When Lucasfilm and Disney announced that they would be wrapping up The Clone Wars animated series at the end of this season, they also announced that they would be providing bonus content after the end of the series. Sources inside Lucasfilm Animation have told TheForce.net that this bonus content would be story arcs from the planned sixth season of the show but wouldn’t be providing the resolution and closure that many fans would have liked.
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Yes, some wonderful person has combined two of the internet’s favourite things into one glorious gallery. It’s Game of Thrones characters and their feline equivalents. Because cats are awesome (though don’t let my dog know I said that) and so is Game of Thrones. Source: askshiva
We’ve gotten plenty of trailers for this summer’s reboot sequel Star Trek Into Darkness but, for the first time, we have some clues as to the plot of the movie.
The newly released international trailer for Into Darkness gives a bit more insight into Benedict Cumberbatch’s still nameless character and how Kirk and the Enterprise get involved.
Is it possible that it wasn’t Rebel Alliance pilot Luke Skywalker didn’t destroy the Death Star with a perfectly aimed torpedo from an outdated X-Wing fighter? Is it possible that the destruction of the Death Star was an inside job that went all the way up the Empire to Darth Vader?
YouTuber Graham Putnam examines the possibility in this Loose Change style documentary. Even though it has several factual errors, it’s still a pretty neat video.
For many years, fans of the cult hit TV series Veronica Mars have been clamouring for a movie to continue the series. The script for the movie has been ready since around 2008 as series creator Rob Thomas had been working on the movie since the show was cancelled in 2007. However, the movie has been pushed back due to a lack of funding and support from the studios.
Now, thanks to Kickstarter and the power of crowd funding, it looks like the Veronica Mars movie will become a reality. Thomas took to Kickstarter looking for $2 million to get the movie made and came up with it in under ten hours.
On Monday, Lucasfilm announced what they called a “new direction” for their animation division. Unfortunately for fans of Lucasfilm Animation, the direction that Disney has set appears to effectively close down Lucasfilm Animation.
In an announcement posted on StarWars.com, Lucasfilm announced that they would be “winding up” The Clone Wars animated series and indefinitely postponing the Detours series that was in production with the team behind Robot Chicken.
As expected, the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney marked the end of The Clone Wars run on The Cartoon Network. However, it was expected that a Disney network would pick up the series from starting from this fall. Lucasfilm seems to have decided that the critically acclaimed series will finish its run on TV this season.
The announcement did leave open the possibility of “bonus content,” possibly in the form of webisodes, to wrap up The Clone Wars’ story. Sounds to me that this season’s finale wasn’t planned as a series finale and a few loose ends will still have to be tied up.
As for Star Wars: Detours, Lucasfilm felt that the series wouldn’t fit with the direction that the new trilogy is taking. In other words, don’t expect the humour of the old trilogies to be in episodes seven through nine. I’d guess that this is our first official indication that the new trilogy is going in a darker or more serious direction.
What’s next for Lucasfilm Animation? The company says “We are exploring a whole new Star Wars series set in a time period previously untouched in Star Wars films or television programming.” No one quite knows what that means but safe money says that it’s going to be a prequel of sorts to the upcoming film trilogy.
Source: Star Wars – A New Direction for Lucasfilm Animation
While first-person melee combat doesn’t quite work in video games, especially in Star Wars: Jedi Knight series because all the cool moves are in third-person mode, it does work in YouTube videos. The crew over at The Stunt People put together this lightsaber duel between Darth Vader and a Jedi from the first-person perspective. I’d say this is almost as good as the action from the prequel trilogy.
In 1972 , a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem… if no one else can help… and if you can find them… maybe you can hire… The A-Team.
Readers of the New York Times would have justified in looking over their shoulder like a mad man while searching for the source of an unexpected shadow on their Wednesday morning paper. That’s because the shadow wasn’t real but an ad for season three of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Read the rest of this entry
It’s probably not a surprise that I’d be a fan of the recently concluded Fox drama House. Between Dr. House’s general curmudgeon-ness and Hugh Laurie being Hugh Laurie, it’s pretty easy to see why I’d like the show. Beside’s a little bit of Laurie, I thought the theme song by Massive Attack was pretty good. I think I used it once or twice on my university radio talk show.
Anyway, electronic musician j.viewz recently produced his own unique take on the song. It’s not a remix per se. It’s Teardrop performed using fruit and vegetables from his neighbourhood grocery store.
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