Our first official (or at least unblurred) look at the new McDonalds tie-ins is here – I assume they start next week? And they actually are bobbleheads. Oh, McDonalds. (via)
Today (yesterday?) in The Clone Wars
- George Lucas, Dave Filoni and Catherine Winder on the official site; Lucas, Filoni and LucasArt’s Darrel Rodriguez at Entertainment Weekly; Filoni and Winder at Cinema Blend.
- The Deadbolt has seven questions about The Clone Wars.
- The official webcomic announcement is here – and not a word about Hyperspace.
- The Clone Wars novel is #12 on the Publisher’s Weekly bestseller list, and #48 on USA Today’s.
- Also: The Mercury News, The New York Sun, Brisbane Times, New Zealand Herald.
Today in The Clone Wars: Lucas, Filoni, and more
The Maker talks about his television endeavours and what to expect from the new series. Also at MTV, Dave Filoni on swapping the opening crawl for a newsreel style opener.
- The Skywalker Ranch press event report at Cinema Blend. (Poor George!)
- Filoni speaks to IFMagazine.
- Matthew Wood turns io9’s Annalee Newitz into a droid.
- KansasCity.com with Yoda voice actor Tom Kane.
- Design at the official site.
George speaks on The Clone Wars
io9 reports from yesterday’s conference at Skywalker Ranch, including several length quotes from George Lucas about the movie/series. The BBC has a few more quotes and some video.
More The Clone Wars clips: Ventress vs. Kenobi
Speak of the devil: IESB has a duel between Asajj Ventress and Obi-Wan, along with several other new clips. Is “toss the skirt” the new “nuke the fridge?”
Today in The Clone Wars (so far)
The movie was screened for the media yesterday, so I’ll be on the lookout for increased coverage. So far there’s not too much out there (embargos?) but CNBC’s Jim Goldman has some (nonspoilery) praise. And StarWars.com has an interview with George Lucas and Dave Filoni.
To hold us over, io9 has ten reasons why the Clone Wars TV series is going to rule, including “seriously kickass female ninjas.” Not really sure about Ashoka myself, but I am looking forward to see more Asajj Ventress. Head over to Moviehole for an interview with TCW’s Anakin, Matt Lanter, and U.S. military folks are advised to check with their base theaters for early screenings!
Video: Ashoka Tano, Warrior Princess?
Uh-huh.
Today in The Clone Wars: Sad panda edition
Nab the widget for your own site. If only it was scalable…
Lucasfilm pushes the ‘girl power’ angle with Ashoka, though I’m not sure that headline is the inference they’re looking for. Speaking of our latest leading lady, there was a TCW segment with Ashley Eckstein on Entertainment Tonight the other day, but I’m not finding it on their site. Why you gotta be like that, ET? It’s 2008, and you are syndicated: Embrace the web already!
Less frustrating: TFN has some sample pages from the new Visual Guide, while MTV previews the movie/tv series’ upcoming game tie-ins.
The Clone Wars weekly web comic is coming
Grant Gould broke the news last night (at least online) that he, Tom Hodges, Katie Cook, and Jeff Carlisle will be working on a The Clone Wars web comic for StarWars.com to accompany the tv series. Hodges revealed more this morning on the TFN boards:
The quick version is each week, we’ll be given a story leading into that weeks episode. Now it could be a direct tie-in or peripherally connected from a distance because some episodes have story arcs not connected to each and every episode. Keep in mind, the series will not always be about Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padme. It will flesh out characters we’ve only seen bits and pieces of.
This will also NOT be “web-strip” format. It will be full color, comic format and each story will be 5 pages in length.
More as we get it!
Todayish in The Clone Wars: The second review!
- Review: SFX gives the movie four stars.
- People: George Lucas in The Times; Reel Talk has an audio interview with Dave Filoni from SDCC. (via;) Matt Lanter talks to Skewed and Reviewed about voicing Anakin Skywalker.
- Music: ScoreNotes has an audio interview with composer Kevin Kiner; You can preview his work (and gander at some mild spoilers) over at starwarsthemusic.com. (via)
- Posters: CanMag has a couple of new quad posters.