What would you do if the Death Star and a bunch of other Galactic Empire vehicles showed up in your city? Obviously, you’d just go about your business. Continue jogging, or flying your kite, or protesting against China. Maybe you’d get out your video camera and observe the invasion, as if the spacecraft or AT-ATs were Goodyear blimps or a Cloverfield monster.
I almost feel guilty asking what the point of this video is, because it’s done so well. It looks real enough that I actually kind of fear for my friends in the Bay area. I love this explanation from Topless Robot: “Over the weekend, the Empire invaded San Francisco. I assume that they were looking for the semi-nearby Skywalker Ranch, in order to kill George Lucas after seeing Clone Wars.”
I’ve never even touched a Wii, and I probably won’t change that fact for this new Clone Warsgame, but I can’t wait to watch others playing it. Preferably not at my favorite bar, though, where I recently had to put up with hipsters wearing American Apparel-fashioned tennis costumes for something called Wiimbledon. Fortunately, Star Warsgeeks don’t go to bars to show off their skills; they go to conventions. Of course, I don’t go to conventions, so I may never actually get to watch such a competition.
One thing I have to say about this video game trailer is that I really, really wish there was footage of people playing the game. Both to show me how it works and to provide added entertainment value. And there’s one person that I think Lucasfilm really, really should have hired to appear in such footage:
The new trailer for this summer’s animated feature Star Wars: The Clone Warsisn’t all that exciting. So instead, I bring you this year’s Star Warsdance-off (aka Dancing with the Star Wars Stars) from a recent Star Wars Weekends event held at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. I’d definitely prefer a theatrical release of something like this than a movie that looks like a video game. And who can argue with me? Chewbacca dancing to the theme from Footloose? Princess Leia singing “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” to her mom, Queen Amidala? Darth Vader and troops reliving the video for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”? There’s no way you can say no to that.
This year’s dance numbers were so much better than last year’s disco-themed event, which reminded me too much of the Star Wars Holiday Special. I’ve never before wanted to become a convention-attending, costume-wearing Star Wars geek, but if they have this kind of fun, I might just change my mind.
[via The Movie Blog]
In what is something like the 27th lawsuit to arise from New Line’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate is suing the film studio for $150 million, based on claims that “the trust has not received any of its gross profit participation payments for the three films based on the Lord of the Rings trilogy.” The estate also wants to sever all ties between Tolkien’s works and New Line, which means bye-bye to The Hobbit if the suit is successful.
In more franchise news, the new 3D animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars will debut in theaters this summer before moving to several Turner-owned cable networks in the fall. And for the first time, George Lucas is partnering with Warner Brothers instead of Fox to get his robot drivel works of genius to the masses.
And you thought the reviews of Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead skewed skeevy…Marisa Tomei will play a stripper in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler.
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In what is something like the 27th 
