Tag: star wars

My basic issue with the Wars on Kinkade series.

This is going around – basically, the artist is inserting Star Wars imagery into examples of Thomas Kinkade‘s work – and while I get the concept I have to say that I find the works  themselves to be hit-and-miss, and mostly miss. Let me show you two examples, and I’ll explain why. Continue reading My basic issue with the Wars on Kinkade series.

Billy Dee Williams to return to Star Wars?

I’m not sure that I like this trend:

Where’s Lando?

That’s what Star Wars fans have been wondering now that George Lucas has admitted that he has talked to members of the original cast, including Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford, about appearing in the upcoming sequel. But it’s not clear whether they will see the return of Billy Dee Williams, the suave actor who played Lando Calrissian, administrator of Cloud City.

Actually, I’m pretty sure that I don’t like this trend.  Then again, Disney could have just given George Lucas the equivalent of a toy hammer and let him bang on things with it while they got on with making the actual movie.

Wow. It worked! The Internet broke George Lucas!

There’ll be no living with it now.

The criticism got to Lucas. He found it difficult to be creative when people were calling him a jerk. “It was fine before the Internet,” he says. “But now with the Internet, it’s gotten very vicious and very personal. You just say, ‘Why do I need to do this?’ ”

Well, the most obvious answer there is: you don’t.  Instead, you sell your intellectual property to Disney, which has this weird idea that you’ll sell more product if you produce product that people want to buy.

I… don’t know where I stand on this.

‘This’ being the problem that there are two franchises, and only one JJ Abrams.

See, I don’t know which side I identify with more, because it depends on circumstances.  I watched both Star Wars and Star Trek.  I read the ST books, not the SW ones.  I play the SW video games, not the ST ones.  I know the back-story to ST better than I do SW; I know how to roleplay a SW character better than I know how to roleplay a ST one.  I’m torn even when it comes to the franchises themselves: I love the ST reboot because it’s deliberately evocative of TOS, but SW desperately needs a reboot, if not a a finger-down-the-throat purge.

It’s a puzzler.

DARTH MOUSE DECREES: No more 3-D Star Wars for you!

You are not worthy of such a boon!

…You know: between this, JJ Abrams being tapped for directing the new trilogy, and Disney bringing in Lawrence Kasdan and Michael Arndt to do the writing… all f*cking hail selling out to the Mouse.  Lucas should have took the money and run YEARS ago.

Via AoSHQ.

JJ Abrams to direct Star Wars VII.

I predict three things:

  1. There is going to be a tremendous amount of bitching, moaning, whining, yelling, thoughtless ranting, thoughtful ranting, justifiable complaints, baseless complaints, and pretty much an open state of kanly among the science fiction community over every. Single. Scrap of news that comes out between now and opening night.
  2. We’re all going to be there opening night anyway.
  3. Sometimes between now and then, JJ Abrams will get caught – seriously, he keeps trying to keep a lid on it, publicity-wise – doing something very decent for somebody wrt access to his Star Wars movie.

Moe Lane

PS: Reading the stories on this… dammit, Cloverfield deserves more love.  I had fun watching that flick; I always wanted to know what it was like to have a worm’s eye view of a Godzilla attack.

DAMMIT.

Bad news.

Director Zack Snyder has come forward to deny a report claiming he’s journeying to a galaxy far, far away.

New York magazine’s Vulture blog reported Monday that Snyder, the director behind 300, Watchmen and the upcoming Man of Steel, is developing a Star Wars movie. According to the site, the feature would not be part of the planned numbered trilogy but would be an off-shoot tonally in the vein of the Japanese classic The Seven Samurai.

But in an exclusive statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Snyder’s spokesperson says: “While he is super-flattered because he is a huge fan, Zack is not involved in any way with the new Star Wars. He is currently in post on his two films, Man of Steel and 300: Battle of Artemisia.”

Via Constant Reader Canthros.  It’s not his fault.