Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Well, the cat is out of the bag… The New Essential Guide to Alien Species is coming out later this year, and our own Helen Keier is one of the authors. Let’s raise a frothy blue cocktail to her!
Sadly, TFN is more interested in who’s doing the cover than noticing that one of their former staffers is getting her first book.
Star Wars Valentines from Something Awful. Brilliant!
Costumes from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Also, if you happen to be in or near Los Angeles in the next few months, the Fashion Insitute of Design & Merchandising is displaying costumes from several 2005 releases, including ROTS, Serenity, King Kong, The Corpse Bride, and others. (via The Daily Digest)
Vanity Fair has Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley naked on the latest cover. This is the infamous cover shoot that Rachel McAdams walked out of and really… Can you blame her? The creepy (clothed) guy that replaced her is Tom Ford, the issue’s guest editor.
Paradox now controls Robert E. Howard film rights. Come on, is the world really clamoring for more Conan?
Ewan McGregor to star as one of Hitchcock’s leading men in biopic of the director.
In the latest issue of Bantha Tracks, Union is topping the comic Top Ten list, with Tales of the Jedi trailing behind. Not being Dark Horse’s biggest fan (Tales! Tales! Damn my non-voting self!) I blame our very own Paula, who got quoted. Or maybe not. ;)
Not that Union is the worst thing DH has ever done or anything, but… well. Maybe it’s just my knee-jerk reaction to the series’ awful, awful covers. You can pander to the females without making it look like a romance novel folks – it’s okay.
That and more smushy stuff in the latest edition of Bantha Tracks.
Gus Lopez and Pam Green are geekier than you, and they have the house to prove it. (via SF Signal)
Sorry for the spotty blogging over the last few days. The Super Bowl was in Detroit and it took me hostage against my will.
But hey, at least there were zombies.
A big congratulations to the production team behind Star Wars: Clone Wars, Volume II.
They won for best Animated Television Production at the 33rd Annie Awards, presented by The International Animated Film Society.
Now there’s an R2-D2 Mr. Potato Head? It even comes with a wee hologram Potato Leia. Madness! (via Boing Boing)
