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Video Monday

What if Quentin Tarantino made Lord of the Rings? Orodruin Dogs, Ring Fiction, Natural Born Orcs, and White City. Not as good as Star Wars Pulp Fiction, but still pretty damn funny.

Bill Moyers’ interview with George Lucas from The Mythology of Star Wars TV special, in four three parts: 1, 3, 4. I’m not sure where part 2 went, if it was ever there at all.

James Michael Tyler talks to Jonathan Rinzler about The Art of Revenge of the Sith and The Making of, as well as Matthew Stover about the ROTS novelization and James Luceno about Dark Lord.

Screw that, have more funny

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News in Brief

Ground was broken yesterday at the future Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial at the National Mall in D.C.. George Lucas donated $1 million to the memorial.

Basil Poledouris, film composer who did the music for Starship Troopers, RoboCop, and Conan and a classmate of George Lucas at USC, passed away last week. Watch a video tribute at Youtube.

Fans are big on spin-off novels. Shocking! However – Star Trek and Lost I can understand, but do CSI novels really sell better than Star Wars, as the article insinuates?

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The neverending development of Indy IV

Frank Darabont says George Lucas nixed his script:

[Spielberg] was ecstatic with the result and was ready to shoot it two years ago. He was very, very happy with the script and said it was the best draft of anything since Raiders of the Lost Ark. That’s really high praise and gave me a real sense of accomplishment, especially when you love the material you’re working on as much as I love the Indiana Jones films.

And then you have George Lucas read it and say, ‘Yeah, I don’t think so, I don’t like it.’ And then he resets it to zero when Spielberg is ready to shoot it that coming year, [which] is a real kick to the nuts. You can only waste so much time and so many years of your life on experiences like that, you can only get so emotionally invested and have the rug pulled out from under you before you say enough of that.