Look past the gigantic banner ad, and you’ll find Kevin Smith’s review of Revenge of the Sith. Spoilers upon spoilers upon spoilers, but totally worth the read.
C3 Wrapup
I’m sorry for not blogging the last few days of C3, but.. well. Busy is an understatement, and I’m saying this with a Volunteer badge. Most of the stuff from the EU panels is already out on the internet – I’d give you links now but I find working with touchpads a mild form of torture. When I return to the world of mice tomorrow I’ll get it together. However…
1. George Lucas. Not much new info, but that wasn’t really the point. He confirmed the whole TV show thing for the fifth or sixth time. (Is anyone still surprised?) but now we get details: Clone Wars will get to be a real boy (in 3D) and the live-action series will come about a year after that and be set between ROTS and ANH.
2. Legacy of Force, aka the post-NJO nine book series we’ve all heard about. There’s a metric ton about this on the internet already and I couldn’t possibly remember everything.
3. Timothy Zahn had a panel today – lots of obvious questions, but we did find out that his classic trilogy novel will be set right after ANH, involve both Luke and Mara but NOT together. NO THRAWN, praise the Emperor.
Saw the new footage again. Natalie Portman sure is getting a lot of mileage out of that one expression.
Is there more? Probably. But my brain has turned to mush.
Dancing Jedi
I don’t know why, but the idea of Ewan McGregor twirling his lightsaber to Norah Jones amuses me.
Brits snag first marathon
British Star Wars fans will be the first in the world to see all six films back-to-back, including the eagerly-awaited final installment, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.
Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox are to show the entire saga in London’s Leicester Square on May 16, a day after Episode III’s world premiere in an out-of-competition screening at the Cannes film festival, but a full three days before it goes on general release in the UK.
Bloody hell!
Mace is one Bad MoFo
Samuel L. Jackson received a special gift when he finished on the ROTS set.
Thrilled Samuel said: “There’s a lot of lore that goes along with Star Wars and I guess because I’ve been known since Pulp Fiction as a bad motherf*****, everybody thought that should be on my lightsaber.”
Can’t sleep, clowns will eat me
Three new TV commercials: Jedi Action I,Jedi Action II, and Unity. All are action-packed and heavy with the cheese factor.
Looking for tickets?
Episode III tickets are going on sale all over the country this weekend, and for those of us way too lazy to research every theater in the immediate area, TFN has theater lists.
Line nerds still getting attention
VH1’s Best Week Ever covered the Graumans line tonight. It amused me. But they didn’t even mention the whole wrong line thing so it was standard nerd-mocking. But, y’know, funny.
Speaking of nerds… Wil Wheaton tangles with the line. And he has t-shirts!
ROTS beats down Ya-Yas
The novelization Revenge of the Sith made it to number 2 on the Publisher’s Weekly bestseller list for hardcover fiction last week. It was beaten, naturally, by The Da Vinci Code.
And the PG-13 rating is finally official, for “sci-fi violence and some intense images.” Click over to filmratings.com to see for yourself.
The Force Can Never Die
Thanks to TFN for pointing out this very funny article.
Apparently, there are still many ways in which George Lucas can continue to keep Star Wars changing over the next 50 years.