Are you familiar with the Stormtrooper effect? How about the Inverse Ninja Law? The Imperial Stormtrooper School of Marksmanship? Wikipedia explains.
A Fanboys preview
IESB has a few first look at the movie Fanboys. Highlights include cheap plastic lightsabers, Jimmy Olsen, Billy Dee Williams, and Kirsten Bell (Veronica Mars, Tuesday on the CW!) in a wig… and the metal bikini. Like there were any doubts.
Hayden in another trilogy
I guess trilogies are guaranteed employment for an actor. Hopefully Hayden Christensen sees this as a good thing. His latest movie Jumper (co-starring another Star Wars alum, Samuel L. Jackson) is going to be a trilogy.
Harry Potter, sick little pervert
Good news, bad news for readers
Bad: J.K. Rowling has not written 750 pages of book 7, as reported earlier.
Good: Peter Jackson has optioned Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series. This doesn’t actually mean he’ll actually adapt them, but it’s certainly hopeful. Of course, there’s plenty of reaction on Novik’s livejournal.
Best. Merchandise. Ever.
Horrified B-Movie Victims Figure Set!
Also, Entertainment Earth has an Expanded Universe section? When did that happen?
Been there, done that
The Hobbit in 2007? (Thanks, Yav!) It must be a nefarious plot by New Line to overshadow the 30th anniversary of Star Wars.
Okay, seriously, weren’t there rights issues involved? I don’t recall hearing anything about a resolution… But then, it is just an anon tip, so who knows?
Third Pirates title confirmed
No big surprise here: It’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, according to screenwriter Terry Rossio.
Speaking of CGI…
Twitch Guru looks at CGI Gone Awry: The Worst Special Effects of the Computer-Generated Era. Among the honored: The Hulk, Van Helsing, Wild Wild West, and the ’97 Jabba from the ANH Special Edition. I agree, and to up the odds: CGI Jabba was way, way worse than Han shooting first. Discuss.
But will he sing?
Christopher Nolan talks about what flavor of Joker we’ll be getting in The Dark Knight.