Gate Geek – Zelenka’s innocent, I tell ya!

Poor Radek Zelenka.  After getting dissed in Trio, he gets arrested for poisoning patients in a hospital.

Well, not really.  But David Nykl (who plays Radek) found it amusing enough to post on his blog in Czech about the real-life convicted murderer named Zelenka and make us think he was spoiling the season finale.  (‘Cause I totally don’t read Czech.)

In other news, a Niagara-area newspaper interviews a certain actor who is not only making a comeback in tonight’s episode, but also scored himself a part in another franchise movie that’s going to be released in May of 2009.  (Cryptic enough for you?  I didn’t think so.)

Wondercon starts tomorrow!

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.

Hayden Christensen explains it all

IMAGEHe 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.

In the news: The few, the proud, the not Clone Wars

In the news: While we were squeeing…

Harrison Ford on Barbara Walters’ Oscar show

Harrison Ford is among the stars that Barbara Walters will talk to on her Oscar Special. Expect lots of questions on Indiana Jones. The Barbara Walters Special will air February 24th at 7pm Eastern, just before the Oscars. (West Coast viewers can catch it after the show.)

UPDATE 02/25: Video is here.

ABC, gearing up for their Crystal Skull trailer debut, also take a look at Indy stars past and present in Indiana Jones: Then and Now.