Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
John Campea of The Movie Blog begs George Lucas to make the Thrawn trilogy into movies. Yeah, cause that would totally work.
Look, I love those books. They’re one of the things that really got me into Star Wars fandom. But I just can’t see them as movies. They work great for what they are – novels.
Thoughts? (Note: If anyone starts a ‘casting’ discussion I will shot them on sight. I hate those kind of discussions the way some people hate Jar Jar Binks.)
Comic Packs spotted in the wild. Not really a huge surprise, given they’re supposedly to go on sale today…
It was a busy week on the VIP blogs… First, a slightly defensive Drew Karpyshyn Rule of Two update (seriously fanboys, lay off the guy already,) then John Jackson Miller pondered keeping things unexplained, and we were favored with an Abel G. Peña double-punch on Darth names and, of all things, The Crystal Star.
RebelScum reports that among their rebooted Evolution will be three sets that contain EU figures – Evolution of the Jedi will have a NJO Luke Skywalker, Evolution of the Sith (#2?) contains Darths Bane and Nihilus, and Evolution of the Fetts will have a Mandalore figure. (Looks like KOTOR era, but I could be wrong.)
Also, expect to see the the HttE and ESB Infinities Comic two packs on shelves in August, and the X-Wing pack (Hobbie! Fel!) in November, with wave 5 following in December.
Also spotted at Hasbro: Yoda & Kybuck, shirtless Anakin from the (first) Clone Wars cartoons; Darth Revan and Darth Malak from the KOTOR games and pre-cyborg Grievous and a McQuarrie concept Chewbacca.
Looks like the big announcements from the Star Wars publishing panel was not only the anticipated Star Wars Atlas by Jason Fry and Daniel Wallace, but also new edition of the Star Wars Encyclopedia from Steve Sansweet and Pablo Hidalgo. There have been rumblings about the latter, but I believe this is the first official word on the matter. Both books are due out in 2008.
Dark Horse releases Knights of the Old Republic #18 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer #5 into comic stores this Wednesday.
Word on the street is that Star Wars Insider #95 is starting to show up in subscriber mailboxes, and that it contains an interview with LOTF author Troy Denning and lots of hints about what happens in Inferno, in addition to a few pages on Clone Wars, and a Q&A with Leland Chee.
There’s a fan summary of the interview a couple posts down on this thread at the NJOE boards.
UPDATE: What’s inside Star Wars Insider #95 at StarWars.com.
Against the Empire, the eighth book in Jude Watson’s Last of the Jedi series, is due in October.
Expect to see Dark Times #4 and the Endgame 30th Anniversary collection on comic stores shelves Wednesday.