Odd, I would have picked Yoda as more of the gardening type…
Links to (get) chew(ie) on
Club Jade’s own Bad Methodist explores the personal, political, and spiritual fall of Anakin Skywalker.
In the press, USA Today goes to Lucasfilm for answers to some of the questions raised by Revenge of the Sith, while The Christian Science Monitor profiles Charles Ross and The One-Man Star Wars Trilogy.
There’s a new daily newsletter for the ever-expanding Star Wars fandom on Livejournal. Jedi News is a daily roundup of icons, fanfic, essays, and other links of interest in much the same vein as the Harry Potter fandom’s Daily Snitch.
SF Site reviews The Dharma of Star Wars, but says that the Star Wars content is slim. On a similar note, Star Wars And Philosophy gets a much better review over at Saga Journal.
X-Men 3 leaderless yet again..
Big fannish news of the day is that Matthew Vaughn has dropped out of the third X-Men film, which was set to start filming next month. Bet Twentieth Century Fox is wishing they’d had gone with Joss Whedon now…
Four Times the Ewan!
It’s the dream of Ewan worshippers everywhere! No, Obi-Wan hasn’t fallen victim to the Kaminoans. But there will be four roles for Ewan McGregor in his upcoming film.
Empire Online notes a couple of links to Star Wars in this:
Sir Alec Guinness (who was old Obi-Wan to Ewan’s Young Obi-Wan, of course) played multiple roles in some of his Ealing comedies.
And the screenwriter is the same one who wrote Local Hero starring Denis Lawson who is, of course, the uncle of Ewan McGregor and who also played Wedge (Wedge!) in the Classic Trilogy.
Star Wars causes all sorts of incestuousness, doesn’t it?
Pirates and Clones!
With all the fervor over ROTS it’s easy to forget other movies to be excited about.
The trailer for Ewan McGregor’s next movie — “The Island” — is now available online. It’s different than the one that’s been playing before some showings of ROTS.
And Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley recently talked about the sequels to “Pirates of the Caribbean.” Spoilers, ahoy.
It’s a go!!
It’s official… Live 8 is a go!
Bob Geldof has unveiled plans for a repeat of 1985’s Live Aid concert, called Live 8, to highlight the ongoing problem of global poverty and debt.
The free event will be held in London’s Hyde Park on 2 July with concerts in Philadelphia, Paris, Rome and Berlin.
Among the featured acts will be U2, Duran Duran, Coldplay, REM, Velvet Revolver, Bob Geldof, The Killers, The Dave Matthews Band, Sarah McLachlan, Stereophonics, and the Kaiser Chiefs.
Complete lists (so far) by venue here.
Is it 2 July yet?
Aren’t we glad he stayed with SW?
Well, he may have stopped writing music for Harry Potter, but John Williams still has the magic.
Congratulations to Mr. Williams for winning 8 slots on the ClassicFM list of Top40 Movie Soundtracks!
Star Wars was kept from the top spot by Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings soundtrack, but that’s a worthy man to take it from him.
Congratulations, Mr. Williams!
Box Office Report
I don’t think it’s a surprise to anyone that Sith is #1 for the holiday weekend, beating Adam Sandler and some CGI animal flick.
Better half than none
Remember George R.R. Martin‘s A Song of Ice and Fire series? Well… A Feast for Crows is done. Sort of.
Upbeat on Indy 4
Variety reports that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have approved Jeff Nathanson’s script for the fourth Indiana Jones movie. (via Coming Soon)