Bladerunner, A Clockwork Orange, Sin City and Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (which one?) are on The Guardian‘s list of the 50 best book adaptions. Ewan McGregor’s breakthrough film Trainspotting also made it.
Lucas on greatest screenplay list for ANH
George Lucas and Star Wars are 68th on the Writers Guild of America and Premiere magazine’s 101 Greatest Screenplays list. Casablanca was number one. Link is from Starwars.com’s Variety feed and thus available to Hyperspace members only, but the story is pretty short.
“She’s a cheerleader. You’ve seen “Star Wars” 27 times. You do the math.”
The Calgary Sun has a list of 25 shows that died too young – Freaks and Geeks, Firefly, Angel, and many other familiar shows – and the 3 that lasted too long, including the X-Files and Alias.
Screw you, Enterprise!
With blackjack! And hookers!
The 10 Best Sci-Fi films That Never Existed. The original pitch/concept for Alien 3 sounds awesome. (via Big Dumb Object)
Warning: Item contains Star Wars prequel angst, criticism of George Lucas, and swearing. Not recommended for anyone with less than +3 Fanboy Resistance.
Sith Respect
Darth Vader is one of Time magazine’s people who mattered for 2005, the only fictional character on the list.
In other honors, Revenge of the Sith has been shortlisted as a pre-nominee for the Visual Effects Oscar.
“Luke, I am your father.”
The most shocking revelation in Star Wars (at least to this generation) is #17 on Premiere’s list of the 25 Most Shocking Moments In Film History. Alien (#3) and Planet of the Apes (#18) are the other genre films that make the list.
Star Wars theme is tops
The American Film Institute has named the score for A New Hope as the greatest film score of all time. John Williams has three scores in the top 25, also including Jaws (#6) and E.T. (#14.) Rounding out the top five are the scores for Gone with the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, Psycho, and The Godfather.
Better late than never
Jango Fett and Darth Vader make Revolution Sci-Fi’s tounge-in-cheek list of the Best Dads of Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Chewbacca and Midichlorians get ‘Bad Dad’ mentions.
What say you?
AFI’s 100 Years… series continues with 100 Years, 100 Quotes.
Once again, Star Wars makes the list with Harrison Ford’s “May the Force be with you” coming in at #8.
Gone with the Wind’s “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” topped the list.
Other genre quotes:
“Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas, anymore.” at #4
“ET, phone home.” at #15
“There’s no place like home” at #23
“I’ll be back” at #37
“If you build it, he will come” at #39
“I see dead people” at #44
“It’s alive! It’s alive!” at #49
“A boy’s best friend is his mother” at #56
“Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” at #66
“Here’s Johnny!” at #68
“They’re here” at #69
“Hasta la vista, baby” at #76
“Soylent Green is people” at #77
“Open the pod bay doors, Hal” at #78
“My precious” at #85
“I’ll get you my pretty. And your little dog, too!” at #99
Those who can’t figure out which movies those quotes belong to can head to the site above.