Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
More on George Lucas’ AFI Lifetime Achievement Award from USA Today and E! Online. Don’t forget you can see it yourself on June 20th.
The fandom, of course, is going nuts over this tidbit:
Ford was approached by Daniel Logan, 18, who played young Boba Fett in Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Lucas said Logan’s character may be included in his live-action Star Wars TV series, which is in the works.
I remain perplexed, but better Fett than nobody!
Tiny adorable comic strips at the i <3th darth adventure. Cute and evil, two great tastes that taste great together.
And it’s Brett Ratner. Who? He did Rush Hour. Did anyone here actually see Rush Hour? Anyone?
Yeah. That’s hopeful. There’s an interview over at MTV, if you’re curious:
Ratner insists that the “X-Men 3” script is up to snuff, that production will commence in Vancouver, British Columbia, in eight weeks, and that series stars Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, James Marsden and Rebecca Romijn will return. As for what he’ll add to the successful Singer recipe, the director said, “I want to stay true to the franchise and true to the characters, but I think it’s elevated … I don’t want to be pompous and say I’m going to take it to the next level. I think the script that Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn wrote gives me a tremendous amount of confidence.”
He also said you can expect his X-Men to have an enhanced sense of humor. “Not jokes for the sake of jokes,” Ratner added, “jokes that come from character humor, that come from characters and that come from the situations.”
He also reveals that Singer left not because of the lure of Superman, but because he didn’t like the script.
The news bombs are dropping fast now, and the Movie Blog has some tidbits.
But really, we’ll just have to wait and see. Bad cynic.
Other superhero film news shamelessly culled from The Movie Blog:
– Batman Begins reviews coming in.
– Producers of Smallville visit set of Singer’s Superman.
– J. Michael Straczynski likes the V for Vendetta script.
– Fantastic Four stars signed for sequels.
Variety has a George Lucas tribute section today, since he’s getting a AFI Lifetime achievement award. (via TFN.)
On blogs.starwars.com, Halagad, aka Abel G. Pena, digs into GFFA linguistics with a look at Star Wars swear words.
National Geographic looks at how scientifically feasible the Star Wars galaxy is. As usual, the answer is “not very”, but it’s interesting (and educational!) to wonder.
TrekToday reports that Babylon 5‘s J. Michael Straczynski has spoken to Paramount executives about a Battlestar Galactica-style “reboot” of the classic series. Paramount is sticking firm on giving the Trek franchise a rest, but it’s an interesting possibility, seeing as Trek was never quite the total crap that the original BSG was. And didn’t TNG basically serve the same purpose as a reboot?
Still, the concept of Straczynski running Star Trek, any Star Trek, is enough to keep the fanboys awake at night.
Emerson Spartz, creator of Mugglenet, got an invitation to Scotland to interview J.K. Rowling. Lucky kid!
In other fiction news, the folks over at Bookslut have an interview with Lois McMaster Bujold.
On starwars.com today, an announcement of Republic Commando: Triple Zero, sequel to Karen Traviss’ well-received Hard Contact.
More recent EU announcements: August comics, and a first look at Dark Warning, second book of Jude Watson’s Last of the Jedi series.
ROTS has fallen to third place at the box office this week, but it’s climbing up the all-time list steadily – #19 at the moment, but it’ll probably pass ROTJ and AOTC pretty easily. It also beat Shrek 2‘s record for being the fastest film to reach $300 million.