Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Is this or is this not the most amazing staircase ever?
The typography of Pixar. An interview with film designer Susan Bradley.
It’s spreading… Steampunk Justice League.
Top ten geeky cufflinks. Also: Stormtroopers.
Hilarious science fair experiments. Crystal Meth: Friend or foe?
There’s plenty going on for Star Wars fans at the San Francisco con. On Friday, look for the Lucas Licensing Portfolio Review and a showing of Star Wars fan films hosted by the fabulous Mary Franklin. Saturday brings a How to Draw Star Wars panel with Bonnie Burton, Matt Busch and Tom Hodges. And Inside Lucasfilm with Steve Sansweet, which will also feature The Clone Wars Executive Director David Filoni and Producer Catherine Winder.
The official blog has more details.
Other highlights include an X-Files 2 panel with David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson Chris Carter, writer-producer Frank Spotnitz, a Sarah Connor Chronicles Q&A with Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau Brian Austin Green and producer James Middleton. Other highlights include a panels with J. Michael Straczynski, previews of Get Smart, Prince Caspian WALL•E and Iron Man.
Awards season continues with the announcement of awards that geeks can get behind: the Saturn Award nominations. (Although does anyone find their definition of just what is in the sci-fi, fantasy or horror genres just a wee bit broad?)
Internet fans are mobilizing to keep the Weinstein Company from releasing the cancer-free version version of the film.
The New York Post gets a Hollywood.com interview with Cate Blanchett, Oscar nominee and ‘baddie’ in the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
And the award for Best Indiana Jones News Article with no actual news goes to this NY Post bit about a Hollywood.com interview with Harrison Ford. Umm.. where’s the interview, guys? (I can’t find it on Hollywood.com)
and in the gaming world, news is that LEGO Indiana Jones will support up to four-person multiplayer action – the game arrives on June 3.
The official site has a man on the inside! StarWarsShop’s Matt Martin reports on Monday and Tuesday.
There’s even a tidbit of book news in the latter! Check it:
My next meeting was with DK Publishing, a company who didn’t actually have a booth at the show but since I knew they would be attending I managed to set up an appointment to go over some of their upcoming books. Slated for this summer is Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection, which is, obviously, a book full of blueprints of vehicles and other items from the entire Star Wars saga. I was given a sample of the foldout Death Star schematics and it looks great. They’ll also be continuing their great “Visual Guide” line with The Clone Wars in the fall and in the summer they’ll be releasing a guide to Indiana Jones as well!
We knew about the blueprints, and Visual Guides for The Clone Wars and Indy IV aren’t a huge surprise, but they haven’t been announced yet, either.
He talks Jumper, acting and the prequels in the latest issue of Details. The bit you’re going to see all over for the next few days:
“How those movies are made is very specific, as far as what our jobs are,” he says, with a bit of a shrug. “George isn’t looking for us to come in and have script meetings with him and talk about characters.”
…Of course Christensen is grateful to Star Wars. If he could go back and do it all over, he wouldn’t change a thing. Just don’t ask him to do it all again. “It wasn’t necessarily anything you could feel good about creatively, as far as ‘This is why I became an actor,’” he says of his work in Star Wars. He puffs on a cigarette. “It’s not why you become an actor, to do stuff like that.”
Star Wars isn’t about acting? Next you’ll be telling me it’s all about giant piles of toys and stuff blowing up. God, Hayden.
The official site teases Jude Watson’s final Last of the Jedi novel, Reckoning. Look for the book in June, though I expect to see a ‘How will Ferus die?’ poll any minute now.
In other young reader news, there’s also the Indiana Jones Junior Novelizations.
It’s great that they might finally bring Gambit into the X-Men movieverse (or so Superhero Hype reports) but what does he have to do with Wolverine? I mean, I realize I only read X-Men comics for a year or two back in the 90’s, but the two never struck me as having much of a connection. Are they swapping Gambit in for a less popular character, ala Rogue for Jubilee in the first X-movie?
And, sorry Josh Holloway fans, but they’re also saying that Taylor Kitsch of Friday Night Lights has been cast. Hopefully he doesn’t turn out to be too much of a disappointment for the lusting fangirls. Assuming they can tear their eyes from Hugh Jackman, anyway.
ETA: Variety reports that Kitsch is in and indeed playing Gambit. Ryan Reynolds and will.i.am also join the cast as Deadpool and John Wraith.
Jumper topped the box office this weekend, adding fuel to the fire that the combined power of Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson can propel a movie to do well even if the reviews are bad and there’s no giant all-powerful franchise backing it up. Or, maybe people just like sci-fi tinged action movies starring pretty boys and handsome badasses. Will we ever know?
Did anyone see it? Opinions?
