Star Wars: A New Hope is #39 on the American Film Insitute’s list of America’s Most Inspiring Movies.
The Great Star Wars Synchronicity Project
James Greene is watching Star Wars movies accompanied by various albums to see if they synch ala Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz.
Crazy or dedicated? You decide. But in my mind, he wins just for the awesome entry titles like Gonkbusters, Luke & Han’s Bogus Journey, and Paradise by the Death Star Light.
Vomiting geek all over
Warren Ellis writes the one and only thing he will ever write about Star Wars. And then he does it again with an interesting (if totally unverifiable) story about George Lucas and Akira Kurosawa.
And then there’s Shatner and it all goes to hell.
Can you go there?
Ryan Gosling? Rosario Dawson? Vince Vaughn? Cinematical is re-casting Star Wars, so now is the time for those psycho raving fans we love so dearly* to run over and tell them how very, very wrong they are.
Although Morgan Freeman would make an awesome Obi-Wan…
* Or not.
At least it’s not Solid Gold
Penny Arcade: George Lucas taped over the original trilogy!
Shit! The muppet is packing!
Lego’s ode to profit
Fortune article on Lego CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp mentions Star Wars:
When Lego decided in 1999 to launch a Star Wars series, recalls Jakobsen, “getting the license from Lucas was nothing compared to the internal struggle over having the word ‘war’ appear under the Lego brand.”
The rest of the article is actually rather depressing. I can’t say streamlining a business and making it more profitable are bad things, but Fortune makes it sound like any of the other company goals are irrelevant. (I guess that’s why I’m not the type of person who reads stuff like Fortune.)
Meanwhile, Starwars.com wants your vote on what the next Ultimate Collectors Set should be: R2-D2, FX-6, Vulture Droid Starfighter or an Electronic AT-AT walker? I don’t think the FX or the Vulture droid has much of a chance here…
OOT covers revisited
Star Wars in the News
MTV names Hayden Christensen Best Villain
Revenge of the Sith was up for three MTV Movie Awards tonight. Did it win any? Well, either you can wait until the show airs on June 8th, or you can look beneath the cut and find out now. Your choice. Continue reading “MTV names Hayden Christensen Best Villain”