image via News coming in from around the nerdternets: J.J. Abrams is closing in on a deal to direct the next Star Wars movie. (WHAAAAA???!!!?!1) Disney isn’t confirming anything yet, but hey, the Hollywood Reporter is pretty reliable, right? Sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter that the Star Trek director is negotiating to direct Episode […]
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Get Ready for Slow-Mo Lightsabers
Ah, Zack Snyder! He’s made some “eh, they’re alright” movies (Watchmen, Dawn of the Dead), some “wow, that was jaw-droppingly terrible” movies (Owls of Gahoohleheiehy, Sucker Punch), and, to his credit, a film that did even more than Brokeback Mountain to make mainstream American audiences sort-of-a-little-bit more comfortable with homoerotic imagery (300). Next up, he’ll […]
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Merry Christmas, Here, Let Me Ruin Christmas
Merry Christmas, John Bongiovi.
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Nobody Wants to Direct Star Wars :(
STEVEN SPIELBERG “Ha! Oh shit, George! ‘Midichlorians’? Good one!” So this is weird. Nobody wants to direct Star Wars. “No! No! It’s not my genre. It’s my best friend George’s genre.” —Steven Spielberg, who has, weirdly, directed many, many films in Star Wars‘ genre, and who once upon a time really, really wanted to direct […]
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POINT/COUNTERPOINT! Star Wars Finally Escapes Abusive Father
STAR WARS Thanks for dressing up for the photo, George. Sick of everybody talking about Disney buying Lucasfilm yet? WE DON’T CARE. In the closest the Mercury will ever get to publishing a “think piece,” Blogtown’s Alex Falcone and Senior Editor Erik Henriksen have decided to discuss the future of Star Wars, a series made […]
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Disney Buys Lucasfilm and Plans to Make Star Wars: Episode VII. How Will This Affect Local Publisher Dark Horse Comics?
For a long time, the only thing holding Disney back from complete world domination was the fact that none of its properties—no matter how hard they tried—appealed to the weirdly all-important demographic of adolescent males. With their acquisition of Marvel a few years ago, Disney made a massive stride in getting around that obstacle (hello, […]
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Your Terrible PR Quote of the Day for Monday, October 8, 2012
“People seem to instinctively know what to do when handed a lightsaber or a bird in a slingshot, so this is a natural combination.” —Colum Slevin, Vice President, Head of Studio Operations for Lucasfilm Ltd., discussing the forthcoming Angry Birds Star Wars
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The Star Wars Anime You Didn’t Know You Wanted
One of my dumb coworkers who shall not be named* has been going on and on for years and years about how they should remake Star Wars as an anime, which I have always taken as a conversational cue to look off into the middle distance and start thinking about something else until he tuckers […]
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Nerd Dads Are the Best Dads
Danny Furrow-Kiebler is five years old and really, really likes Star Wars. His dad, Rob Furrow-Kiebler, just came back from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. Danny didn’t know he was coming back. Rob showed up at Danny’s birthday party. As a jedi. With stormtroopers. And Princess Leia. And a wookiee. This is great. Via […]
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Nostalgia for Something That Never Existed
I would like to play this game. That’s Han Solo Adventures, a fan-made game that developer Stacy Davidson has been working on single-handedly for a few years—it’s modeled after old LucasArts titles like 1992’s great Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, but, you know. Han Solo. Davidson says he’s working on getting it finished […]