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The Guy That Turned His Living Room into the Battle of Hoth is Probably More Stoked on ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Than You (VIDEO)

By Ian | February 15, 2013 @ 10:31 am
Hoth under the collar

The guy in the video above is either a serial killer with a lot of time on his hands or he's doing some kind of amazing Andy Kaufman bit that won't be revealed as a joke until long after we're all dead and gone. Either way, he's got some damn fine model-building skills (and bizarre socio-political opinions to discuss as well) as he's turned his living room into a Hoth diorama, creating with exquisite detail a replica of the early battle scene from The Empire Strikes Back.

Check out all the amazing/insane detail (including force-wielding Darth Vader) in images here.

 

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Say Hello to a ‘Confirmed’ Actor in ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ Complete with JJ Abrams-style Lens Flares!

By Ian | February 15, 2013 @ 8:26 am
Acting Solo
We guess at who we want to play Han in the spin-off movie. 10 Photos »

Either by sleeping in a dumpster outside Kathleen Kennedy's house, or by summoning the power of Daisuke, the Japanese shrieking god of invisibility, to haunt the halls of Disney development offices and learn what he can, Latino Review has managed to out-scoop practically everyone on Star Wars Episode VII news since the new trilogy was first announced and now it looks like they've got a whopper. Whether it was the size of the paycheck or the amount of Curmudgeon Juice he was promised, Harrison Ford has finalized a deal to reprise his role as Han Solo in Episode VII.

We had reported back in November before any deals were in place that Ford went on record saying he was down to step back onto the bridge of Millenium Falcon for one more try at that ol' Kessel Run. This despite the fact that he'd spent the better part of the last twenty-five years ripping the role apart. Maybe it was because no one went to see Cowboys & Aliens or maybe because at 70-years-old, he thinks being washed out by lens flares takes ten years off his face, but something got him to change his mind and we couldn't be happier. Now JJ, please, please, I beg you. Let the man shoot first, for the love of God. And keep him away from any fridges.

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William Shatner Isn’t Bitter At All About Not Being Included in ‘Star Trek’ When He Calls JJ Abrams a Pig (VIDEO)

By Ian | February 14, 2013 @ 8:23 am
Shatnered the bed

Well, no, he is. And although as you can see above he was most likely just kidding around, he's not entirely wrong. Sporting a snazzy new hairpiece haircut and giving an interview (which you can watch above) for an animated movie called Escape from Planet Earth, which apparently is a thing that exists, the Shat Man said that he believed JJ Abrams was a 'pig' for accepting directorial duties on Star Wars: Episode VII on top of having already taken over the Star Trek franchise. And you know what, for the first time since Shatner accepted the role of TJ Hooker, I agree with him.

Star Wars and Star Trek aren't supposed to be the same thing. That was sort of the whole point and also why nerds across the globe were able to leave their parents' basements and have arguments across a restaurant table with the dates they met on geek2geekdating.com when they learn that they actually have the tenacity to choose Han Solo over Mr. Spock. Star Trek was never an action franchise. It was about the wonder of exploration and the slow burn of a chess match. The movies were, most of the time, social allegories for complicated times that needed simple metaphors. And even Wrath of Khan, which doesn't seem to be more than a revenge movie is, at heart, about mortality and the fear of growing old. Serious ish, y'all. Read More » »

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Delusional Simon Pegg Assures Us JJ Abrams Will Return to ‘Star Trek’ After ‘Star Wars’ (VIDEO)

By Ian | February 12, 2013 @ 11:22 am
Beam me up, JJ.

While out at the BAFTAs over the weekend, Absolute Radio got a hold of Simon Pegg on the red carpet and posed him a few questions about his new film At World's End, the third film in his Cornetto Trilogy with Nick Frost, but most of the questions asked surrounded this spring's Star Trek Into Darkness. Pegg remained pretty tight-lipped on the details but had one definite thing to say and that was that JJ Abrams was assuredly returning to direct a third Star Trek after his directorial duties on Star Wars: Episode VII.

'He will do Star Trek 3,' the man who plays a much-thinner version of Scotty told reporters. 'JJ's the perfect choice for (Star Wars) I just hope he doesn't forget us Trekkies in the corner.' While Episode VII isn't slated to come out until 2015, considering how long it took to get Star Trek 2 up and about following the first film, there will still probably be plenty of time for Abrams to return to lens the third film sometime around 2020.

WHAT 'STAR WARS' CHARACTERS DESERVE THEIR OWN SPIN-OFF FILMS?
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Lawrence Kasdan Kind Of Sticks It to George Lucas When Talking About New ‘Star Wars’ Films

By Ian | February 12, 2013 @ 8:26 am
Kasdan takes his first steps into a larger world...Again.

Talk about a Big Chill (get it? because that was the name of Kasdan's....eh, nevermind). While giving an interview to IGN about what his role as producer and writer of the new Star Wars movies will entail, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi co-writer Lawrence Kasdan kind of passive aggressively made sure to let everyone know that he thinks the prequels are garbage too.

I was pleased that there would be new ones, that there was a chance to capture some of the spirit of the original trilogy that I'd worked on. I thought there's an audience out there — my grandchildren, lots of original Star Wars people — and there always will be. It's only good that we try to do some more great ones. Read More » »

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Is Disney Going To Make Han Solo: The Movie? And Will it Involve Scruffy-Looking Nerf Herders?

By Jack Tomas | February 7, 2013 @ 8:19 am
Making Movies Ain't Like dustin' Crops, Boy

Could one of the new stand alone Star Wars film be a movie about Han Solo? That's the latest rumor swirling around the geekverse. We reported a couple of days ago that Harry Knowles of Ain't it Cool News reported that his sources say that one of the stand alone Star Wars titles will follow the adventures of everyone's favorite green rubber Muppet, Yoda. Disney chairman Bob Iger confirmed that the company is developing several Star Wars films apart from the new episodes VII, VIII, IX trilogy. Iger also said that Lawrence Kasdan, the guy who wrote The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, is penning one of these non-trilogy films.

If there is a Han Solo movie, the speculation is that it would take place between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope when Solo was just a young scoundrel. Hopefully they won't make him a kid, because honestly did anyone really want to see little boy Darth Vader? No. A fairly well known backstory not mentioned in the films is that the reason Chewbacca follows Han around like a giant arm-ripping dog is that a young Solo saved him from slavery and death at the hands of the Empire. Read More » »

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Hello Say You To the Star of the First ‘Star Wars’ Spinoff Movie

By Ian | February 5, 2013 @ 11:27 am
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Harry Knowles over at Aint It Cool News is reporting that he has inside information linking Yoda as the first Star Wars universe character to given his own spinoff movie now that Disney owns Lucasfilm. And just in case you've forgotten, Knowles also wrote this glowing review of Attack of the Clones, praising the film's romance, dialogue exchanges and then wrote with contempt for people who hated the inane plot of the film because us idiots thought 'it was just too convoluted. Too dense. Too complicated to get' and thank God he was here to 'explain very easily what is going on here.' A decade later and that still gets under my skin.

So while I won't ever trust a review that comes from him, he is very good at breaking a story and so if he is saying that Kathleen Kennedy's Star Wars slate outside of the new sequel trilogy will be a Yoda-focused film, I'll believe him. No word yet of course when it will be set, but I just hope (probably idiotically), that they'll bring back the muppet version. Or at least a hybrid puppet/cgi creation like they did with Where the Wild Things Are. I just can't look at another CGI-rendering of the Jedi master again. What Star Wars ancillary characters do you want see get their own film? Check out the gallery for a few of our favorites.

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