Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Muppet troopers patrol the #StarWarsVII casting call line outside Troy's Somerset Inn. (Pic: Brandy Baker) pic.twitter.com/hnlt8eDvjN
— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) November 17, 2013
The open call outside of Detroit – attended by Muppet Troopers! – was covered by The Detroit News, Free Press, The Oakland Press, and WWJ. But it seems like the U.K. Press has cooled a little – the Manchester call only appeared in The Manchester Evening News and Metro.
We’ve got a handful of reports out of yesterday’s open call in Chicago: DNAInfo, NBC Chicago, WBBM, WGN and WTVY.
The next set of calls are in suburban Detroit and Manchester this weekend.
https://twitter.com/bad_robot/status/401077191087095808
Exciting developments! And questions: Does this make Artoo the first confirmed cast member of Episode VII? Who are the other two guys? Is Artoo now officially a bad robot? Speak amongst yourselves
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Impromptu tweet roundup below the cut!
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In the U.S., there’s an open call today in Chicago at the Park West Theatre. Yesterday, Maryellen Aviano of the casting team shared some tips with WGN News. On Sunday, they’ll be in Troy, Michigan, at the Somerset Inn.
U.K. hopefuls: The Manchester auditions have been moved to the Lancashire County Club at Emirates Old Trafford. New venues are also coming for the London and Dublin (both Nov. 23/24) events, and don’t forget that Glasgow has been rescheduled for a later weekend.
Flashback. Our second retro Return of the Jedi teaser trailer – or the first, if you don’t count Revenge of the Jedi.
Episode VII: David Oyelowo addresses the Star Wars rumors with E!. “The breaking news is J.J. Abrams is going to give you that breaking news,” he said. But… “I’d go anywhere to work with J.J. Abrams. I think what he did with Star Trek was so extraordinary… And I think what he’ll do with Star Wars will be just as impressive.”
Podcasts. Teresa Delgado and Tricia Barr are the latest on the scene with Fangirls Going Rogue. Their first episode, live now, features The Clone Wars’ Catherine Taber.
Well it certainly seems like the Episode VII open call has been a big hit in at least two ways – massive publicity and the sheer numbers showing up. The two parts have been listed on Backstage and the Glasgow event has been moved back two weeks due to a lack of room at the original venue. And of course, there’s always online.
Meanwhile, Bonnie Burton hits up James Arnold Taylor, Daniel Logan and more for audition advice, and Jedi News talks to a ‘Rachel’ hopeful.
Disney. The Orlando Business Journal’s Jim Carchidi looks into a few ways that Disney will profit from the Star Wars delay. Because people will go see Star Wars at any time?
Podcasts. There’s a new episode of Full of Sith out today, with Bryan and Bobby talking about the week’s developments.
Auditions. Jedi News talked to one of the ‘Thomas’ hopefuls.
The old boss. George Lucas has lots of big-name San Francisco support for his museum, Mashable reports.
This again. With Star Wars in the news again, I’m surprised it took so long before we got another look at Jedi religion, this time from Details.
http://twitter.com/four_eels/status/398569906532151296
Last week was bonkers for Star Wars fans. We got the Episode VII release date, open call auditions and all the attendant gloating, freaking out and Holiday Special jokes. So many Holiday Special jokes
Continue reading “Bad moon rising: Best #StarWars and #EpisodeVII tweets for Nov. 4-10”
The U.S. version of the open casting call is now accepting audition videos.
Star Wars Underworld has a source who reports that a three-year deal has been signed with Disney for Episode VII to shoot in New Mexico. A production office will open there in January.
We’ve had a variety of rumors taking New Mexico in and out of the equation for the film. The state was first rumored to be a location by local blog Sindication. They still maintain that it’s happening, so there’s plenty of smoke here… But is there any fire? Stay tuned… If there really is a deal in place, we could conceivably hear something soon.