After doing more to make people afraid of surgery than any newspaper scandal in Awake, Hayden Christensen‘s new movie Jumper is trying to get even more buzz going with a new trailer.
Star Wars in the news
- Looks like the Toronto lightsaber fight was a hit!
- The New York Jedi made an appeance at last weekend’s Big Apple Comic Book Convention.
- George Lucas among those who spoke up for Oz Munchkins after they were denied star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- Video: Hayden Christensen’s appearance on The View. He’s promoting his latest film, Awake.
The catchup: Wednesday morning reading list
IN THE NEWS
- Discovery declared safe for re-entry.
- George Lucas received the Irving M. Levin award earlier this week. We’ve known about the award for some time, but hardcore Lucas-watchers will appreciate this report from the event.
- Fractal Matter posts the second part of their Rick McCallum interview.
- Video: Buckingham Palace greets Saudi king with the Imperial March. Snicker.
FANDOM
- TK-7602’s step-by-step on the making of the Jabba puppet. Hey, you never know when you’re going to need a crime lord.
- Brad Pitt and Maddox Jolie-Pitt had a Star Wars Halloween.
- Mad offices home to Star Wars pinball machine.
PEOPLE
- Carrie Fisher’s 30 Rock appearance is now online.
- Hayden Christensen signs on to Beast of Bataan, while Natalie Portman now has a two-year production deal.
- The Void interviews Dave Prowse.
GEAR
- Merchandise: Star Wars ‘costume’ t-shirts at Urban Outfitters Folks, this really will not make you cool. No, it won’t.
- This wee felt Leia pin (among others) might, though.
ONE FOR THE ROAD
- Top ten other things that Han shot that didn’t shoot at him first. Warning: Bitter fanboy. But a mildly amusing bitter fanboy!
Annie? My goodness you’ve grown.
Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen in Episode II: Attack of the Clones have been voted as having the least convincing chemistry of on-screen couples by film fans.
No way! With dialog like, “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and irritating and it gets everywhere. Everything here is soft and smooth,” who could believe that? I bet ladies everywhere are waiting for guys to use that line on them.
Sam falls to the Dark Side
Samuel L. Jackson (Mace Windu) reports that he rather enjoyed playing the baddie in his new film Jumpers.
He’s in the movie with a familiar face, Mr. Dark Side himself, Hayden Christensen.
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
- Matthew ‘General Grievous’ Wood and Warwick Davis sing a classic Disney song.
- Hayden Christensen on MTV’s TRL.
- Budweiser Star Wars. I’m sorry.
- To continue tonight’s slide into cheesiness, a Jeff Foxworthy/Star Wars mashup. Really, very, very sorry.
- Okay, okay, here’s something that will only make you cringe a little: 1977 cast interview on The Today Show.
Hayden in another trilogy
I guess trilogies are guaranteed employment for an actor. Hopefully Hayden Christensen sees this as a good thing. His latest movie Jumper (co-starring another Star Wars alum, Samuel L. Jackson) is going to be a trilogy.
While we were drinking…
Here’s some of what’s been going on in the outside world.
Revenge of the Sith won two DVD awards. Also on the official site, November 2006 Comics.
Speaking of comics, don’t bother looking for Legacy #3 in stores. It was supposed to come out today (the schedule even said so until this morning) but it’s… not. Word on the boards is that last week’s books didn’t ship either. (I don’t know: I only buy Legacy.) Dark Horse isn’t the only one: Something is rotten in the comics industry.
“May the force be with you” tops online quote poll. And I don’t think TFN linked the poll, which means it might actually have won fair and square. Cool.
Some new Star Wars miniatures debuted at GenCon. The set includes a “Mystral” Shadow Guard, but unless they came with booze and/or naked men, I don’t think any of us noticed. Also, it seems they’re restarting the RPG.
Colleen Doran witnesses The Fan From Hell. I think we’ve found one that beats the Woodtick, folks.
Those damn Harry Potter plagiarists made it all the way up the fannish blog chain to John Scalzi. Twice.
Other stuff I would have blogged:
– NASA has misplaced the original moon landing tapes. Our tax dollars at work!
– Daniel Radcliffe is down with Harry Potter dying.
– Crazy mofo has “temporary” Wolverine piercing. My hand hurts just looking at it.
– Hayden Christensen making some movie.
– Things writers have no control over. (Add to the list: Killing Chewbacca.)
– The Top 8 Shows For SF Myth Busters.
– 11 Things in Fantasy/That I Don’t Promise Not to Use (or Keep Using) in My Writing and 6 More Things I Could do Without in Fantastic Literature & I don’t plan to use except to make fun of.
Things learned from 10 years of JadeCon
- Don’t light sparklers in a gazebo when it’s raining.
- Don’t duct-tape decorations to the suite walls.
- Don’t tell the Darksiders you’re hungry.
- Don’t put marzipan in Jello.
- Do not, under any circumstances, substitute tequila for vodka.
- No matter how much alcohol you’ve had, never let Yav duct tape a padawan braid to your hair.
- When meeting a fellow Jader for the first time, you can just tell.
- When Jessa asks for ice, darn it, you shlep the ice. (Karrdes only.)
- If you see a CJer doing something that you know cannot possibly turn out well… Get a camera.
- What happens at JadeCon, stays at JadeCon. Unless Dunc blogs it.
- Invoke the name.
- It really sucks putting your hands down Hayden’s shirt.
- It’s always those damn Harry Potter plagiarists’ fault.
LOLtastic Quote of the Day
“The man who played Anakin Beefstroker was actually better than Hayden Christensen.” – Stephen Colbert, while discussing the (fake) porno Sperm Wars II: Attack of the Bones on his show.