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Details on Young Indy DVD set, Volume 2; Crystal Skull LEGO Clues?

Barely taking a breath from the release of the first volume, StarWars.com has started their coverage of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume 2, which will be released on December 18, 2007. Volume 2: The War Years will have nine discs with 8 episodes and 25 documentaries. The ninth disc has the interactive timeline and more features. Read about the highlights of the set here and get the brief synopsis of each disc.

The in-depth tour of each disc begins with:

  • Disc 1: Trenches of Hell – Indy, now in the Belgian Army, ends up in command of his unit, which is then sent to the Somme, and Indy and Remy witness the horrors of trench warfare. Indy ends up captured, and eventually escapes a German prison at Dusterstadt with his fellow prisoner Charles de Gaulle. Documentaries cover the Battle of the Somme, poets Sigfried Sassoon & Robert Graves, and French leader (and future airport) Charles de Gaulle.

    and on the “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” front: will the upcoming LEGO sets give a clue to the movie’s plot?

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    This can’t be good…can it?

    There’s nothing quite like the feeling of the world tilting off its axis, as news spreads on the interwebs that yes, the Dragonball Z live action movie is a go. Among the rumored cast members are Justin Chatwin (from the War of the Worlds movie and Lost) as Goku and James Marsters, (of Buffy and Angel fame) as the villain. James Kyson Lee (Ando from Heroes) reportedly auditioned for the role of Yamcha.

    My only question is, will Goku’s power level be over nine thousand?

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    Boldly Casting Where No One Has Cast Before

    Dang. This upcoming Trek film is becoming a cast of thousands kinda film.

    – According to the Hollywood Reporter, Bruce Greenwood is playing the man soon-to-be-doomed to a bad makeup job and a chair with lights. (Aka, Captain Pike in his still-mobile days.)

    – In even more interesting casting news, Winona Ryder (yes, really) has been cast to play Spock’s mother, Amanda Grayson.

    – Our last tidbit of casting news is that you, too, can have a chance to join this cast of thousands. There’s an open casting call this weekend for both the odd- and the good-looking to be cast as extras.

    Too… many… punchlines….

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    Indiana Jones and the Random Bits of Indy News

    Some random bits of news from the world of the adventuring archaeologist, Indiana Jones and …

  • The Walgreens of Doom? Shia LaBeouf arrested in Chicago for refusing to leave a Walgreens at 2:30 am.
  • The Sidekick from Beowulf? Ray Winstone talks to MTV Movies Blog about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, saying “It’s one hell of a story.”
  • The Website of Social Networking? Indy’s on Myspace.. and he’s a 26-year old Gemini?!
  • The Unpleasant Review? The Minneapolis Star Tribune gives a short review of the Young Indy DVD set: “None of this tinkering makes the episodes any less boring than I remember.” Wait for the later volumes, when there’s a little more action…
  • The Crossover Cameo? LEGO Indiana Jones makes a cameo in the new LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga game.
  • The Big Stack of Reading? Some of the Indiana Jones literature that is in the works to get you ready for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, including an omnibus set of comics from Dark Horse!
  • The Raiders of the Set? Thief pleads guilty for trying to sell items stolen from the set of Indy IV.
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    He’ll never eat lunch in this town again!

    Why do the studios need those pesky union writers when they can hire Alex Perez, Hollywood scab writer? Be sure to check out the vids, especially the romance one. Although, to be honest, he might have been able to improve upon:

    Anakin: Don’t be afraid.

    Padme: I’m not afraid to die. I’ve been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life.

    Anakin: What are you talking about?

    Padme: I love you.

    Anakin: You love me? I thought we had decided not to fall in love. That we’d be forced to love a lie and that it would destroy our lives.

    Padme: I think our lives are about to be destroyed anyway. I truly… deeply… love you and before we die I want you to know.

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    Writers walk; Potter strips

    The Writers Guild of America is officially on strike after last minute negotiations failed late on Sunday night.

    The probably means that John Stewart and The Colbert Report will be going into repeats (is this really why Colbert has dropped out of the presidential race?) What impact the strike will have on television series and films will depend on how long it lasts (in 1988 writers walked the pavement for 22 weeks) and whether other entertainment industry unions follow suit.

    In happier news, the BBC reports that Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has confirmed that he will be going the full monty in NYC when Equus comes to Broadway next year.

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    Trek Talk for Today

    Geez. How many people are going to be in this movie?

    Apparently, Captain Pike is going to be in the upcoming Star Trek movie with Josh Lucas being rumored as in the running. (Insert comment about his great abs here.)

    In other Trek Talk, Nichelle Nichols is an object of awe on the Heroes set. (I can totally understand that.)

    And let’s all give out a yell for KHAAAAAN at the 2007 Scream Awards in which they celebrated the 25th anniversary of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

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    Trust No One

    Except for maybe ComingSoon, which reports that the long-rumored second X-Files movie is due to start shooting in Vancouver (woot!) on December 10.

    Rob Bowman is set to direct a script written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz (where, oh, where is Darin Morgan?!?).

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    Young Indy Volume 1 DVDs released; Interviews with George and Rick on Young Indy

    DVD Tuesday brought the release of the first volume of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on DVD, a 12-disc set with 7 feature-length episodes and wads of documentaries and other bonus features.

    As previously reported, this is the first of three DVD sets which will contain the entire series, which aired in the early 90’s as the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and then released on video in the late 90’s. This first volume contains the first 7 episodes in chronological order, which covers all the episodes with nine-year-old Indiana Jones, played by Corey Carrier, as he travels the world with his parents and tutor, as well as some of episodes with teenaged Indy, played by Sean Patrick Flanery, as he ditches high school to get caught up in various adventures in 1916, before getting into World War I. As with the late 90’s videotape release, the original YIJC TV show episodes have had their bookend segments removed (where an older Indy, usually played by George Hall, reminisced) and stitched together two TV episodes into one longer episode, with some bridging material filmed later to help join the episodes into one story. Does anyone miss the bookend segments besides me?

    The Baltimore Sun has an article and a blog entry talking up the Young Indiana Jones DVDs with an interview with George Lucas. Lucas talks about how the documentaries connect to the episodes’ content – “to bring history to life”.

    The Pitch, from Kansas City, has an interview with Rick McCallum on making Young Indy… and young Darth Vader… for the kids in “The Force Is Strong With This One”.

    With the Yale-Indy connection furthered this summer as a filming location, the Yale Daily News has a piece on the Yale connection to the documentaries on the DVDs.

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