Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
If Diablo Cody Wrote Star Wars:
C-3PO: Thank the Maker, this oil bath is going to feel so good! I have such a bad case of dust contamination I can barely move.
Luke: Don’t mind me harshing your Calgon moment, Goldleaf. I’ll a little too busy hating the universe.
You are a sick little man, Pablo. Sick.
The latest buzz seems to be that Spielberg’s people are negotiating to have Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull open the Cannes Film Festival. (You may recall that Revenge of the Sith opened the festival back in 2005.) Cannes starts on May 15th this year, and the film is set for a May 22nd release.
Another rumor: Reshoots!
San Francisco Chronicle on The Force Unleashed. They also feature Ray Harryhausen, who is awesome. (Star Wars content, not that you should care: Quotes from Dennis Muren, lots of ILM mentions.)
Supposedly the special is playing on ABC’s site, but I can’t get anything there but commercials and promos. And people wonder why Youtube is so popular?
An 80’s-style remix of the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull trailer. (via)
StarWars.com reports that the Topps Indiana Jones Heritage trading card set will come with Artist Sketch cards. Read more about it here. Or go here to see a list of the artists. And there’s also Vintage Sticker Magnets. The cards are supposed to be coming out at the tail end of February – probably this week!
Meanwhile, who’s the most adorable adventurer with a whip and fedora? I think the Mighty Muggs version of Indiana Jones might be the winner here – check out that Mola Ram with flaming heart accessory! and you thought the Star Wars Mighty Muggs were cute.
And speaking of Mola Ram, here’s what he will look like in the upcoming LEGO Indiana Jones video game.
But if a cool statue of Indiana Jones in that classic scene from the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark is more to your taste, you can get one of those too.
The Golden Compass took the VFX Oscar. Sorry, ILM. Needless to say, that was pretty much the only genre win of the night, but you can check out the rest of the winners at Oscar.com.
Bootleg trailer for X-Files 2 from WonderCon. Watch it before the copyright police find it! If you actually want to read, io9 has a bit on the panel itself.
Cinematical has a “super delegate secret spy source” on what’s going down with the Fanboys re-edits. The cancer remains cut, there’s a new editor, and on the whole, it doesn’t sound too promising:
Here’s where it gets messy: Apparently, both versions were screened for test audiences — and the new version only tested two points higher than the old version. My super delegate source also claims plants may have been in the audience — there to pursuade moviegoers to vote against the original version — but this has not been proven. In two days, after the old version was screened, Brill re-cut the film and they tested it again — this time it was tighter, dirtier and contained nudity, lots of F-bombs, the whole works. And even with all that, it still only tested two points higher than the old version. But since Weinstein had to justify the fact that they spent an extra $2 million on the re-shoots, they went with the newer, flashier, Without a Paddle-esque version of Fanboys.
Oh Hollywood, can you never leave well enough alone?