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…well, parts of it anyway šŸ™‚

The People vs. George Lucas, Alexandre Philippe’s documentary that has won beaucoups of awards at film festivals all over the world, has just announced a whole bunch of new showings. And one of them is right next door in Winston-Salem! Beginning May 9th it’ll be playing at Cine Club on 311 West Fourth Street.

So why am I especially stoked about getting to see this rave-reviewed film? Here’s the second trailer for it…

And here’s the first teaser for The People vs. George Lucas…

That’s none other than Melody Hallman Daniel and Chad Austin from Forcery, the first film that I ever made. I’ve heard that quite a lot of clips from it wound up in The People vs. George Lucas. So I’m not only looking forward to seeing Philippe’s work, but also my own blown-up extra-huge on a ...

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…then you are missing some of the best and most daring storytelling that the Star Wars saga has enjoyed in a heap many moon!

I found myself genuinely shocked at how much I enjoyed the three-part “Nightsisters” arc which concluded a week ago this past Friday. Written by Katie Lucas (daughter of The Flanneled One himself), the storyline showed that Lucasfilm does have the willpower to not play things safe… as well as bring on some bigtime “What the…?!” moments (which if you saw the final moments of “Witches of the Mist” you know what I’m talking about). That new villain Savage Oppress is voiced by Clancy Brown (who I still think should eventually provide the voice of Darth Bane) was the sprinkles on top of a fine dessert indeed.

And then there was this past week’s episode, which featured the return of Liam Neeson as the voice of Qui-Gon ...

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Yet another entry to be filed under “Things We Don’t Really Need But Are Badly Lusting For”…

Available exclusively through the Official Star Wars Website, for $49.99 you can be the proud owner of the Death Star Cookie Jar! According to the product description…

The exclusive Death Star cookie jar is built to hold an Imperial army of your favorite cookies, and can even double as a festive ice cooler or candy bowl at your next Star Wars soiree. Made of sculpted ceramic with great detail and features a flat base to keep your Death Star from rolling off the counter. Oh, and no exposed thermal exhaust ports for hungry young rebels.

I might have to get this for Dad, to go along with the Darth Vader spatula that I got him for Christmas šŸ™‚

(Hat tip to Phillip Arthur for the great find!)...

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Had author Joe Schreiber not written Star Wars: Red Harvest, I would have been completely satisfied with his 2009 novel Death Troopers (see my review here) as a standalone story. Death Troopers was the first time that the Star Wars saga had delved into the territory of classic horror. It succeeded, and hopefully it will prove to be the first of many more endeavors to scare us with the darkness of that galaxy far, far away.

With Red Harvest, Schreiber follows up with a prequel examining the origins of the Blackwing virus: the infectious agent that turned an entire Imperial Star Destroyer into a derelict tomb packed with flesh-hungry zombies that Han Solo and Chewbacca had to blast their way through. However instead of again setting the story within the timeframe of the classic movies, Schreiber takes the readers back to the era of the Old ...

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Niall Doran, a regular reader of this blog from Down Under, e-mailed to inform me a short while ago that I was seen on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s hit show Gruen Nation last night!

Here’s Niall’s report…

As a regular browser of your blog, I was surprised to see you make an appearance on Australian television earlier tonight!

A regular part-humorous, part-analytical & highly popular program on our national broadcaster (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, or ABC) is normally called the “Gruen Transfer”, and unveils and discusses the techniques behind commercial advertising. However, we are in the final throes of a federal election, for which the “Gruen Transfer” has become the “Gruen Nation”, with a series of specials focusing on the techniques of political advertising in particular. Tonight they showed your infamous Star Wars ad, although in the comments afterwards they unfortunately didn’t raise the copyright issue that you fought

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James Luceno is a happy man: word came out a few days ago that his long-simmering Star Wars novel about Darth Plagueis is going to be published at last! Release date at the moment: February 28th, 2012.

That’s a year and a half from now, but given what we’ve gone through already to see this book happen, it ain’t so bad. Around the same time that Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was premiering in theaters five years ago, Luceno was talking in interviews about how he wanted to write a novel about Darth Plagueis: the Sith Master of Palpatine AKA Darth Sidious. Specifically, Luceno said at the time that he wanted to explore at length Plagueis’ search for the means to immortality (and how what Plagueis wanted differed from the immortality that Qui-Gon Jinn discovered). A year later it was announced that Luceno was writing ...

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…and there’s been precious little time for blogging. A shame, that, ‘cuz according to the stats this site’s readership has been increasing this summer rather than going into the usual “lull”.

For the moment, I’ll try to make up for things by posting this portrait of Chewbacca riding a giant squirrel while fighting Nazis.

I can only wish that I had the skillz to pull off an image that awesome! As it is, somebody forwarded it to me this morning, and it was too good not to share. Kudos to whoever it was who executed this startling depiction.

EDIT 4:20 a.m. 07-29-2010: That picture has become crazy popular in the past 24 hours across the Internets and The Official Star Wars Blog has tracked down the artist who created it! A dude named Tyler Edlin is responsible for it… and this was a piece originally commissioned as a wedding ...

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So I’m able to get back into blogging this evening and the perfect story lands in my lap for it…

A man dressed as Darth Vader – complete with helmet and cape but curiously camouflage pants – robbed a Chase bank in Setauket on Long Island in New York this morning. “Vader”, described as being 6’2″, brandished a handgun at the bank teller (I’m compelled to comment: “So uncivilized…”) before fleeing the premises with a drawer-full of cash.

Ummm… just, wow....

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A few days ago this blog forwarded along a story about a full-sized costume of a Covenant Elite from the Halo video games. If that didn’t stun and impress, maybe this one will…

A dude in Germany has built a costume of General Grievous from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (as well as being featured in numerous other Star Wars works of fiction). Yeah you read that right: a General Grievous getup. And it not only looks incredible but it moves incredible! Check it out!

This guy has a longer video here that has more detail of the costume.

I bet he’s gonna get slammed with requests from people to loan Grievous’ help on Star Wars fan films šŸ˜›...

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