Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Temuera Morrison will be among the stars at Disney’s Star Wars Weekends. He hasn’t been contacted for the TV series but – of course – talks about it anyway:
“If there’s anything there, it would be great of the adventures of Jango,” Morrison enthused. “We better put that in George’s mind. A weekly series about Jango Fett getting out there in the universe trying to make a living looking for some bounty — being the Clint Eastwood of space.”
Apparently the OOT DVDs won’t be anamorphic-enhanced, whatever that means. The Digital Bits thinks this is bad news for the sales figures. I think that most folks have to plug “anamorphic enhancement” into Google just to figure out what the hell they’re talking about, so I wouldn’t be too worried. I don’t think anyone’s expecting the things to be as pimped and pampered as the 2004 releases. That’s not the point.
Speaking of the DVDs, T’bone has a varied assortment of half-baked theories and AICN weighs in.
The Orange County Star Wars Society is holding their Second Annual Star Wars Fan Day on June 25th. (via TFN)
George Lucas will be the 50th Toy Hall of Fame inductee next year. (via NerfHerdersAnonymous)
In other Lucas news, card collectors have a chance to get a one-of-a-kind card with a ‘cut signature’ from Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, or George himself.
There’s a new VIP at blogs.starwars.com: Frank Parisi, editor of the Star Wars Insider. (Well, okay, he’s been around since February. So sue me.) Anyway, today he reveals the subject of the next issue: The Sith. Sounds very interesting – I can only hope it actually reaches this subscriber in a timely manner come June.
What species is Yoda? Let’s just say you don’t want to feed him after midnight.
Yet more technicolor collage madness. I was hoping for a more straight out retro look, but I guess that’s why John Knoll gave us Photoshop.
In an interview with In Focus Magazine last year, Joss Whedon talks about what he would have done with Revenge of the Jedi. Drool. (via Binary Bonsai)
Today is George Lucas’ birthday!
David Louis Edelman follows up the ESB post I linked last week with his tale of going to see Return of the Jedi.
Pandarus writes in defence of fan fiction. Meanwhile, Hal Duncan has some thoughts on how creators and fanfic writers see the phenomenon.
Stella Belli asks who (or what) is Mary Sue?
The Dark Moose considers the curious workings of the Lucas Edit Machine and the OOT release.
Meanwhile, in the realm of VIPs…
Abel G. Pena on the art of naming Darths.
Don Bies meets Tom Cruise.
Tom ‘Uscwannabe’ Costabile still in the lead, with 227 bounties to Dustin Roberts’ 156. Tomorrow is the last day in the promotion, and it’s come to my attention that both candidates have done podcast interviews with the Star Wars En Direct. Costabile’s is available in their archives, and TFN has the direct link to a short talk with Roberts.