BRICK “Maybe I’ll just sit here and bleed at you.” … you presumably like great movies. Which means the news that Rian Johnson is reportedly going to write and direct the next two Star Wars movies—taking over for J.J. Abrams once 2015’s Episode VII is done—should be exciting for you, too, not just for Star […]
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Why the Star Wars Casting Is Important
Between the “SUPER SECRET SPOILER PICS FROM THE SET!” and the casting announcements (including today’s, featuring Lupita Nyong’o and Gwendoline Christie), the Star Wars publicity machine is starting to ramp up—by December of next year, there’s going to be frenzy surrounding the film that will build expectations to levels so high that no film could […]
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EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT: I’m Going to Be In the Next Star Wars Movie!
That’s how this works, right? I chipped in $10 (as cool as some of the rewards are, they are clearly targeted at filthy billionaires who will be first against the wall when the revolution comes), and I expect that I will hear from J.J. Abrams very soon that, against all odds, I have won and […]
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Legislators Might Be Over the CRC, But the Governor’s Not
Gov. John Kitzhaber continues to push a murky Oregon-led version of the Columbia River Crossing, despite increasing evidence Oregon lawmakers are no longer interested. Kitzhaber just released an open letter to Senate President Peter Courtney and Speaker of the House Tina Kotek, urging them to flog the Oregon-led proposal on to passage in the short […]
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Dark Horse Says So Long to Star Wars
Dark Horse’s Star Wars #12 A little over a year ago, when Disney bought Star Wars, it was one of the first questions we asked: How would the acquisition affect local publisher Dark Horse Comics, which has been putting out Star Wars comics for over two decades? Given that Disney also owns Marvel Comics, the […]
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Dept. of Corrections: What I Really Want for Xmas
Hey, you guys are Americans, right? Which means you’re spending all day today foaming at your fat mouths and gnashing your rotten teeth as your frantic, sunlight-averse eyes desperately seek out any and all deals, deals, DEALS, right? Hopefully you’re shopping for me, with your copies of “The Mercury‘s Holiday Wish List” clutched in your […]
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John Williams Makes Everything Better
There was a lot of Star Wars hype over the weekend, as Star Wars Celebration Europe—like a comic convention, or Comic-Con, but with nothing except Star Wars stuff allowed, lest you want to be beaten by a thousand plastic lightsabers grasped in a thousand frail, shaking arms—proceeded to carpet-bomb nerds with stingy hints about Episode […]
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Win a Copy of William Shakespeare’s Star Wars!
Tonight at 7 at Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing (3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd), Portland writer Ian Doescher will be reading from his book William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, which takes George Lucas’ original 1977 film and turns it into something that might’ve been produced in the 17th century. It’s impressively clever, it’s in iambic […]
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The Ruins of Tatooine
Rä Di Martino TODAY IN STAR WARS NEWS: The most meaningful Star Wars news today is that good ol’ Star Wars Kid—who’s now 25 years old, which means his name is slightly out of date—is speaking out against bullying. Man. People were dicks to Star Wars Kid, which just seems insane to me. So good […]
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RIP, LucasArts
From Day of the Tentacle In news that’s hardly surprising—but still pretty depressing, at least for a guy like me, who started playing videogames in the ’90s—Disney has shut down LucasArts, the videogame division of LucasFilm. After acquiring LucasFilm for billions of billions of billions of dollars and then instantly greenlighting a slew of new […]
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Old Man Solo
Please, please write the earring into the script Via Latino Review and Fox News Latino (Fox News Latino? Okay!) comes an unconfirmed report that Harrison Ford will be reprising his role as Han Solo in the new Star Wars movies. (The thing I like best about the video where that news is revealed is the […]
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Barry Wants to Show You His Diorama
“Nothing really lets everybody know that you’re quite the ladies’ man than having a massive Hoth dio right in your house. That’s what the ladies look for. The big, big Hoth dio. Fortunately I’ve got that.” Via Geekologie, via io9. The pictures are impressive, ladies.