Origins: What Influences Scott Pilgrim Director Edgar Wright
It isn’t every day you get to interview someone like Edgar Wright – someone so interesting, insightful, inspired. This guy clearly loves movies. He loves to watch them, to make them, to think about them, to talk about them. And after spending 45 minutes on the phone with him, I can already tell: This is the kind of dude you want to …
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Deleted ROTJ Scene Surfaces
Don’t expect this video to last too much longer on YouTube.
Video has surfaced from today’s Star Wars Blu-ray box set announcement and it’s a doozy. The scene was thought to have been lost forever but it shows Luke in a cave putting the finishing touches on his green lightsaber.
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Lego’s Empire Strikes Back Tribute
Techland alum Tracey John is down in Orlando covering Celebration V and just posted this photo to her Twitter account. Lego announced earlier this week that CV goers had the opportunity to help build a mystery 8-foot tall, 15-foot wide mural and it looks like it’s all finished. Builders were given one of 10,000 limited edition white Boba …
Jon Stewart Gets His Own Star Wars Action Figure
Aside from the Blu-ray unveil during The Main Event at Celebration V in Orlando earlier today; George Lucas presented Jon Stewart with a one of a kind 3.75-inch Jon Stewart Stormtrooper action figure from Hasbro. Stewart’s figure comes with two interchangeable heads – one with a goatee and one without.
Star Wars Episodes I-VI Out on Blu-ray in 2011
Lucasfilm announced today at Celebration V during “The Main Event” that both trilogies will be bundled and released in a Blu-ray box set in the fall of 2011. The HD box set will include “documentaries, vintage behind-the-scenes moments, interviews, retrospectives and never-before-seen footage” from the archives at Lucasfilm.
“Blu-ray …
The Daily Dose
Friday, August 13th, 2010 – AHHHHH!
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Up Front:
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Adaptation: Comparing The Comic & The Movie [MTV]
Gadgets:
Desire Of Pay TV Distributors To Be Gatekeepers To Broadband & Tablets Could Increase Programming Coasts [LA Times]
Extremely Thin, 3G-Capable …
5 Things to Know to Before Seeing Scott Pilgrim
Rejoice, fellow nerds! The Beating Up of Evil Exes is upon us. Now, all you loyal Techland readers know the breadth and depth of all things Scott Pilgrim by now, thanks to our exhaustive coverage of the Comic-Con mania, the graphic novels, the video game, the app and the animated short.
(More on Techland: Maybe If You Knew the …
Batwoman Returns This November
Batwoman may have disappeared from Detective Comics a few months ago, but fans won’t be left without the award-winning other Dark Knight Detective for too long; DC has just announced that the character will reappear in Batwoman #0, a special issue trailing a brand-new series, released in November.
The new series will be co-written by …
Figures Sold Separately: Relive Your Star Wars Toy Commercial Youth
If you’re American and of a certain age, then your childhood was probably filled with Kenner’s Star Wars toys, and your memories filled with the commercials for them, which promised thrills, spills and lots of people to play with, even if batteries weren’t included. From the austere, uncertain beginnings of the Early Bird promotion and …