News: Panels, interview, ILM, and more

Full transcript from the Great To Be Nominated post-movie panel discussion. See how Pablo suffers so we might be properly informed?

Dutch fansite ToscheStation.nl interviews Rick McCallum about his background in film, working with George, and of course, the TV shows.

Three-part BBC series on ILM concludes with a look at the people driving the effects and a photo gallery.

Carrie Fisher one of the judges on Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett’s On the Lot, a Hollywood-based reality show debuting in May.

The Force In The Flesh, a new book about Star Wars body art, will debut at Celebration. Doesn’t appear to be an official release, but certainly of interest to many fans.

Pre-order the Star Wars stamps now.

Bonnie Burton hosting ‘Make Your Own Yoda Doll’ workshop at Maker Faire.

TV show hints from an unlikely source

AICN has a tidbit regarding the upcoming Clone Wars 3-D show from musician Eric Riegler:

The EmCee introduced Eric, and said Eric had just finished recording some music for the Star Wars TV Series. I followed up with Eric during the intermission, and he told me the following: Yes, he did in fact record music for the series. Each of the planets has its own theme, and the one he was brought in to develop music for was patterned after Bulgaria. So, his music was patterned after an instrument (I think he called it a gaeda (spelling?), a bagpipe-like instrument played there), although he performed his music on the Irish Pipes. He said it looked amazing, and Lucas had done an incredible job of the look/feel of at least what he saw.

He also said he was told the series/his episode would be airing Summer, 2008.