Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Fox wasted no time releasing Family Guy: Blue Harvest – it comes out on Tuesday, in two editions – but we’re just now getting word that the Robot Chicken: Star Wars is coming to DVD. In May. Sigh.
Not that it really matters, since you can pretty much watch both specials in their entirety from certain places on the internet. Witness:
Beneath the cut, my choice for funniest Blue Harvest moment.
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Blu-Ray.com visited the THX booth at CES 2008 and rooted out this intriguing salvo in the all-but-settled format wars:
As we all know, Paramount’s deal does not cover Steven Spielberg films, and so Indy 4 is being prepped for Blu-ray Disc for release sometime late this year. Apparently, Paramount is reluctant to pony up the additional cost for the disc to be certified, so it may take George Lucas to personally step in and make it happen.
The internets are going apeshit over the news that Vader and Yoda will appear in Namco Bandai ‘s Soul Calibur IV. (Vader will appear on the Playstation 3 version, while Yoda graces the Xbox 360s.) The official site has the press release, and 1up has screen shots and a trailer.
For shame, Homer! StarWars.com’s intrepid reporter Pablo Hidalgo discovers Star Wars tidbits on (and in) The Simpson’s Movie DVD.
The in-depth tour of the Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume 2 continues at StarWars.com, getting ready for the release of this DVD set on December 18, 2007. Tired of the trenches of WWI? So are Indiana and his friend Remy!
On Disc 3: Phantom Train of Doom, Indy and Remy have been transfered to Africa, and promptly get lost on their way to their Belgian unit. Indy joins his childhood big-game hunting guide, Frederick Selous, and the 25th Frontiersman Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, in tracking down a train-mounted German artillery in the first half, and in the second half, Indy, Remy and the 25th Frontiersman capture the Thrawn-like Colonel Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck. Documentaries include profiles of Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck, Frederick Selous, and Jan Smuts.
Disc Four contains Oganga: The Giver and Taker of Life, in which Indy and Remy trek across the Congo, deal with a soldier who refuses to abandon an orphan from a village wiped out by disease, and are saved from death by Albert Schweitzer. Indy learns lessons about reverence for life from this piano-playing humanitarian, and then is forced to watch Schweitzer’s mission abandoned as the Schweitzers are expelled from Allied Africa. Documentaries cover Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer, the Congo, and the rise of pacifism.
It’s official: Family Guy’s Star Wars spoof Blue Harvest comes out on DVD January 15th, in two editions: Standard and Special Edition. Both editions feature interviews with Seth MacFarlane and George Lucas and a preview of their next spoof, tentatively titled Something, Something, Something Dark Side.
TFN has transcribed comments (reported in French) made by Rick McCallum at France’s Reunion 2 convention regarding the two TV shows and saga box set.
I wonder if we can expect any official reports on this…
Alan Tudyk told Moviehole that the new Serenity DVD is selling so well there’s been talk of a sequel. Is it just false hope for Browncoats? Who knows… But they’ll probably be out buying yet more DVDs this weekend.