As you have hopefully already heard, Mark Hamill will be guesting on Chuck next season.
During a break in filming, Zachary Levi and Joshua Gomez indulged every fan’s dream by getting Mark to go back to his old Jedi ways. Sweet!
Video: Harrison Ford is still angry
At least Chewbacca is safe.
Video: Harrison Ford settles a feud
On Jimmy Kimmel last night…
Video: Ewan McGregor plays lightsaber baseball
Does he still have it? Watch and see.
Video: Jon Favreau interviews Harrison Ford
This is one of several parts of an excellent interview that Ford did with Favreau for Cowboys and Aliens. Above, he talks about the Star Wars casting process.
He talks about Irvin Kershner and ‘I know’ in this one:
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The fandom minute: Parenting with Admiral Ackbar
Young Archer here is well on his way to complete Star Wars indoctrination. (via)
- Mark Hamill, new to Twitter, did a brief fan Q&A on Tuesday. Topics included Alec Guinness, the most difficult Star Wars actor and the craziest thing a fan has asked him to sign.
- Obi-Wan is one of Empire’s ten movie figures better than real dads. He only lied for your own good, Luke. Also on the list? Indiana Jones.
- The Death Star PR folks have written an open letter to Natalie Portman regarding her newborn son.
- Jess whips up outfits inspired by Luke’s Dagobah gear and Ahsoka in Clone Wars S3.
- Check out Redditer Punqington’s awesome Millennium Falcon wedding cake.
- Apparently the new Miss USA, California’s Alyssa Campanella, is a Star Wars fan.
MacGregor talks about his first time seeing Star Wars
Play.com has an ‘exclusive’ clip of Ewan MacGregor, from the upcoming Blu-rays, talking about his uncle Denis Lawson (Wedge) and his first time seeing Star Wars.
Video: Samuel L. Jackson (of course) reads Go the F**k to Sleep
Parody children’s book Go the F**k to Sleep has been generating a ton of buzz across the internet lately, and that certainly won’t be harmed by getting pop culture’s most acclaimed dropper of the f-bomb, Samuel L. Jackson, to read the audiobook version. It is, if I may say, glorious. (via)
UPDATE: The full video version has been copyrighted, but you can download the uncensored audio for free at Audible.
Natalie Portman, fiance welcome baby boy
People reports that Portman and fiancé Benjamin Millepied have had a son. Somehow I doubt they’ll be naming him ‘Luke,’ but you never know… In any case, congratulations to the couple and their new arrival!
In the news: Will we see Red Tails in January?
Director Anthony Hemingway tweeted a few days ago that Red Tails, the George Lucas-produced film about World War II’s Tuskegee Airmen “hits screens January 2012.” Meanwhile, it seems that Lucas himself may be in Prague to oversee the film’s score.
3-D on the wane? The New York Times says the pricey format is fizzling, which could spell bad news for next year’s Phantom Menace rerelease. Scalzi is more optimistic; Maybe Star Wars can be part of the solution here.
Good news, bad news. People checks in with Carrie Fisher’s Jenny Craig-powered weight loss. Spoiler: It’s going well! The news is less good for Hayden Christensen… His lawsuit over USA Network’s Royal Pains was thrown out by a federal judge.
Whatever happened to… Those kids who got suspended for the lightsaber fight? They did get to walk at their graduation and even got to complete their ‘fight’ at a senior assembly.
Fannishly. An interview with the Mike Litzenberg and Bridge Stuart, the guys behind ‘George Lucas Strikes Back.’