Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Now they’ve posted an interview with Harrison Ford. They touch briefly on Star Wars and Han Solo, but nothing we haven’t heard before.
Entertainment Weekly is coming out with its Summer Movie Preview this week, and it’s not too big of a surprise that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull made the cover. And they also sat down with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg to talk about Indy, Cate Blanchett’s overwhelming awesomeness, filmmaking, and all the other stuff you expect them to address, like Will Ferrell and Steve Carrell.
And thankfully, after an interview or two full of doom and gloom, George has found his sense of humor again. Phew.
There are scans of a Total Film interview with George Lucas over at MillenniumFalcon.com. They hit all the standards, including Indy IV, The Clone Wars and the live action series. At one point, George says “People live in the Empire, but you don’t see Stormtroopers.” A departure indeed… There’s also an interesting bit about the EU, George’s “three pillars of Star Wars.” Nothing terribly surprising, but we’re still at the point where any crumb is thrilling.
Lightsabre interviews costume designer John Mollo, who worked on A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, among many others you might recognize.
Fanforce Portugal has an interview with Dark Horse’s Randy Stradley, grand poobah of their Star Wars line. Revealed: Dark Times and Rebellion are going on hiatus after Vector for the two The Clone Wars tie-ins, one a standard comic and the other one in the Clone Wars Adventures digest. (Knights of the Old Republic and Legacy will remain.) He also talks about the rest of the line, fan feedback, and Chewbacca’s death.
Home Media magazine has a quick video Q&A with Lucasfilm fan relations guru Steve Sansweet from the Wizard World Los Angeles convention earlier in the month. Steve talks about the Star Wars box set, Indy IV and Blu-Ray. (via)
Unlike what I feared (was I the only one?), Simon Pegg claims he is staying true to James Doohan‘s version of Scotty for the upcoming JJ Abrams Trek film.
They finished filming next week, with Pegg signed on for possibly three more films.
We’ll see….