Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
More on George Lucas’ AFI Lifetime Achievement Award from USA Today and E! Online. Don’t forget you can see it yourself on June 20th.
The fandom, of course, is going nuts over this tidbit:
Ford was approached by Daniel Logan, 18, who played young Boba Fett in Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Lucas said Logan’s character may be included in his live-action Star Wars TV series, which is in the works.
I remain perplexed, but better Fett than nobody!
Matt Stover’s the subject of this brief article. Not too much new here, but it’s good to see that he’s still getting local press coverage.
Finally… someone who understands us! Todd Seavey has written a brilliant (and hilarious) article on the need of sci-fi geeks to spackle our universe(s).
For example:
Yet sometimes the editors and writers responsible for such series barely care about maintaining continuity, so busy are they with more mundane tasks such as writing entertaining dialogue and coming up with interesting new characters. That is why such universes desperately need the obsessive, crank-like fan, the fan willing to concoct rationalizations that make sense of the apparent continuity errors. Indeed, without such fans, I question whether the continuity of these universes could be maintained at all. The fate of entire fictional worlds, the very cohesion of the space-time continuum, hinges on the selfless efforts of fans like myself to keep track of what the hell is going on and explain the slip-ups by the so-called “professionals!”
And:
If Scotty witnesses Captain Kirk’s death at the beginning of Star Trek VII, it is extremely troubling to some of us—those who care, those who have intellectual integrity and the discipline of logic!—if Scotty is awakened from suspended animation approximately seventy years later in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation and asks whether Captain Kirk is still alive. Scotty should know that Kirk isn’t! Something is wrong! It doesn’t add up—yet it must! It must!
There is also some wonderful stuff about Star Wars. Go read. What are you waiting for? Todd Seavey, we salute you!
Thanks to Michelle for the head’s up on this gem!
At the AFI Lifetime Achievement award presentation. Really. Like we could make this up.
William Shatner — Capt. Kirk from another great space saga, “Star Trek” — offered a musical number “from one star voyager to another.” He performed a variation of “My Way,” telling Lucas “you did it your way” while dancers in “Star Wars” stormtrooper costumes did a chorus line routine.
Thanks to Jessa for the head’s up!
Edit: The AFI show honouring Lucas will air June 20 on the USA Network.
Tiny adorable comic strips at the i <3th darth adventure. Cute and evil, two great tastes that taste great together.
And it’s Brett Ratner. Who? He did Rush Hour. Did anyone here actually see Rush Hour? Anyone?
Yeah. That’s hopeful. There’s an interview over at MTV, if you’re curious:
Ratner insists that the “X-Men 3” script is up to snuff, that production will commence in Vancouver, British Columbia, in eight weeks, and that series stars Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, James Marsden and Rebecca Romijn will return. As for what he’ll add to the successful Singer recipe, the director said, “I want to stay true to the franchise and true to the characters, but I think it’s elevated … I don’t want to be pompous and say I’m going to take it to the next level. I think the script that Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn wrote gives me a tremendous amount of confidence.”
He also said you can expect his X-Men to have an enhanced sense of humor. “Not jokes for the sake of jokes,” Ratner added, “jokes that come from character humor, that come from characters and that come from the situations.”
He also reveals that Singer left not because of the lure of Superman, but because he didn’t like the script.
The news bombs are dropping fast now, and the Movie Blog has some tidbits.
But really, we’ll just have to wait and see. Bad cynic.
Other superhero film news shamelessly culled from The Movie Blog:
– Batman Begins reviews coming in.
– Producers of Smallville visit set of Singer’s Superman.
– J. Michael Straczynski likes the V for Vendetta script.
– Fantastic Four stars signed for sequels.
Variety has a George Lucas tribute section today, since he’s getting a AFI Lifetime achievement award. (via TFN.)
On blogs.starwars.com, Halagad, aka Abel G. Pena, digs into GFFA linguistics with a look at Star Wars swear words.
National Geographic looks at how scientifically feasible the Star Wars galaxy is. As usual, the answer is “not very”, but it’s interesting (and educational!) to wonder.
TrekToday reports that Babylon 5‘s J. Michael Straczynski has spoken to Paramount executives about a Battlestar Galactica-style “reboot” of the classic series. Paramount is sticking firm on giving the Trek franchise a rest, but it’s an interesting possibility, seeing as Trek was never quite the total crap that the original BSG was. And didn’t TNG basically serve the same purpose as a reboot?
Still, the concept of Straczynski running Star Trek, any Star Trek, is enough to keep the fanboys awake at night.