Celebration V is happening today and George Lucas used the gathering of Star Wars fans to announce the impending release of Star Wars on Blu-ray. All six movies will be released in high-def, all at once, in fall of 2011.
But more importantly the new Blu-ray box set will contain never before seen, lost footage from the original Star Wars trilogy. During the event Lucas showed off one of the moments they’ll include, a scene in which Luke Skywalker constructs his own lightsaber before going off to save Han Solo at Jabba’s palace.
If you’re quick, you won’t have to wait for the DVD to see it. The entire scene has leaked online, and it’s every bit as cool as you’d expect. Here it is, watch it while it lasts:
UPDATE! It seems the entire thing may be a fraud. Details here.
Sure she wore the gold bikini, but apparently that was as close as Carrie Fisher got to wearing a bra in Star Wars. Blastr caught up with the aging Princess Leia who’s putting on a one woman show in which she tells weird stories. The way she tells it, Lucas wouldn’t let her wear a bra during shooting. Why? Believe it or not he actually had a completely nerdy, scientific reason for it. Here’s how Fisher says Lucas explained it:
He explained that in space you get weightless, and so your flesh expands. What? But your bra doesn’t, so you get strangled by your bra. That’s why I couldn’t wear a bra in the first Star Wars. George actually came backstage when I did the show in San Francisco and told me that.
Is that true? If so, does that mean female astronauts wear no underwear? I guess this means my fantasy of rocketing across the Milky Way with corseted space-babes will never come true.
It was a lot of fun the first two or three times Robot Chicken and Family Guy did it, but really guys, this animated remaking of Star Wars movies is starting to feel kind of old. Yet they’re at it again, or at least Robot Chicken is. If form holds, Family Guy is sure to follow eventually, especially the way those Blue Harvest DVDs sold.
For now though, it’s all Robot Chicken. Adult Swim has announced that Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III is on the way. It’s the third installment in their highly rated series of Star Wars themed specials. They’ve done so well in fact, that they’ve landed a big name to voice Anakin Skywalker. Zac Efron (a closet sci-fi geek) is on board to whine his way through the character. The rest of the cast from the previous installments returns, and that means actual Star Wars actors voicing their characters. In particular, Billy Dee Williams and Ahmed Best will voice their characters. read this entry »
First the good news. Someone has actually created a working lightsaber… sort of. Wicked Lasers has developed what amounts to a turbo-charged laser pointer which emits a bright, bright blue beam powerful enough to burn. Like any real lightsaber would be, this thing is crazy dangerous. Take a look: read this entry »
Yeah I know, taking Star Wars stuff and re-imagining it in a different setting is by now, long, long past effed out. But I’m a sucker for dressing Boba Fett up amusing costumes and that’s my excuse for bothering with this.
WFD has posted a series of images in which they re-imagine Star Wars characters as Victorian era gunfighters. You really can’t go wrong with a wookie in a monacle. Here are my two favorites, they have more.
As described by TIFR:
The Bacon AT-AT stands 3 ft tall and is made with over 40 lbs of bacon. The body was made from foam, then the bacon was attached. This beast took 21 non-stop hours to build. If you’ve ever once thought to cook 40 lbs of bacon in your kitchen in one sitting, I can now personally advise against it.
Those of you hoping Lucas might finally get around to making that live-action, prime-time, Jedi-focused Star Wars series he’s been promising for the past fives years are yet again completely out of luck. Instead Lucasfilm announced today that they’re doing yet another Star Wars animated series, only this time it’ll be a comedy.
Star Wars comedy may seem kind of lame but it’s the guys from Robot Chicken, Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, who are making it. Robot Chicken has already done more than its fair share of mining comedy from the Star Wars universe, putting these guys in charge is a stroke of genius. Also involved is The Daily Show’s Brendan Hay, and the series will be produced by Daytime Emmy and Gemini Award-winner Jennifer Hill while being directed by Emmy-nominated Todd Grimes. read this entry »
There’s a documentary floating around the festival circuit right now called The People vs. George Lucas which attempts to bring closure to the Star Wars issue which has plagued us all since Lucas ruined A New Hope by revising it to have Greedo shoot first. People vs. George makes a valiant attempt at wrapping it all up, but never quite gets there, in part because it can’t find the nerve necessary to truly take a stand.
Enter RedLetterMedia, a company which has been releasing a series of extremely bizarre yet brilliantly perfect, in-depth reviews of the Star Wars prequels. A few months ago they did The Phantom Menace but now they’ve topped themselves by taking on Attack of the Clones. Yet the nine videos you’ll see included in this post are more than just an in-depth and occasionally creepy analysis of one failed Star Wars prequel. Amidst all of that they manage to sum up everything that was great and beautiful about Star Wars, while mourning the way one man has ruined it. It makes no excuses, it lays things out as they really are. The last video in particular, if you’re a fan of Star Wars or just a fan of great movies, will bring a tear to your eye.
It’s worth watching all 90-minutes. Use the force, push play, and find the closure Star Wars fans need. read this entry »
College Humor has put together a song parody so good, Weird Al Yankovic would be jealous. The following video uses Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind”, which it retitles “Galactic Empire State Of Mind” and then rewrites to tell the entire story of Star Wars, complete with breakdancing Stormtroopers, Leia working it in her gold bikini, and Chewie grooving while Darth Vader lays it all out. Watch: read this entry »