puppet in TPM.
And finally, TFN is reporting that John Hollis, who played Lobot in ESB, passed away last month.
Yes, it really has been 10 years to the day that the club began. I’m once again awed by this group – a decade might not seem like a long time in the scope of Star Wars fandom, but for the internet it’s nothing short of amazing.
Here’s to many more years of Star Wars and related miscellany!
The book will be the product of Gary Troup, a passenger of Oceanic Flight 815 who didn’t survive the crash, but mailed off his book to ABC’s sister company Hyperion Books just days before the flight. The character (via, we assume, a copy of his manuscript or other belongings) will be written into the on-screen story this spring. The real author will be an unnamed “well-known” mystery writer.
According to Variety, the Weinstein’s have picked up a script called “Fan Boys” that follows a group of Star Wars fans in their quest to help their dying friend make it to Skywalker Ranch to see the final film.
Look sir, exclusives! Why does Walmart always get the interesting stuff? Damn you, Walmart!
ETA: TFN reports that the Walmart bonus DVD costs extra – the movie alone is $14.99, while the version bundled with the bonus DVD is $19.99.
Apparently there’s a fan group called the Jedi Chefs. They’ve knighted quite a few “Celebrity Jedi Chefs,” mainly actors from shows like Stargate, Buffy, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica, but no actual Star Wars personalities, as the Unofficial BSG Blog points out.
Perhaps we should send CJ’s own Jedi chef, Qui-Gon Dave, to check them out. Or at least get himself one of those hats.
In an interview with Empire, Hayden Christensen reveals that he’s been cast in the Edie Sedgewick biopic Factory Girl along with Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce. He’ll be playing a character “based on Bob Dylan.”
He’ll also be starring with Christina Ricci and Reese Witherspoon in Penelope, which he describes as” a fable-esque tale, sort of like an Edward Scissorhands-type movie, but for a female who
Adorable computer made in the image of everyone’s favorite astromech.
(I’ve had this in my bookmarks for a few days, but forgot to blog it. Whoops!)
Peter Jackson’s King Kong remake is currently clocking in at 3 hours long, and the extra time has increased the budget by a third – to $207 million. (Two hundred and seven million!) Universal Pictures will be releasing the film at the (for now) full length – no word on how much footage they’ll hold back for the inevitable extended DVD.