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SW.com had a zombie theme this week with different artists creating zombie SW art. Matt Busch hit it out of the park by turning the 6 movie posters into Zombie Wars. The write up for each of his posters is cool because he points out how he evolved each character over the series (Obi Wan gets zombie infected on the TPM poster and gradually becomes more zombie-like for ATOC, ROTS, and ANH).
http://www.starwars.com/vault/books/news20091012.html
“It’s too big to be a space station!” has new meaning.
In a galaxy far far away (AKA YouTube), Bea Arthur singing in the Star Wars Holiday Special November 17, 1978. That George Lucas!
Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows “Maude” and “The Golden Girls” and who won a Tony Award for the musical “Mame,” died Saturday. She was 86.
Arthur died peacefully at her Los Angeles home with her family at her side, family spokesman Dan Watt said. She had cancer, Watt said, declining to give details.
“She was a brilliant and witty woman,” said Watt, who was Arthur’s personal assistant for six years. “Bea will always have a special place in my heart.”
A live-action TV series set in the “Star Wars” cosmos has been an elusive, tantalizing prospect for years. News of the potential production first surfaced in 2005 while George Lucas was promoting “Revenge of the Sith.” Work on the “Clones Wars” animated feature film and Cartoon Network series, though, took creative precedence. In late 2007, Lucas revealed that he and his team were about to begin writing scripts for the live-action show. Now MTV News has learned that casting for the series is currently underway. During the junket for the Nicolas Cage thriller “Knowing,” star Rose Byrne let slip that Team Lucas is casting a wide net for actors to join the show. “A lot of my friends have been auditioning for it,” she said. According to Lucas, the show will focus on minor characters from the saga and be set in the time period between “Revenge of the Sith” (Episode III) and the original “Star Wars” (Episode IV). The action will follow the Rebel Alliance as it slowly gains strength against the Empire. There will be Stormtroopers, but no Jedi or Darth Vader will appear on screen. As he did with the “Clone Wars” series, Lucas will write and shoot an entire year’s worth of episodes before looking for a cable channel on which to air the series. – From MTV
Actress Calista Flockhart has yet to see the Star Wars films which made fiance Harrison Ford a movie icon – seven years after they began dating.
Ford, 66, became a superstar as space action hero Han Solo in the original George Lucas trilogy, which became a $4.3 billion movie franchise.
The couple, who became engaged on 1 April 2007, have been dating since 2002. And Flockhart, who was still a child at the time the original film debuted in 1977, blames her rural upbringing for never seeing the sci-fi franchise that made her fiance a cult hero.
The 44-year-old actress says, “I was never starstruck (by him). I have not seen Star Wars, isn’t that amazing… I’m sure it is (good). It’s weird that I haven’t seen it. We lived in a small town and the movie theatre was an hour away. And I was 12 – the perfect age to see it.”
Legends of Wrestlemania may very well suck (we hope not), but it’s awesome seeing the list of characters that are going to playable in the new game. There’s 42 legends in all – enjoy the memories just looking at the list:
Andre the Giant
Arn Anderson
Bam Bam Bigelow
Big Boss Man
Big John Studd
Bobby Heenan
Bret Hart
British Bulldog
Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake
Dusty Rhodes
Greg “The Hammer” Valentine
“Hacksaw” Jim Duggan
Honky Tonk Man
Hulk Hogan
Hunter Hearst Helmsley
Jake “The Snake” Roberts
Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart
Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka
Jimmy Hart
Junkyard Dog
Kamala
King Kong Bundy
Koko B. Ware
Michael Hayes
“Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase
Mr. Fuji
Mr. Perfect
Nikolai Volkoff
Paul Bearer
“Ravishing” Rick Rude
Ric Flair
Road Warrior Animal
Road Warrior Hawk
“Rowdy” Roddy Piper
Sgt. Slaughter
Shawn Michaels
“Stone Cold” Steve Austin
The Iron Sheik
The Rock
Ultimate Warrior
Undertaker
Yokozuna
Guild Wars 2 release window has been pushed back to 2010-11 – it was originally set for last year. Maker NCsoft did have some recent layoffs, but nothing major, and sales of other titles have been good. Your guess is as good as ours.
New screen grabs from Star Wars: The Old Republic. Always fun seeing giant slugs.
Finally, upcoming releases for this week include the a few heavy weights, including Street Fighter IV reboot for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, for the PC. Get a rehash of all what’s coming or just check the list below:
Feb. 16
Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride (DS)
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (DS)
Evasive Space (Wii)
Feb. 17
Street Fighter IV (360, PS3)
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned (360)
Martial Arts: Capoeira Fighters (DS, PS2, PSP, Wii)
Roogoo (DS, Wii)
Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer (PC)
Dream Day Anniversary (PC)
Penumbra Collection (PC)
“Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II “(PC)
Disney Sing It! High School Musical 3: Senior Year (PS2, PS3, Wii)
Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? (PSP)
Battle Rage (Wii)
RacePro (360)
Feb. 18
Moomin The Mysterious Howling (DS)
Feb. 19
Noby Noby Boy (PS3)
We can only dream this would have happened in 1985 – it would have saved us from Jar Jar.
Chad takes Commander Wickstrom turkey bowling to illustrate…well…something.
