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..with some newly emerged details about the STAR WARS television series we’ve been hearing about. I’m referring to the live action project…which’ll come around AFTER the upcoming CGI series.
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Hey folks, Harry here... this isn't important news... not to most of the world. This isn't something of earth-shattering importance... but to some of us, it's a sign. A sign that perhaps the great one is remembering the way it was and should always have been. At the link below comes a papparazzi-esque shot of George Lucas. Now, 99 out of a 100 times, I would completely fucking ignore this - but dammit - for 10 years now we, the faithful, have held desperately to the belief that HAN SHOT FIRST. And George Lucas - magnificent badass bastard that he is... has tried to convince us otherwise... Yet here... on the set of INDY 4 - he's caught wearing a shirt proclaiming HAN SHOT FIRST!
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Hey folks, Harry here - Well STAR WARS is 30 years and a day old... and this morning, for Moriarty's 40th Birthday - we have a present for him. The first trailer for the STAR WARS ANIMATED SERIES - TALES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC. Now - this is cool - but it also seems stiff and floaty - like none of the characters have any weight to them. That said - when Thrawn showed up - I jizzed like Forrest sitting with Jenny. It was AWESOME! Here check it out for yourself - and wish Moriarty a happy 40th!
Harry here - I'm about 99.999999% sure that this isn't official. If it is official - wow they need to work on it. If it is fan made - nice work, but you're still not all the way there... though I love the Thrawn - a lot.
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Hey folks, Harry here -- Various folks have been contacting me to comment upon STAR WARS' 30th Anniversary.
Hey - I love STAR WARS. Watching the original film makes me tear up and remember playing with those toys when my favorite landscape was a rug to wallow on and make laser noises non-stop. Merrick's piece pretty much nails it. I saw that same image in STARLOG and also couldn't read the text around it. I was at San Diego when that trailer debuted... and my father managed to get a copy of it in 16mm and we watched it countless times before the film ever came out.
But the best thing about STAR WARS isn't the light sabers, the score, the actors or the space ships. It's not what George Lucas wrote. It's the Audience that was watching, listening and dreaming. STAR WARS is a glue that binds us, its audience - wherever we may be. When you meet someone in that age range that saw the films on their initial runs... you can have that conversation. It's a given. It's there to talk about. It doesn't require you to dress up or to swing Master Replicas at one another. It's just something that you can share and geek out about. And it's always a great conversation.
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This was the first image I remember seeing from a movie called STAR WARS.
I believe I saw it in a very early issue of Starlog which, unless I’m mistaken, hit the stands before any footage from the film made it’s way to theater screens. I didn’t read much back then…seemed like too much trouble, and I often didn’t understand the words…so I had no clue what the article wrapped around the artwork actually said. But I understood this image. With no context whatsoever, I understood this image. It was a window into a universe which seemed vaguely familiar (and somehow comfortable) to me, even though I’d never seen it painted quite like this.
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Merrick here...
A few months back, scifi.com launched a feature which enabled users to assemble their own BATTLESTAR GALACTICA movies by mixing home-made material with visual effects and music content from the series (provided through the site).
When this happened, I thought it would be exceedingly fun if Lucas and his minions did the same thing for STAR WARS. I mean, there are a ton of cool fan movies out there (some of them surprisingly well done). And, presumably, there are an infinite number of folks (like myself) who'd like to goof around with making a STAR WARS film of their own...but lack resolve, resources, or both (like myself).
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I am – Hercules!!
Actor-writer-director Seth Green has concocted “Robot Chicken: Star Wars,” a 30-minute stop-motion animated Cartoon Network special which mocks scenes from the movie franchise.
Green made it in collaboration with LucasFilm.
He got George Lucas to play himself and Mark Hamill to play Luke Skywalker.
It premieres June 17 at 10 p.m.
Others lending their voices to the project include Conan O'Brien, Robert Smigel, Malcolm McDowell, Hulk Hogan, James Van Der Beek, Donald Faison, Abraham Benrubi and Joey Fatone.
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
I’m currently reading the upcoming hardcover release, THE MAKING OF STAR WARS, and before you think you know everything the book might contain... you don’t. I’ll be reviewing it soon, but it’s the single best source I’ve ever read for the real story of how George Lucas’s seminal SF film came together.
The influence of that film is still obviously felt throughout fandom, and we’ve got a review here for a documentary about some fans who live and breathe it every day. Check this out:
Heart of an Empire
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Merrick here...
…with a tidbit about music for one of the (2 or 3 - depending on who you talk to) new STAR WARS television projects currently in development.
I’m presuming TK863 is referring to the CGI CLONE WARS series in the message below – as recent indications…uh…indicate that that the much-discussed live action series is still quite a ways off (with the possibility of another SW series coming about before the live action series).
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
I don’t know who this guy is, and normally I don’t run stuff like this, but I am so amazed and so entertained by his work that I have to share a link with you guys.
This one showed in my inbox today from “The Yattering,” an old school talkbacker and friend of mine, and it was just a simple link to a guy’s blog. On that blog were... well... they’re almost impossible to describe. I could, but it would ruin all the fun.
Suffice it to say that I would pay to see this version of the films, and I love the way the iconography of STAR WARS is so potent that you can bend it even as far as this guy does, and it still retains something of its essence.
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I am – Hercules!!
George Lucas came to the Museum of Television and Radio’s William S. Paley Festival Saturday night. The first 90 minutes of the two-hour event were devoted to “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” and Lucas’ efforts to bring that series to DVD with accompanying documentaries and study guides.
There was interest in the project, but the crowd was clearly hungering also for details on the upcoming “Star Wars” TV projects.
They didn’t get a lot. Lucas spoke briefly of the upcoming animated “3D” “Clone Wars” series, describing the Cartoon Network’s earlier series of “Clone Wars” shorts as “a test.”
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Which movies does Herc want to see most in HD?? The “Star Wars” movies. HD makes even the horrible Episode I tolerable.
They all come to HD for the first time ever at midnight and run 14 hours until 2 p.m. Saturday. Then they run all six again, from 2 p.m. Saturday till 3:30 a.m. Sunday.
But remember!! Do not watch them in the order Cinemax shows them. If you must watch all six, this is the correct sequence in which you are required to watch them:
Episode IV: A New Hope
Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Episode I: The Phantom Menace
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