Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Steve Sansweet cautioned TFN about believing the Amazon listing, but now the Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia is showing up on the Random House site with a November release date, too!
Via TFN, who also have some possible authors for the Clone Wars young reader books.
On StarWars.com, a Threepio character study for The Clone Wars.
Coming Soon and StarWars.com weren’t the only folks talking to George at ShoWest – Entertainment Weekly got to sit down with the Maker as well. Although mostly focused on the two TV shows, he also talks Indy IV and Red Tails.
Coming Soon gets to talk to George Lucas. He talks about The Clone Wars and the live action series, which we won’t be seeing until 2010, now. He even talks about the EU, sort of:
But there’s no story past “Episode VI”, there’s just no story. It’s a certain story about Anakin Skywalker and once Anakin Skywalker dies, that’s kind of the end of the story. There is no story about Luke Skywalker, I mean apart from the books. But there’s three worlds: There’s my world that I made up, there’s the licensing world that’s the books, the comics, all that kind of stuff, the games, which is their world, and then there’s the fans’ world, which is also very rich in imagination, but they don’t always mesh. All I’m in charge of is my world. I can’t be in charge of those other people’s world, because I can’t keep up with it.
“They don’t always mesh.” Understatement of year! But hey, we knew what we were getting into, right?
Right?
The Associated Press nabbed George Lucas at ShoWest to talk a bit about The Clone Wars. Not much of a look at any new footage, sadly.
We’ve never had much interest in the doings of the young kids books, but Paul over at TFN (via Once Upon a Galaxy) has an interesting find: The Clone Wars books for ‘young readers’ and ‘readers’ and published by Penguin’s Grosset & Dunlap imprint. I don’t think this would really effect the adult novels – clearly there are a variety of different contracts at work here. (Including the one with Dorling Kindersley, which is also an imprint of Penguin.) Still, an interesting development.
As for the books themselves, you can check out the lineup on their Star Wars sell sheet (Warning: PDF.) It lists six books with a July 26th release date, and even less plot details than TV Guide.
The official blog’s Flickr now has pictures from George’s presentation; the 501st has details on the troopers present, as well as a link to the AP story on the event.
UPDATE: Here’s the StarWars.com coverage of George’s presentation, along with some of the other film presentations.
IESB reports from Warner Brother’s “The Big Picture” event, which offered looks at this year’s upcoming movies. Here’s what they say about The Clone Wars portion:
The presentation ended with Star Wars: The Clone Wars, introduced by George Lucas himself and accompanied by a small army of clonetroopers.
The footage began with Anakin and his apprentice Ahsoka traveling to a major clone wars battle. They deploy with a bunch of clonetroopers and lead an attack straight up the side of a mountain to a base at the top. The vehicles they’re traveling in actually turn and start climbing vertically up the rock while the Jedi follow on ropes.
Following that there was a montage of footage with Duel of the Fates playing over it. There was one sequence where Count Dooku dispatches Asajj Ventress to find Jabba the Hutt’s son in an effort to win his favor.
Variety also reports. Hopefully we’ll get to see this footage at StarWars.com soon!
So, the first site to get scans of a new TV Guide is… French? Okay! In any case, see the scan at MintinBox.net. (via)
Bonnie details her ShoWest experience – or at least the many movie posters and displays there – at the official blog and Flickr.