Lucas Licensing is toning down the packaging look for next year – the eye-searing lava and flames motif is being replaced by images of Mustafar from afar. Darth Vader, of course, remains.
The rapture will in fact occur next Thursday
With the JadeCon bearing down on us, blogging has been rather sparse. With my apologies, here’s a few things to check out:
The cast of the upcoming Star Wars Trilogy: Musical Edition (you may remember them from C3) will be performing at the opening of the Boston Museum of Science’s “Science of Star Wars” exhibit this fall. George Lucas himself will be there! We’ll going to start gathering nausea tips and soothing vapors for the cast at JadeCon.
Charles Ross, who performs the One-Man Star Wars Trilogy, has been getting quite a bit of press lately – mainly Reuters and The Associated Press which means he’ll no doubt be appearing in your local paper on the next slow news day.
Lucasfilm has hired Joshua Katz as a new head of marketing and is running Presidio with AMD Opteron processors.
Business cards for various Star Wars and Star Trek characters. (Via Boing Boing)
And finally, for Hyperspace members, CJer Charlene Newcomb’s story Turning Point is the latest story on starwars.com.
I believe that about rounds it up… For now.
Tour Rancho Obi-Wan
The starwars.com gang and a few other familiar faces visit Steve Sansweet’s Rancho Obi-Wan. Bonnie takes pictures.
Remember the first- wait, no.
Revenge of the Sith DVD to drop November 1st. One of the featurettes explains the exact nature of the whole ‘Chosen One’ thing, which will no doubt set the fandom into a froth of argument.
(Bitter. Sorry. Read too many Dark Nest spoilers from the crazy zone this week. It’s hard to have any faith in fandom after visiting the TFN boards.)
Voice of Grievous and deleted scene make appearance at Comic-Con
Matthew Wood, Supervising Sound Editor of Episode III and voice of General Grievous, came on stage at Steve Sansweet’s Star Wars Spectacular and provided a demonstration of how he created the General’s voice, complete with sound equiptment. Fan reports have him actually have him singing a song – Hyperspace members can find out for themselves by listening to the audiocast of the event.
Steve also hinted at some of the content on the Revenge of the Sith DVD, and showed one of the deleted scenes dealing with the founding of the Rebellion. Certainly I’m not the only one hoping for an Extended Edition, ala Peter Jackson?
Slow weekend
Not much going on – fandom as a whole is too busy speculating on next week’s new Harry Potter, we expect.
San Diego Comic-Con starts on Wednesday – starwars.com has an Insider’s Guide and a list of kid-approved stuff. Vader: The Ultimate Guide will debut there, but can also be ordered online.
There’s also an announcement of the latest Hyperspace feature – an ‘audiocast’ – interviews, event coverage, and archival audio. No dates, but it’s “coming soon.”
And finally, Douglas Brown of the Denver Post explores our need for modern heros.
Only six weeks ’till JadeCon!
ROTS DVD coming in November
USA Today reports that the Revenge of the Sith DVD is expected to be in stores as on November 8th. Is that early? It seems early. But you can’t expect LFL to pass up a holiday release…
File under WTF
New member of Parliament claims to be a Jedi. I have trouble believing people are actually serious about this kind of thing. The census thing was a joke, folks. Joke. Not serious.
Oh well. As long as he doesn’t start ranting off about pharmaceutical drugs Tom Cruise wacko-style, I think the U.K. will survive.
May the Fourth be with you
Another marketing push, but this time you actually get a free ticket, if you buy three. Not that the poster last time wasn’t cool, but… Free! Ticket!
Simple tricks and nonsense
An intriguing, if overly fanboy, look at how the prequel and original trilogies could be connected. Features R2-D2 as a Rebel field agent, Qui-Gon Jinn as undead method of communication, and Chewbacca as the Rebellion’s top-line spy. Reads more as a fanfic outline than garden-variety speculation – as far-fetched as it may be, there’s enough out-of-nowhere connections to make George Lucas proud. (via Cinematical.)