Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
After eight preview chapters and a moderate amount of hype, Joe Schreiber’s Red Harvest will be in stores today. If you liked Death Troopers or have a yen for zombie Sith, you’ll no doubt be pleased. (Here are a few facts about the book.)
…And that’s it as far as releases. Goodnight, 2010!
The actress and dancer/choreographer Benjamin Millepied met during the production of Black Swan. (He also played her on-screen dance partner.) Her reps have confirmed the engagement and pregnancy with People. Congratulations to both!
Previews. They’ve finally stopped releasing Red Harvest chapters at eight. (The book comes out tomorrow.) Meanwhile, there are three chapters of The Old Republic: Deceived scattered around the internet. I suppose we’ll learn soon enough if this actually has any effects on sales.
Interviews. On that note, Paul S. Kemp talks Deceived at Darth Hater, while Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff chats with Knights Archive.
Reader. An analysis of The Jedi Path.
Also… Drew Karpyshyn has a new site.
Since Dunc won’t let him run his favorite Sithmas song, Santa Maul is instead forced to resort to non-offensive animal-laden pablum. Darth Sinterklaas will not be pleased!
For those wishing to horrify and confuse their enemies, Santa Maul presents this:
Regardless, Santa Maul wishes all a Happy Sithmas. May your slaying be easy and your spoils be plentiful.
Santa Maul has been busy sowing holiday mayhem and stealing delicious cookies from small children, but has been assured that you will enjoy this video.
The product we love to mock – the George-selected fancy screenshot set Star Wars: Frames – is finally going into production. Wired has video.
And for only $3,000! (The set was earlier reported to be priced at $5,000-$4,000.) Granted, the book does look interesting, but at that price! Ouch.
There’s still a few more releases to squeeze in before the year ends… Invasion: Rescues #6 ships on Wednesday. Star Wars Insider #122 (with Savage Opress spoilers) should also be in stores sometime this week, if you haven’t spotted it already.
According to gossip site ShowbizSpy, Harrison Ford has been lobbying George Lucas and Steven Spielberg to kill off Indy in the next installment of the series.
“Harrison thinks it would be good for Indy to die and pass on his hat to his son in the next one,” reveals an insider.
“George especially is resisting the notion but Steven is considering it. Funnily enough Harrison wanted the same for Han Solo in the final Star Wars but George put an end to it. This time he doesn’t have all the say though.”
Bogus? Maybe. It’s a little too similar to the Han Solo story for me to believe, but I wouldn’t be all that surprised either. (via)
UPDATE: A rep for Ford told the Huffington Post that the report is false. Shocking! Now back to your regularly scheduled whatever.
I’ve been running hot and cold (mostly cold) on the more recent Star Wars prints from Mondo. But the latest offerings – which go on sale later today – are pretty neat. They’re limited run and go on sale sometime today – You’ll have to keep an eye on Mondo’s Twitter to find out exactly.
UPDATE: And… Gone.
Robot Chicken Star Wars III is on tonight! The past two are some of the best professional parodies around, and this one is one of the year’s most highly anticipated events. (For this fan, anyway.) Get yourself hyped up: