Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Lucasfilm is releasing the unaltered Original Trilogy on DVD this September. They’ll only be available for a limited time, but they will be available. StarWarsShop even has Han shot first t-shirts for the occasion.
I’m in shock. How about you?
Media coverage: USAToday / MTV / Zap2it / E!Online / Mercury News / MSNBC.
Revenge of the Sith did well at the Saturn Awards – Best Science Fiction Film and Best Music. Battlefront II won the Best Science Fiction Video Game Release.
Batman Begins won Best Fantasy Film, and Lost and Battlestar Galactica both won for Best TV series in their respective catagories. Christian Bale, Matthew Fox, James Callis, Katee Sackhoff and Serenity’s Summer Glau all took home actor awards.
A New Hope is among the films set to be rereleased in the 3-D format – next May, according to the BBC. Anthony Langlois of The Hollywood News is skeptical; you’d think he’s never met a Star Wars fan before. We’re crazy, and yeah, we will go see ANH yet again. I blame the Kool-Aid.
Revenge of the Sith received three nominations from MTV: Hayden Christensen for Best Villian, Ewan McGregor for Best Hero, and Ewan McGregor vs. Hayden Christensen for Best Fight. The Anakin apologists are not going to be happy about this one…
Wherever you stand, you can vote for your favorites at MTV.com.
The Complete Visual Dictionary looks pretty neat, although I thought we already had one of those…
“Visits to Rancho Obi-Wan,” a Hyperspace exclusive video series about collecting with Steve Sansweet, starts next week.
Lucasfilm’s Senior Model Maker Don Bies is the latest VIP blogger. Dark Horse’s John Ostrander and Jan Duursema have also been spotted on the message boards.
Current scores on the Fan Club President Race: Uscwannabe 77, Dustin Roberts 68.
I’m a child of the 80’s and I loved He-Man and I’m not ashamed to admit it. (Well, maybe a little.) Anyway, here are excerpts from an interview with the man who created He-Man.
But… Chucky? Seriously?
We Must Love One Another or Die is an interesting, if rather ostentatious, anaylsis of the saga. If you dig, you might find a few good points beneath all the verbiage.
Watch out, those droids are packing! Yes, you can now own a set of Star Wars pewter bar tools. The world of SW merchandise never fails to surprise me.
George Lucas and Star Wars are 68th on the Writers Guild of America and Premiere magazine’s 101 Greatest Screenplays list. Casablanca was number one. Link is from Starwars.com’s Variety feed and thus available to Hyperspace members only, but the story is pretty short.