Pete Vilmur interviews the prolific artist about his work for Indiana Jones franchise.
New posters for Indy IV and The Clone Wars
USAToday reveals a new Struzan poster for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, while IESB caught The Clone Wars poster at ShoWest.
ETA: You can purchase the Indy poster now at Star Wars Shop.
The fandom minute
- Interview: Lightsabre talks to Kenneth Colley, who played Admiral Piett.
- Gaming: io9 brings us a brief history of Star Wars video games.
- Fan art: Photo mosaic of the Star Wars/Last Supper painting.
- YTMND: Can Luke get anything right?
It came from Japan: Dark Nest covers and more
For the third (final?) look at Japanese book covers, StarWars.com features the Clone Wars, Dark Nest, Jedi Quest and Last of the Jedi series.
It came from Japan: NJO book covers
StarWars.com gets into the meat of the Japanese books covers with the New Jedi Order. These covers have developed quite a following among EU fans for their depiction of the large cast, many of whom have (or had) few reference images before this. (Above: Force Heretic I: Remnant.)
Hopefully there’s a part III, but you can see the Dark Nest covers here for now.
It came from Japan: Book covers
StarWars.com features their first set of Japanese book covers with the movie adaptions and early EU. (Above: The Krytos Trap.)
Eye Candy: Annie Leibovitz’s Star Wars
This has clearly been around for a while, and we probably already linked it back in 2005, but what the hell: Vanity Fair’s Star Wars photo album, containing almost all the fantastic Annie Leibovitz prequel set photos.
The Clone Wars: Yoda concept art
StarWars.com serves up this Yoda study for the upcoming movie/tv series.
In other Clone Wars linkage, surf over to Deadbolt for 4 Things to Expect from The Clone Wars TV Show (and 3 Things Not To.)
“KOTOR III concept art,” the continuing story
Remember the supposed ‘KOTOR III’ images? Here’s what artist James Zhang told EUCantina:
“I’ve never used photobucket — those images were swiped off a private folder on my website, and certainly weren’t intended for public use.”
and
“I can’t really comment on anything regarding the images.”
I’ve been hearing some rumblings – nothing verifiable, and quite possibly simple fan speculation – that a KOTOR III was at one point being considered, but was dropped/postponed for The Force Unleashed, something a lot of the GDC stories last week support. I wouldn’t give up hope for future installments, but don’t certainly lose sleep over it.
Kenner + Hasbro = Art?
Photographers Andrea Robbins and Max Becher have a gallery show at the University of Maryland Baltimore County of photographs including their “Figures” series, which pairs a Kenner SW figure with a corresponding Hasbro figure. A Washington Post reviewer thinks that “recent figures boast six-packs, bulging biceps and narrower waists. Both their femininity and masculinity have ballooned.” I’m not sure that we can blame the 90’s for this; after all, the 70’s brought us the Brothers Hildebrandt.
So are action figures modern art? Decide for yourself at the artists’ site ; scroll down to the Figures link on the left.