Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
The official blog’s Flickr now has pictures from George’s presentation; the 501st has details on the troopers present, as well as a link to the AP story on the event.
UPDATE: Here’s the StarWars.com coverage of George’s presentation, along with some of the other film presentations.
Science fiction writer Terry Pratchett has donated nearly $1 million dollars to study the disease that he was diagnosed with last December. There is also a link on the page to Pratchett’s exclusive interview with the BBC.
Adam Rodgers explores the concept that all geek springs from D&D at the NYT. As a concept it’s hit-or-miss, but the diagram is funny.
…Or perhaps more appropriately :”It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading Facebook instead of banning them.” Paramount is planning to release thousands of short video clips from its many films for use on Facebook, using the VooZoo application, according to The Press Association. While many films will be released soon (this week), clips of the man with the whip and fedora will wait. Terms for releasing clips of Indiana Jones films will have to wait for the moment while they hash out the marketing plan related to the release of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
In other Indy news, you can now play some of the new LEGO Indiana Jones video game next weekend, even though the game doesn’t come out in June. The only catch – you’ll need to be in the UK, at the Play.com live event at Wembley Stadium.
Want to have an Indiana Jones themed birthday party? Better pre-order those Indy supplies. 4 hats for $3.35!
And in random news, filmmaker Uwe Boll, (director of Bloodrayne), has intentionally decided to release his new film, Postal, on the same opening weekend as Indiana Jones, saying, ”On the Indiana Jones weekend – May 23 – we will go out and destroy Indiana Jones in the Box Office! We all know that Harrison Ford is older as my grandpa and his time is up – would Michael Moore say! Spielberg gets sloppy. We saw that with War of the Worlds (why the —- the older brother survived?) and also in parts of Jaws, E.T., Munich etc.! My performance in Postal as ‘Nazi Theme Park Owner’ outperforms easily Ben Kingsley in Schindler’s List!” (CinemaBlend.com’s first tag on this news article is “Stupidity” – says it all)
George Lucas is (naturally) one of Forbes’ Celebrity Billionaires.
He’s #277 on their list of The World’s Billionaires, and featured in Homes Of The Billionaires… But didn’t the L.A. Times article say he doesn’t live at the Ranch? We need a fact-checker, stat.
Popmatters asks comedian Margaret Cho the eternal question: Star Trek or Star Wars? Her answer:
Star Wars for sure. I have never seen anything Star Trek. I love sci-fi, but I’m more Star Wars-oriented. I’m totally obsessed with Chewbacca. He’s incredible.
I’m a bit of an insomniac, and so when I can’t sleep, I think about brushing Chewbacca, getting all the tangles out. I bet he is really tangled and needs some of that ‘no more tears’ spray. So I would use a wide tooth comb. I also think about braiding Chewbacca. Like two long, French braids on either side of his body. I bet he would look really good if his hair was braided.
Who has played an RPG (Role-Playing Game) in their life? If you’re one of the geek-minded subculture of gamers, then the answer is most of you. Today, the co-creator of the grandfather of all role-playing games, Gary Gygax, died at his home in Lake Geneva, WI, the origin site of GenCon. The article I saw it at is here, as reported by SlashDot.
Rest in Peace, Mr. Gygax. Your contribution to entertainment and leisure time has provided countless hours, days, even months of fun, learning, and opportunities to grow in many lives, for many years.
Before Indiana Jones can go in search of the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on May 22, he’s got to unveil some other treasure – Special Editions of the first three Indiana Jones films, coming to DVD on May 13, with some new bonus content. Previously released as a box set, this time the films are available individually, with some new features, including a joint discussion with the women of Indy: Karen, Kate and Alison. Read the official press release IndianaJones.com (or copied for easier linking over on ComingSoon.net). But StarWars.com has the box art…
Meanwhile, the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull teaser trailer had reached over 200 million viewings online – in the first week alone. Read more about it on Yahoo!
Who’s the cat thats grumblin’ about
he won’t be in Indy when it comes out?
Samuel L. Jackson!
Can you dig it?!
(apologies to Isaac Hayes)